Some people think it’s in bad taste; the majority seem to think it’s pretty cool. Personally, I think it’s incredibly damaging to the perception of business at a time when, frankly, we need to remember that business...

Eidos has parted company with Gimme5Games, the remnants of Morpheme, the mobile and casual games studio run Matt Spall they acquired in April 2007. The transaction, following the closure of Rockpool (acquired in February 2007), means that...

Following its acquisition of Reflexive last year, Amazon has launched its own games download portal. Amazon’s games download service, which is in beta and currently appears to be available only in the US, offers a range of casual,...

This is the kind of story that will make old-school developers misty-eyed for the days when they could conceive, develop, code and publish a game from their teenage bedrooms. Developer Ethan Nicholas works at Sun Microsystems. In...

OffRoad Velociraptor Safari has spawned a sequel on the iPhone. I’ve blogged before about this game, written on the Unity engine, which showcases how developers are making cool 3D games in a browser, but the revenue model...

In a blog post today, Roman Nouzareth announced that Cafe.com had sold digital distribution specialist Boonty to Nexway. Boonty was the original business of Cafe.com, founded in 2001 to offer digital downloads of premium games. The plan...

Ben Parfitt over at CasualGaming.biz has an interesting post on the much-delayed launch of Playstation Home. He describes it as “one of biggest potential casual gaming platforms ever released” but then goes on to point out the...