Earlier this week, Japan’s Gree bought OpenFeint for $104 million. The nice thing about Japanese transactions is that listed companies have to give details of the transaction. Here are the details they gave about the underlying revenues and...

I’m about to make some changes to how the GAMESbrief email service operates. I have a lot of readers who follow GAMESbrief via RSS. In fact, I get about 3x as many readers via RSS as via...

There's a war going on. Here's an exclusive report from the field by our correspondent Patrick O'Luanaigh, one time CEO, nDreams Ltd. The skirmishes are increasing in frequency and intensity. The occasional f-bomb has been dropped by both...

Congratulations to Heiko Hubertz, Simon Guild and the rest of the team at Bigpoint. They’ve just sold a majority stake in Bigpoint for $350 million. But if you play Bigpoint’s games, and are hoping for a new raft...

Moshi Monsters is on a roll. 38 million registered users. A line of plush toys expected to gross £100 million of revenue in 2011.* Rumours of movie deals or TV spin-offs. So why am I so worried?

Perhaps the most important question to ask before performing a data analysis of your game is “What do I want to know?” In this guest post, Joost van Dreunen of Super Data Research tells you what you...

This post originally appeared in the Digital Content Monetization newsletter and is reproduced by kind permission. You can find further posts under the DCM tag. The revolutions that have rocked the Arab world have been a wake-up...