Last week, Kara Swisher of AllThingsD wrote a grumpy oped about Michael Arrington’s conflict of interest. For those of you who don’t know, Michael Arrington is the opinionated founder of TechCrunch, the leading tech blog that was...

This Friday, Radio 4 will broadcast a show about making games. It’s called Virtually Famous and follows the inimitable Ellie Gibson to a 48 hour game jam. They even interviewed me for the show “Consultant Nicholas Lovell...

It’s nearly that time. I’ve been reviewing Volume 2 of GAMESbrief Unplugged (with help from Dan Griliopoulos), and it’s very nearly finished. So again, I’m asking you for a blurb. The book contains all my writings on...

Back on 13 May, Nicholas wrote a post slamming the Facebook game N.O.V.A. ELITE for having a minimum specification, control layout sheet and loud music. All cardinal sins, he argued, of a social game. I disagreed with...

Activision has just announced a Call of Duty subscription service called Call of Duty Elite. (More accurately, it’s under embargo until 4pm this evening, but the Wall Street Journal. broke the embargo, and I was never subject...

I’m changing the way that GAMESbrief emails are being sent. My mail supplier (Aweber, in case you wondered) is REALLY strict about making sure that you still want to get emails from me. So they are asking...

At the Virtual Goods and Social Games Summit on Wednesday, Jens Begemann, founder and CEO of wooga made a statement I liked. “I work in a fast-changing industry. I have a ten-year vision and a six month...