Last week, I wrote a post about a new big monetisation banner that popped up when I returned to Zynga’a Cityville. I wondered if it was a last-ditch attempt to get me to spend money (although I...

Andrew J Smith is one-half of Spilt Milk Studios. He recently launched Hard Lines on iOS, and has been sharing his experiences with us all on GAMESbrief. This week, he muses on the power of Twitter as a...

I logged in to Cityville on Sunday doing some research for a new book idea I’m working on. (More about that soon). I haven’t played for months, and as I cleared withered crops and collected some ancient...

There are two different sets of questions you want to ask your VC. One is to find out whether you are comfortable committing to a business marriage over the next decade, a topic I covered in What...

Together with Nic Brisbourne of The Equity Kicker / DFJ Esprit, I am writing a series of 50 questions you should ask when raising venture capital. We expect the series to run for a year, after which...

The Escapist magazine ran a video introduction to microtransactions. I took a deep breath before I watched it – expecting a Zero Punctuation style scathing review of the business model that would probably make me laugh out...

I've been working on an idea over my holiday. It's for a short, punchy book that will give you 52 ways to improve your free-to-play game. Currently it merges ideas from social games, from free-to-play, from mobile and...