The Financial Times has reported a rumour that German browser game company Bigpoint has appointed investment bankers and is considering a sale. The report (written by Mergermarkets, a news service aimed at investment bankers, and behind a...

I posted yesterday that Ankama was making €210 million a year in revenue from Dofus. Boy, was I wrong. By a factor of 5. In my defence, I said it was 4x higher than any previous estimate...

CORRECTION: Boy, was this figure out. Further research suggests that the company’s revenue is nearer €30-40 million. You can see my revised estimate for Dofus revenues here. * * * Eurogamer reports from the Ankama Convention in...

I’ve just been digging through the past five years of Jagex’s financial results. Being English, the company has to file its accounts at Companies House, which means that we get a great insight into their numbers. (American...

Oh dear. The Guardian has gone and got me all steamed up. Normally, that’s the job of the Daily Mail. In a blog post this morning entitled EA unveil … Fifa Farmville?, Guardian blogger Jack Arnott reports...

A recent survey by commissioned by PlaySpan and reported by GigaOm says that 12% of Americans have spent real-world money on virtual goods in the last 12 months. There are some interesting takeaways: The biggest categories of...

The casual market is changing fast, and Real Networks’ recent actions suggest that the “freemium” model is rapidly replacing the “try-before-you-buy” model that has bedevilled the casual games sector for a decade. According to Venturebeat, RealNetworks is...