I read this article from SF Weekly on Zynga’s business practices with increasing anger. My bile rose and rose, and not for the reasons you think. The article claimed to be an exposé on Zynga’s dodgy business...

I went to the UKIE launch party last night. UKIE is the new ELSPA. I’m not a big fan of the new name but the change – from a focus on boxed product publishers to a more...

I gave a talk entitled Whales, Power Laws and the Future of Media at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival last month. In essence, the old media model is that all consumers were treated equally: one price, one experience....

Welcome to twenty-first century media, where there are no consumers. To consume implies to use up. To expend. To stop, by the act of consumption, someone else from having the same thing. CDs are consumables. If I...

Kotaku reports swingeing cuts at LucasArts HQ, with perhaps 60 developers and 25 QA staff believed to have been laid off. Added to the Job Loss Tracker.

Welcome to the latest in the series of Lessons Learned from developers who have bitten the self-publishing bullet. They’ve experienced the highs and lows of publishing their own games, wrestled with games marketing, distribution and finance and...

This is a guest post by freelance narrative designer, Tom Jubert. Check him out at http://www.tomjubert.com/ Interactive writing and narrative design is one of the fastest growing areas of game development. This positions it – potentially –...