Will the government ever stop using lazy, knee-jerk cliches when considering the games industry? The latest furore is a Change4Life ad published in women’s lifestyle magazines Star, Reveal and Heat, and revealed in MCV today. The ad,...

Eidos announced today that they were lowering their full-year revenue expectations by £20m due to their latest Lara Croft game, Tomb Raider Underworld, selling less than expected (it has sold 1.5 million units to date globally). Apart from...

On Christmas Eve, when entertainment retailers should be raking it in, Zavvi has entered administration, putting 3,400 jobs at risk. The proximate cause is the collapse of EUK. Zavvi is believed to have owed the distributor (owned...

Last month marked the creation of a global subscription service for games when Turner injected its US-based Gametap subscription service into Metaboli, a predominantly-European service. Turner injected Gametap in return for substantial equity in the merged company....

In the latest issue of MCV, Don Mattrick and John Shappert talk about hitting the $1 billion revenue barrier for Xbox Live. The stats were originally announced at E3, but there was some interesting colour: There are...

I’ve just returned from two days in extremely sunny Brighton at the Develop Conference. The conference is a great gathering place for UK development with a fantastic range of luminaries and senior developers. It remains, for me,...