I’ve just returned from two days in extremely sunny Brighton at the Develop Conference. The conference is a great gathering place for UK development with a fantastic range of luminaries and senior developers. It remains, for me,...

Be very careful what you write on Facebook. A London man who created a set of ficititious, malicious entries about Mathew Firsht has just been ordered to pay £22,000 in damages. Grant Raphael fell out with his...

I’ve just written a new article over at casualgaming.biz on the cognitive surplus. An enormous, untapped, and above all free, resource to create content, and potentially the biggest societal shift since the Industrial Revolution. Don’t believe me?...

I made myself unpopular with the new Eidos management earlier this year with a couple of articles I wrote for MCV (see links below) on the trials and tribulations on the BritSoft champion. I’ve just been on...

Gamejacket is a new company that offer an innovative way for casual games developers to generate revenue. Developers upload the game to GameJacket and get back a wrapped file. That wrapped file is freely distributable and hosted...

A surprise profit’s warning from ValueClick, an online advertising network, and troubles at Ebay are the latest harbingers of difficult times ahead for the online advertising market. According to the Financial Times, ValueClick saw its share price...

Eidos has confirmed that it will be closing Conflict developer Pivotal. 95 staff have been made redundant immediately, 10-12 will be remaining in Bath to work on special projects. Added to the Job Loss Tracker.