It’s been a terrible week for games employees at Microsoft, and like most of the analyst class, my heart goes out to all the people affected through no fault of their own. Over on LinkedIn, Joe Ferencz...

The press is full of news that Microsoft is about to drop between $2 billion and $2.5 billion on Mojang, the company behind Minecraft that is majority-owned by Marcus Persson, also known as Notch. I think it...

Welcome to the tenth 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

Fanboys are at it again. The Xbox page on Wikipedia currently leads with “The Xbox is a crappy system that sucks compared to the sony Playstation 3″. It’s only been up for 10 minutes. Let’s see how...

In the latest issue of MCV, Don Mattrick and John Shappert talk about hitting the $1 billion revenue barrier for Xbox Live. The stats were originally announced at E3, but there was some interesting colour: There are...