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.

Viacom has just won a pivotal legal battle which may spell the end of anonymity on the web. In a landmark decision, a US judge in a federal court in New York has ruled that Google must...

Playfish, the social games company, has raised an additional $1 million from Accel Partners. Playfish is a new breed of Internet games company. Unlike traditional web games businesses, you can’t play games on their site: their games...

Take-Two has confirmed that it is “consulting with staff about potential redundancies at Venom”. I’m adding 30 staff to the Job Loss Tracker and moving Venom to the Game Over Zone.

Slightly off topic, but I’ve had a letter published in the Financial Times today. After Michael Skapinker wrote a piece discussing the role of jargon, I commented that in sailing, jargon has a very useful place, allowing...

Roleplayers (and by extension, many core gamers) are a difficult breed to please. Bring out a new sequel with improved game mechanics and you’re a rapacious publisher who is only out to screw the consumer; don’t bring...

A new report from SharpBrains, Inc states that brain exercise games generated over $225 million of sales in the US alone in 2007. Since the category seems to have been invented by Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training which...