At the Social Gaming Summit in London yesterday, Julien Codorniou, European head of gaming partnerships for Facebook, gave a keynote on the power of the graph. For me, the presentation revealed more about Facebook’s fears than its...

"Free-to-play" games have caused intense reactions in the gaming community, with strong views on whether it is an ethically sound way to design games or whether it is slot machines in disguise. When we designed Forever Drive,...

Osborne Clark’s seminar for inhouse lawyers in the games industry was surprisingly interesting for a non-lawyer like me. I’ve already embedded Jas Purewal’s slides on Lodsys, the mobile patent wars and interactive entertainment in a previous post....

Delays can be blamed on the busy October/November calendar for anyone in the games business who values going to shows and conferences. Not only was there the Eurogamer Expo a few weeks back, but more have cropped...

The games industry is changing. We’re moving from selling games in boxes via large retail stores to building long-term relationships with customers. We’re thinking in terms of life-time value, not units sold. We are talking directly to our...

If you’re reading this as it is posted, I should be taking the stage at the London Games Conference to convince 200 gaming industry bigwigs of the companies that I think are going to be winners or...

Last month, I spoke at Osborne Clark’s seminar for inhouse lawyers for the games industry. It was afternoon of legal stuff, together with me talking about piracy and free. Jas Purewal (also known as @gamerlaw on Twitter)...