From TechCrunch’s elevator pitch comes news of ValuValu, a Seattle start-up that aims to bring sophisticated revenue-management techniques to the selling of video games. Founded by 2 former Microsoft employees, the site is based on the same...

Clay Shirky is my favourite Web 2.0 thinker (his piece on the cognitive surplus should be required reading for anyone thinking about how to engage consmers in the Web 2.0 era). His latest post discusses the futility...

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,...

Linden Labs has acquired two virtual goods business within Second Life. The companies (OnRez and Xstreet SL) offer Web-based marketplaces that sell custom skins and kit for ingame avatars. For example, you buy a skin to make...