I’ve been working on Stronghold Kingdoms for over two years. It went into open beta late last year. Firefly has now opened a second world and released a new trailer of the game that takes a PC...

I was recently talked to a social games client about how important Social Proof is to creating successful social games. He listened to my exposition of Social Proof and said, “Oh, you mean like that granny who...

Want to know how to make money from social games? How to get customers and, more importantly, keep them? Want to learn the proven psychological techniques that game designers use to keep players playing (and spending) day...

Dear Esther was an experimental 2008 Half-Life 2 mod which positioned the player as a nigh-on passive entity; a nameless soul exploring a Hebridean island at snail’s pace while semi-randomised letters to ‘Esther’  are syphoned through the...

The games industry just can’t win. Earlier this week, a GAME employee acted with exemplary integrity for the good of our industry. He or she refused to serve a 17 year old boy a 15-rated game without...

This is a guest post from Jas Purewal, a games lawyer and author of games law blog Gamer/Law. You can follow him on Twitter. Trade marks are generating a lot of heat in the games industry right...

This week, Nic Brisbourne explains what you can do to accelerate the capital-raising process, which mainly means finding ways to reduce the venture capitalists’ perception of risk. If you want to find out how to raise money...