The New York Times reports today on the phenomenon of netbooks, and how it risks destroying the established IT order. Netbooks are ultra-low-cost laptops with small screens, open source software and limited processors. As a result, they...

This is the kind of story that will make old-school developers misty-eyed for the days when they could conceive, develop, code and publish a game from their teenage bedrooms. Developer Ethan Nicholas works at Sun Microsystems. In...

Linden Labs has acquired two virtual goods business within Second Life. The companies (OnRez and Xstreet SL) offer Web-based marketplaces that sell custom skins and kit for ingame avatars. For example, you buy a skin to make...

Earlier this month, TechCrunch reported a leaked investor email from iPhone developer Tapulous. The company’s biggest success is a title called Tap Tap Revenge, a music game in the tradition of Guitar Hero or Dance Dance Revolution....

TechCrunch reports that YouTube is launching its video service on PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii (but apparently not in the UK. The blog post referenced by TechCrunch doesn’t appear to be accessible from London). Users can point the...

At a keynote at SMU’s Law School, Mitch Lasky argued that the industry has got its focus all wrong: Content innovation drives audience growth, but “distribution innovation drives value creation“. (Source: GamaSutra) Mitch has the track record...

You may be forgiven for having missed this interview with Rod Cousens of Codemasters in the Financial Times on Boxing Day last year. Rod says that the company, majority-owned by private equity firm Balderton Capital, is in a...