The BBC reports today that Richard Thornhill bought a copy of Grand Theft Auto IV for his 12 year old son on the Xbox 360, and was horrified to find four Ecstasy pills tucked away in the...

Will Wright has left Electronic Arts after 12 years. His departure is not just a challenge for EA: it will be a pivotal moment in the demise of the games publisher In a press release this morning, Electronic...

The analysis and commentary on the OnLive service announced at GDC last month is all missing the point. OnLive isn’t aimed at consumers. It’s aimed at the only two potential customers in the world: Microsoft and Sony....

Social gaming company Zynga is reported to be making substantial revenues, and possible even be profitable, from its games on social networks. Venturebeat reports that “it’s making between $50 million and $60 million annually in revenue, mostly...

I read an article in the FT on the Square/Eidos merger that started “Unloved by investors, demonised by the tabloids, sidelined by the government but adored by teenage boys”. It was sufficiently cliched that I was upset,...

Opening weekends are a staple of Hollywood reporting, and Activision is getting in on the act. The World at War Map for Call of Duty 4 had “more than one million downloads… during its first weekend of...

UPDATE: Chris Nuttall of the FT reports that the Changyou IPO priced at the top of the range ($16), and that the shares had risen 25 per cent by the end of the first day’s trading. A...