It’s not all bad news in Dundee this week. The University of Abertay has announced that it is administering a government fund to help game developers get new IP projects off the ground. As they say: “If...

Fred Destin gives an enormously helpful list of super angels in Europe over at his blog: The rise of the European superangel. But before you dash off to ask for money for your pet project, you should...

In an emotional company blog post yesterday, CEO Matt Mihaly announced that Sparkplay has laid off all but two staff and looks likely to go bust.I’ve added it to the Job Loss Tracker. Sparkplay operates Eternal Earth,...

Electronic Arts has decided to sell its 14.9% stake in Ubisoft. The move makes sense. At the time of EA’s purchase, Yves Guillemot said “we consider this operation as hostile”. Matching actions to his words, Ubisoft started...

According to TechCrunch, Google has secretly invested $100 million in Zynga. (Congratulations to Michael Arrington for that scoop.) TechCrunch says: “The investment was made by Google itself, not Google Ventures, say our sources, and it’s a highly...

Earlier this year, a bunch of successful indie developers announced that they were going to invest in indie games – new ones, made by other people. The people behind World of Goo, Braid, flow and other games...

Nic Brisbourne over at theequitykicker has published a guest post from me featuring extracts from How to Publish a Game. He said some nice things about the book (“an excellent manual for developers who are considering how...