APB from Real Time Worlds is about to become either the games industry’s Titanic or its Heaven’s Gate. I’m at the GameHorizon Conference in Gateshead and Dave Jones has just been talking about APB. It’s an incredibly...

The trickle of senior executives from major games companies to startups is threatening to turn into a torrent. Are the days of megalithic publishers numbered? EA COO John Pleasants has quit his job to join Playdom as...

Real 3D games were on display at E3, with James Cameron’s Avatar from Ubisoft and Blitz showcasing its 3D technology with Invincible Tiger: The Legend of Han Tao. But will it save the console? 3D is becoming...

The French constitutional court has ruled the so-called Hadopi law illegal. The law would have allowed a government commission, rather than a court, to disconnect people who repeatedly downloaded copyrighted content over the Internet. The constitutional court,...

As I talk more and more to developers about self-publishing, I am becoming more convinced that tapping into user’s existing social networks is a powerful, cost-effective and viral marketing tool for many games. I’ve tended to focus...

I’ve just come across this post on Open versus Closed platforms from a couple of months ago from Tadhg Kelly of Simple Life Forms. Although it focuses on the decision by Hi5 to make its network closed...

The rebirth of Atari seems to be very painful, if the latest corporate shenanigans are anything to go by. Today’s announcement by Atari sets out a change of senior management. Phil Harrison becomes a non-executive and Jeff...