OK, so that’s perhaps a little grandiose. But Cities XL from publishers Monte Cristo is shaping up to a be a business-model-busting game. At heart, it’s a sim game in the vein of Sim City 4. Take...

Facial animation middleware provider ImageMetrics has closed a $6.5 million funding round led by Saffron Hill Ventures, according to TechCrunch. Great new for the guys, but also good news for people who want to see the cost...

Shame it’s not very good. T-Enterprise have been incredibly quick of the mark making a Flash game based on the Iraqi reporter who threw a shoe at George W. Bush. (if you haven’t seen the clip, it’s...

I’m sorry to bang out about Unity, I really am. But back when I was a callow youth, I remember a moment when I thought the computer game business would change forever. It was an ECTS in...

OK, I admit that this is wild speculation. Last week (sorry for the delay, I’ve been busy), Atari announced that it had acquired Cryptic Studios. Cryptic have been successful in designing MMOs. They developed City of Heroes/Villains for...

According to a report in Edge, developer Factor 5 has made 37 staff redundant. The redundancies represent half the staff, leaving 38 employees still working at the San Rafael, California company. Factor 5 has developed a long...

Midway has cut 180 jobs, representing 25% of global headcount. The company will close its Austin development studio and make redundancies in Chicago, San Diego and Austin. The layoffs follow a headcount reduction of 90 in August...