At Develop 2010, Alice Taylor of Channel 4, fresh (!) from collecting the Publishing Hero award for Channel 4 at the Develop Awards, offered a profound piece of advice to games developers and publishers. A licence is...

At Develop in Brighton, Johnny Minkley of Eurogamer TV hosted a panel of 2 PR-types (Simon Byron of Premier PR and Hugo Bustillos from Sony) and two journalists (Tim Edwards, editor of PC Gamer and Rory Buckeridge,...

Independent developer Ready at Dawn has made 13 staff redundant. The official announcement on its website reads: We’ve spent the majority of our time at RAD hiring the best and most talented people to join our team....

Take Two is focusing on profitability in the years when it doesn’t have a Grand Theft Auto release and is trimming headcount, says GamaSutra. Last week, Take Two made 20 game developers redundant at Firaxis. This week,...

Welcome to the eighth in a series of 12 posts from games developers who have taken the brave step into self-publishing. They have all contributed to How to Publish a Game, and you can get the first...

Now that the UK Coalition government has nixed tax breaks for the video games industry, perhaps it is time to step back and ask what the objectives of video game tax breaks were – and whether they...

Regular readers of GAMESbrief will know that I expect Apple to repeat its doomed experiment of the 1980s/1990s when it believed that tight integration of software and hardware, superb design and an iron control of the platform...