Kotaku has unearthed a US Department of Labor injunction alleging that Sensory Sweep has not paid its staff $2 million in back pay. With over three months pay owing, and an injunction preventing the shipping of a...

Develop reports that Eidos has closed its Rockpool Studios in Manchester. The company was acquired in 2007 to bolster Eidos’s activities in casual and mobile. Arguably Rockpool didn’t fit into Eidos’s new studio-led, IP-centric strategy and is...

Jonathan Guthrie wrote in the Financial Times earlier this week about phoenix companies. Phoenix companies take advantage of UK insolvency laws by doing pre-pack deals with administrators. The directors realise that the company is insolvent and have...

MCV reports that Australian games distributor Red Ant has called in the administrators. It is not clear how many jobs have been lost or at risk. It joins UK distributors EUK and Pinnacle in the GameOverZone.

MCV reports that Circuit City is to close 567 stores in the United States. 30,000 jobs will be lost as the US’s second-biggest consumer electronics retailer shuts down. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in...

Details remain obscure, and sources anonymous, but light is gradually being shed on the apparent closure of Pandemic’s Brisbane arm, as reported earlier in the week. The new info is broadly in two areas: what went wrong,...

Gusto Games has closed its Derby studio, making all 14 staff redundant. The layoffs don’t affect Gusto’s main office in Banbury. 14 jobs added to the Job Loss Tracker.