The team at Crunching Koalas have just launched a Pay What You Want scheme for their new game, Mousecraft. The title is described as a cross between Lemmings and Tetris: “MouseCraft is a tile-matching puzzle game where...

You might that if Activision suddenly announced a major payoff, it was rewarding shareholders for supporting it as it built Call of Duty and Skylanders into two of the strongest franchises in the industry. (I leave out...

Microsoft has messed up its DRM strategy. It did so because it thought that getting big publishers on board was more important than impressing customers, and it was prepared to bet that high-quality content would drive purchases,...

Joystiq reports that free-to-play games won’t require PlayStation Plus for online multiplayer. Sony Worldwide Studios President Shuhei told Joystiq, “As far as free-to-play games are concerned, it’s the publisher’s decision whether they put it inside or outside...

I’m still catching up on all the news and analysis from the E3 reveals of the new consoles yesterday, but this is my current thinking. Both console manufacturers need to get a large installed base. Although both...

Over at Eurogamer, Tristan Donovan has written a marvellous piece on the crowd-funding experience of Slightly Mad Games. In an nutshell: the company has raised over £2 million from consumers to fund their game. It says this...