This week, Good Old Games put its foot in its mouth and pulled the trigger. On Sunday, news spread across the web that the Good Old Games (or GoG) website was down. The site, which offers DRM-free...

This chart from advertising “yield optimisation platform” Improve Digital shows the make-up of the online advertising industry. That’s a lot of business types. And a lot of companies. It’s a complicated world. If you want to make...

More on whales, I’m afraid. This week, a lot of hoohah has been made about NPD reporting that digital sales of PC games have overtaken boxed product sales in the US. At the same time, the fatfoogoo...

I’m getting more and more evidence that my “Whales, power laws and the future of media” theory is correct. Put simply, if you are a media business that does not offer your true fans a chance to...

I was delighted to be asked to host the gaming panel at the excellent Investec Digital Media Conference in May this year. I had hoped to host the video of the conference, but in an object lesson...

Run by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, the Indie Game Challenge has total prizes of $300,000, supported by GameSpot. Deadline is 1st October 2010. It’s open to professionals and amateurs, the game must be less...

I’m calling it today. The end of the game developer. It’s an anachronistic term, and I’m going to try to stop using it. (I’m bound to fail – I spent ten years trying to teach anyone who...