Free Radical Entertainment went into administration on 19th December and confirmed last Friday that 140 out of 185 jobs were to go. Cameron Gunn of Resolve Partners has been appointed as administrator of the fiercely independent studio, which...

On Christmas Eve, when entertainment retailers should be raking it in, Zavvi has entered administration, putting 3,400 jobs at risk. The proximate cause is the collapse of EUK. Zavvi is believed to have owed the distributor (owned...

Publisher Aspyr has made 30 staff redundant. The company, based in Austin, Texas, has reduced headcount by as much as a third. Added to the Job Loss Tracker.

In an update to a previously announced round of redundancies, Electronic Arts has announced it will be reducing its workforce by 10%, raising the redundancy total to 1,000. Restructuring charges will increase to $55-65 million with planned...

Following recent news of redundancies at Factor 5, sources suggest that the studio may have closed its doors entirely. While there has been no official statement, Shacknews and IGN are both reporting that Factor 5 has closed,...

Good Old Games (www.gog.com) has just announced that you can download Beneath a Steel Sky for free. Completely. If you haven’t come across Gog.com, it’s a DRM-free portal for downloading high-quality games of yesteryear. Games like Fallout...

Ben Parfitt over at CasualGaming.biz has an interesting post on the much-delayed launch of Playstation Home. He describes it as “one of biggest potential casual gaming platforms ever released” but then goes on to point out the...