Last week, we announced that I had joined Hiro Capital as a Venture Specialist. Hiro is one of a new breed of games investor targeting the “post-Seed gap”, helping companies in the games and related technology/wearables sectors...

Subscriptions are becoming a common part of the gaming landscape, as Microsoft Games Pass reaches 18 million subscribers, Apple pushes its Arcade service and Google, Amazon and others try to get in on the action. It’s an...

Gacha is the name for random rewards delivered in games, particularly service games. The word is derived from the Japanese word gachapon, an onomatopoeia of “gacha” for the sound of turning a crank on a toy vending...

Nicholas’s Guessing Game is a thought experiment that makes the design process faster and more efficient. When you have identified a new feature that you want to build, ask team members to write down a guess for...

There are many different stages of game development. Here’s my favourite: For me, there are five major phases: concept, production, launch, live and sunset. These can be broken down further like this: The five phases of game...