The latest NPD data shows disappointing data for Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars on Nintendo DS. It sold a “pathetic” 89,000 and “bombed”, according to Variety. Game Platform US Installed  Unit  Penetration   base (m)* sales** rate...

Leapfrog, the company famous for games for pre-schoolers, has just launched an iPhone game. This is a massive shift for a company that has previously created its own hardware (such as My My First Computer, aimed at...

Earlier this month, comScore released some of the first iPhone demographic data for the UK. Key points: 75% male Of those men, users are “mostly between the ages of 18-44“. (Love the accuracy of the statistic.) 93% of...

Court documents suggest $30 million is a fair price for Midway. More likely, it’s a ceiling for the value of Mortal Kombat, and is unlikely to be achieved. Last month, creditors kicked up a stink about the...

The Big Picture: Money and Power in Hollywood is billed as the story of “the real magic behind movie making: how the studios make their money”. It mostly succeeds, but if fails by being in thrall to...

Doing some research over the weekend, I came across this argument from 2007: “There are publicly-expressed tensions between Epic and Microsoft over the handling of downloadable content for Gears Of War (Microsoft Games Studios wanted to charge...

I’m fed up. I’m fed up with reports on ‘gamer’ demographics being repackaged to suggest that they are, on the whole, anything other than the traditional young males (13 – 30) we used to assume. My ire’s...