Google’s Android Marketplace, now home to more than 100,000 mobile apps, has fast become the top competitor to Apple’s App Store. But unlike Apple’s store, Android apps aren’t subject to extensive review before they’re made available in the store. Google’s more open system for uploading apps has led to a…

Yet another reason for game publishers to read the fine print in the content licensing deals they sign. Toy-maker Hasbro is suing Atari over allegations that Atari entered into an “unauthorized sublicensing relationship” with Namco Bandai for the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) games. Hasbro subsidiary Wizards of the Coast owns…

Not that this is a surprise: Atari’s biggest shareholder Infogrames, the French video games company, has bought the struggling company after its non-binding offer earlier in March. The cost for the rest of 49.6 percent: $11 million…Infogrames already held 51.4 percent. The merger will be funded by Infogrames from existing…

The Atari saga continues, as its biggest shareholder Infogrames, the French video games company, has offered to buy the rest of the company for $1.68 a share. This is a non-binding offer, the company said. Infogrames owns 51 percent of Atari. Just last December, Atari said it had completed some…