5th day of April in the year of our Lord 1716. Forty-five days out of Bristol and my life changed forever. Our merchant brigantine was today captured by the pirate sloop Adventurer’s Revenge. I fear I may...

The conversation I have with non-industry types more frequently than any other - save for, perhaps, the "Wait, video games have stories?" one - is the "Why do you give a shit about enabling 13 - 30...

Not all investors are the same. A seed investor is looking for something very different from a Series B investor. Get the wrong investor for your stage of development, and it can kill your business stone dead.

I was interviewed on Radio 4’s You and Yours yesterday. The subject was kids, apps and iPhones. My contribution is about how apps aimed at kids make money. The reporter managed to re-edit my contribution in a...

This is the third post in a series I’m calling ARM yourself. Once you’ve acquired customers, you ought to keep them, right? It’s amazing how many games companies don’t think like this. How much effort they put...

I’ve been selling How to Publish a Game for a massive 50% off. It’s reduced to £49.50 until the end of Tuesday 7th December. If you are interested in: Eight proven ways of making money from your game...

Like many British gamers, I watched Panorama this evening. (For non-Brits, Panorama is an investigative journalism programme on the BBC that revealed last week, for example, that FIFA is riddled with corruption). Gamers across the Twitterverse girded...