The recent acquisition of TwoFish by LiveGamer was justified by the need to offer a full-service ecommerce solution across all genres of games, not just MMOs. Does this mean the end of the distinction between hardcore and...

Sarah Lacy has written an ill-conceived attack on “mercenary employees” at Facebook who have chosen to cash some of their shares in the company. Facebook has recently announced a tender offer for up to $100 million of...

John Carmack has announced that in-game advertising was not remunerative enough to support id software’s web-based version of Quake and a premium service is on the way. Does this mean that the days are numbered for high-quality...

Are we really seeing a dearth of venture capital money? There’s still plenty of venture capital firms around, but why aren’t they spending? Most VC funds have a seven-ten year cycle. They raise money from limited partners,...

The first quarter results for the three major platform holders make grim reading and explode the myth that console-based gaming is recession-proof. Microsoft annual revenues from the Entertainment and Devices division were down 5% ($8.20 billion year...

World of Warcraft’s servers have been down for a couple of month now, but the end appears to be in sight. GamaSutra reports that the Chinese government has now approved a “limited beta” to start on July...

Jonathan Miller, head of digital activities at NewsCorp, has said that “MySpace is and will be more in the future a gaming platform, a space for people to meet and play games” (Thanks to GI.biz for quoting...