In this post, Deputy Editor Zoya Street shares an opinion on free-to-play in indie games. I love Ridiculous Fishing. It’s a charismatic, unpretentious game with a beautiful aesthetic and a core loop that can’t fail to put...

The "Sequel Strategy" for Free-to-Play games is bastardized between the traditional boxed product world and the new, digital world.

Question: Yesterday afternoon, John Riccitiello resigned from Electronic Arts, citing poor financial performance in the recent quarter as his reason. Presumably the challenges at The old Republic, SimCity and the social division were part of that decision....

If you’re a GAMESbrief regular, you’ve no doubt noticed that we’re running a Business Masterclass outside Europe for the first time ever next weekend, ahead of GDC 2013 in San Francisco, as well as offering a small...

I’m not a fan of energy bars or other ‘negative’ mechanics where a player pays to remove an arbitrary barrier to playing the game. I have no doubt that these are effective techniques for improving monetisation but...