This is the kind of story that will make old-school developers misty-eyed for the days when they could conceive, develop, code and publish a game from their teenage bedrooms. Developer Ethan Nicholas works at Sun Microsystems. In...

Kotaku has unearthed a US Department of Labor injunction alleging that Sensory Sweep has not paid its staff $2 million in back pay. With over three months pay owing, and an injunction preventing the shipping of a...

GamaSutra is reporting that Washington-based Aces Studio has seen substantial layoffs as part of Microsoft’s restructuring. Aces Studio is responsible for MS Flight Simulator, one of the longest-running franchises in the games industry. The studio is also...

Develop reports that Eidos has closed its Rockpool Studios in Manchester. The company was acquired in 2007 to bolster Eidos’s activities in casual and mobile. Arguably Rockpool didn’t fit into Eidos’s new studio-led, IP-centric strategy and is...

It’s been a hard week in the technology sector: Sony announced it would make an operating loss of $3 billion in the year to March 2009 which, suggests the FT, means that the company is bleeding about...

Jonathan Guthrie wrote in the Financial Times earlier this week about phoenix companies. Phoenix companies take advantage of UK insolvency laws by doing pre-pack deals with administrators. The directors realise that the company is insolvent and have...

Linden Labs has acquired two virtual goods business within Second Life. The companies (OnRez and Xstreet SL) offer Web-based marketplaces that sell custom skins and kit for ingame avatars. For example, you buy a skin to make...