Britain has long been hailed as a creative powerhouse. Not just in games, but in all media, politicians routinely line up to praise the unique British talent for punching above our weight. Yet in the past week,...

Casualgaming.biz reports two leading casual games sites saying that all it takes to build a casual game is $25,000. Geoff Iddison, CEO of Jagex which owns MMO Runescape and casual gaming site FunOrb, says they can add...

The FT reported yesterday that Bigpoint has been acquired in a transaction valued at €70 million. (As an aside, that’s $110 million, which shows how weak the dollar is against the euro at the moment – not...

Michael Hollick, the voice of Niko Bellic in Grand Theft Auto IV, has kicked up a fuss about not being paid royalties or residuals for his work on the game. He was paid $100,000 for his work,...

An article of mine on what 2008 holds for Sony is currently on the homepage of www.helium.com. Helium is a great concept, but I feel it is flawed.

According to the Financial Times yesterday, songwriters and publishers for the first time earned more from broadcasts and legal downloads of their music in 2007 than from the copyright from sales of CDs. I believe that this...