I don’t normally cover product launches at Gamesbrief (this is a blog about the business of games after all), but this announcement of the launch of Stronghold Kingdoms from Firefly Studios is different for several reasons: Firefly...

Surely a sign of things to come – the BBC has reported that Swedish-based MMO, Entropia Universe, has been granted an official banking license. The license means that it can offer full banking services to customers including...

I’m sorry to bang out about Unity, I really am. But back when I was a callow youth, I remember a moment when I thought the computer game business would change forever. It was an ECTS in...

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....

Real Networks has announced that it will spin off its casual games division. It’s a pretty big business with revenues of $31.8 million in the first quarter of 2008 ($108 million for the whole of 2007), and...