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  • Better freemium design | Motor World: Car Factory

    This is a guest post from consultant Ben Sipe crossposted from his blog As a Game & Monetization Consultant I’m constantly playing mobile games. I tried to play every game that popped up into the Top 100...

    • Posted 13 years ago
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  • Can you sell second hand games legally? Should you?

    Jas Purewal, an interactive entertainment lawyer at Osborne Clarke and writer of Gamer/Law, takes a look at the fraught question of the legality of second hand sales of games. The second hand sale of digital content (including...

    • Posted 13 years ago
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  • [Gamesbriefers] Should you lead on iOS or Android?

    If you were starting development on a brand new tablet/mobile game for a new studio, would you lead on iOS or Android and why?

    • Posted 13 years ago
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  • Experiment and learn after launch: sales figures from Zombie Outbreak Simulator

    This is a guest post by Saxon Druce from Binary Space Games, crossposted from his blog. As an indie game developer, I find it very helpful reading articles by other indie game developers about what did and...

    • Posted 13 years ago
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  • Why Disney was always going to kill LucasArts

    Last year, Disney bought Lucasfilm from George Lucas, bringing the Star Wars franchise under the Disney umbrella. Yesterday, they killed LucasArts, the inhouse development studio responsible for seminal games such as X-Wing, The Secret of Monkey Island...

    • Posted 13 years ago
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  • 1.7 billion downloads and you only make 152 million euros in revenue?

    Angry Birds maker Rovio today revealed some financial figures, as reported in the Guardian. EUR152.2 million in revenue EUR55.5m in net profit 45% of revenue from consumer products such as plush toys (EUR68.5m) 1.7 billion downloads of...

    • Posted 13 years ago
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  • I love this Amazon recommendation

    While I was at GDC, Amazon sent me this recommendation. Apart from the foolishness of trying to sell me my own book, I loved receiving this email. Can you see why?

    • Posted 13 years ago
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