I’m not calling Dave McClure an idiot. Far from it. His presentation to last year’s Seedcamp on the basics of building a web business is inspirational. He calls it Startup Metrics for Pirates – AARRR! (He did...

The UK government has just released figures showing that the nine Regional Development Agencies have invested nearly £2 million pounds in the development of the games industry in England (and I mean England, the figures don’t cover...

Do you really understand the business model of your online game? Are you focusing on it with laser-like precision? If not, you may be wasting time and money on dead-end strategies. A recent article on Venturebeat got...

A lot has been written about generating emotion from games. I found myself having a strong emotional response from a game over the weekend, and it came from the most surprising source. Shidonni is a freemium virtual...

I sometimes get the feeling that although narrative design is all the rage at the moment, maybe it doesn’t get the same level of behind the scenes developmental commentary afforded to the other disciplines. To that end,...

Zynga’s fabulous growth story at Farmville is not all about virality. Earlier this month, ComScore released figures for advertising on social networks. Zynga spends 97% of its advertising budget on social networks (not surprisingly, given that it...

Casualgaming.biz has a thought-provoking article based on recent comments from John Riccitiello. In a leaked internal memo, published by Bloomberg, Riccitiello says that Madden 2010, “one of our highest-rated and best-marketed Madden titles in years” had disappointing...