The Black Swan – The Impact of the Highly Improbable Could there be a better time to read The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb‘s enjoyable discourse on probability and humanity’s blindness to it? It’s a book that...

THQ has today announced a restructuring plan that will lead to the loss of 250 jobs. The bulk of the redundancies will occur in product development. Added to the GameOverZone.

Wild Tangent is shutting its internal development studio, with the loss of 2o jobs. CEO and Founder Alex St John is also stepping aside. Mike Peronto will become CEO leaving St John as chairman and evangelist for...

A TechCrunch article on Friday talks about Facebook’s need to seek new capital, together with an estimated breakdown of costs. Bandwidth: $500,000 per month Electricity: $1 million per month Storage: $4 million + per month, simply in...

Following my post about takeover speculation surrounding Eidos, Warner has changed its statement. According to Gamesindustry.biz, the company said: “Warner Bros. notes that it intends to acquire shares in SCi if and when it considers appropriate, subject...

Citing the “uncertain economic climate”, John Riccitiello, CEO of EA, today announced that EA will be reducing headcount by approximately 6% (600 people by our estimates) by the end of March 2009. The redundancies are expected to...

Slightly off-topic, but Huddle is one of my clients. They make collaboration software that is easily available on the web, allowing people to share documents, tasks, workflow and more across multiple sites. The basic service is free,...