Clearly an indie developer needs a mobile strategy to survive or thrive. In my last article, I argued Facebook was dead to indie gamers and the new frontier is mobile games. We believe this so strongly at...

Bigpoint today took a a broom to its management and its business. Out are Bigpoint veterans Nils Holger-Henning and brothers Philip and Tobias Reiseberger. Out too is the entire mobile business with the loss of 29 jobs. Everyone...

Are you designing a game in Unity, or HTML 5? Have you decided to lead development in the browser, because then your game will be be playable in any device that can read a web page, whether...

I attend a lot of conferences, both in games and in the wider media. Whenever people in the television industry talk about games, they talk about the “second screen”. They have an inbuilt sense that whatever happens,...

Is Facebook having an AOL moment? While traditional businesses are beginning to think that Facebook is a real company that is here to stay, has it passed its moment of maximum importance in the world? Is Facebook...

I’m pleased to say that GAMESbrief is expanding its sponsorship opportunities. I’m working with companies that offer services to game developers and publishers to help them acquire customers, retain customers, monetise customers – or just make game...

Michel Guillemot, CEO of mobile game publisher Gameloft, believes that the future of social gaming is on mobile phones and away from Facebook. That’s what he told investment bank Berenberg in a recent interview, and published in...