Square Enix this morning launched a recommended all-cash offer for Eidos, the beleagured British games publisher. The offer is priced at 32 pence a share, valuing Eidos at £84 million. This represents a premium of 129% over yesterday’s...

We’re picking up rumours about layoffs at NCSoft in Brighton. It’s unclear if it is simply the result of the restructuring announced in September last year, which put 60 development jobs “at risk”, or it is something...

Clay Shirky is my favourite Web 2.0 thinker (his piece on the cognitive surplus should be required reading for anyone thinking about how to engage consmers in the Web 2.0 era). His latest post discusses the futility...

Tickemaster and LiveNations are to combine in a $2.5 billion merger. Ticketmaster (NASDAQ: TKTM) is the largest ticketing service in the US while Live Nation (NYSE: LYV) provides artist management, venue ownership and event promotion, and is the...

Eidos has parted company with Gimme5Games, the remnants of Morpheme, the mobile and casual games studio run Matt Spall they acquired in April 2007. The transaction, following the closure of Rockpool (acquired in February 2007), means that...

In a self-flagellatory announcement where it admits it “failed to swiftly respond to sharp changes in the business conditions, is expected to record substantial operating losses in its amusement facilities business and consumer business in two...

TechCrunch is reporting on a rumour that Nokia is about to launch its own version of the AppStore for phones that use the Symbian OS. It is expected to be announced during the Mobile World Congress in...