The administrators dealing with the collapse of Realtime Worlds have officially confirmed that they will be keeping 23 out of 60 members of staff working on Project MyWorld. The remaining staff members will be continuing their work at the company’s Dundee-based headquarters. MyWorld is a platform that allows game developers to create new social games. Joint administrator Ken Pattullo, of business rescue and restructuring specialist Begbies Traynor said: “As a   Read More ...

When we went to Nintendo last week, Wii Party was not on our main list to play. However, after grabbing some Nintendo-made OJ and saddling up some seats, we settled to try it. All three of our epic staff members were perched around their delightful cubes, accompanied by their Wii-motes (including wrist straps for all) and the game begun. This is where something we didn’t plan for happened: we actually   Read More ...

We’ve all done it at some point. Crowded around a TV, Xbox and Guitar Hero; half a bottle of whiskey flowing through the blood stream and some bizarre cocktail of God-knows-what in our hands, attempting to beat Hysteria’s complicated bass line on expert. Not all of us try and do this for a living, however. But for a few guys in Brisbane, Australia; the dream of playing Guitar Hero whilst   Read More ...

Google has invested around $100 million to $200 million in Zynga, the company behind Farmville and Mafia Wars. Zynga have raised half a billion dollars in venture capital over the past year, and it looks like Google’s contribution has confirmed that Zynga’s games will be part of a Google Games service when it’s released in 2011. Google Games will be focused on social games and will enable gamers to track   Read More ...