Last year, Disney bought Lucasfilm from George Lucas, bringing the Star Wars franchise under the Disney umbrella. Yesterday, they killed LucasArts, the inhouse development studio responsible for seminal games such as X-Wing, The Secret of Monkey Island...

What a difference a week makes. Last month, I wrote a blog post saying how I viewed the future of games in three parts: AAA blockbusters (the “movie” model”), persistent ongoing games (the “television” model) and independents....

I was reading the TechCrunch report of Disney’s acquisition of Playdom and this comment leaped out at me: “The sad truth is that 90% of employees got nothing immediately from this deal. 90% of Playdom employees joined...

The acquisition of Playdom by Disney is all about exploiting Disney’s IP on social plafforms. But will it work? Disney has paid $563.2 million, mainly in cash, plus a $200 million earnout for Playdom. that’s a total...

The content versus distribution argument may be as old as the media industry. But does the Disney acquisition of Marvel for $4 billion return content to the ascendancy. Barely a decade ago, Marvel was bankrupt. But it...

Disney has announced 50 layoffs in its US development team, according to Develop. Vancouver studio Propaganda is to lay off 30 staff Two Utah-based studios, Avalanche and Fall Line, are to consolidate with the loss of 20...