I find most press releases very ignorable, but according to this one on MCV today, Everton Football Club have licensed the football manager database from Sports Interactive, apparently allowing them to search through 340,000 or so players.
This is a very intersting by-product of such a popular game, and strikes me as related to a couple [...]

James Governor has written a fascinating account of his visit to Microsoft’s Virtualisation team, who are attempting to simulate as much as the possibly can. It has potential to improve both the efficiency and the greenness of businesses, as James puts it:
Moving Atoms has a cost. I have recently started talking about Bit Miles as [...]

“My name is Invader, my mission is to invade the planet with videogame characters made from tiles”
Invader has been placing mosaic 8bit sprites in cities for a decade now, and has moved on to even having public commissions. Jetset Graffiti have posted a video interview with him, which is short but is at least an [...]

More news of non-games companies moving further into videogames this week. Tomy announced that they have a 50 year old catalogue of IP, and intend to take it into games publishing for current consoles and handhelds via a new Tomy publishing label. I’m sure I don’t need to remind anyone that toys and non-electronic games [...]

One of the events we ran in London last week was the Indie Games Arcade, which was a huge success. We showed a handful of interesting games, detailed at the linked page on our website.
The highlights were five or so developers from Beatnik Games coming down to continually run a Plain Sight LAN, and someone [...]

Electronic Arts confirmed today that they will roll up their casual label, with president of it Kathy Vrabeck leaving and the label itself along with the Hasbro license being merged into their Sims label (as reported by Gamsutra). This quote is particularly interesting:
“We’ve learned a lot about casual entertainment in the past two years, and [...]