Social gaming company Zynga is reported to be making substantial revenues, and possible even be profitable, from its games on social networks. Venturebeat reports that “it’s making between $50 million and $60 million annually in revenue, mostly...

AppData and InsideSocialGames track the most popular games on Facebook and MySpace on a rolling monthly basis. The chart (embedded below) makes an interesting read.

In a sign that social games companies are taking gameplay design ever more seriously, SGN has hired Eric Lindstrom as Chief Creative Officer. Lindstrom was creative director and principal designer of Tomb Raider Underworld and story designer, screenplay...

I reported on the imminent IPO of Changyou earlier in the week, and it appears to have gone well. Chris Nuttall of the FT saysthat the Changyou IPO priced at the top of the range ($16), and...

I read an article in the FT on the Square/Eidos merger that started “Unloved by investors, demonised by the tabloids, sidelined by the government but adored by teenage boys”. It was sufficiently cliched that I was upset,...

Crush Digital appears to have gone bust before it released its first game. GamesIndustry.biz reports that the Nottingham studio has appointed Cameron Gunn of ReSolve Partners as administrator. (You may remember him from the recent administration of...

Opening weekends are a staple of Hollywood reporting, and Activision is getting in on the act. The World at War Map for Call of Duty 4 had “more than one million downloads… during its first weekend of...