Inside Social Games ran an interview with Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook last week. In it he said, about games: “I was surprised, I was surprised about games” “I had a conversation with some folks at Apple and...

I’m just back from holiday. Two families, young children. So we had to stay in a lot. I brought Settlers of Catan to try out. After a lot of games, we’re hooked. It’s elegantly balanced, rarely takes...

In an epic fail of scheduling, I will be speaking at the Virtual Goods Forum on Wednesday 23rd June on Feeding the funnel: finding the levers to turn users into profits. Casual games are a funnel. You...

The Develop Conference has obviously been drinking from the “FREE” fountain. They are offering a bunch of their sessions entirely for free. I’m particularly excited by Adam Green’s session: Business: Starting Up a Games Studio With No...

E3 was all about peripherals. Microsoft’s Kinect. Sony’s Move. Oh, and Nintendo’s 3DS. E3 was all about peripherals, and 3D. Anyway, my favourite peripheral of the show was low tech. It was a blow up car with...

The answer, according to Finnish developer Rovio, is to have a big red logo for your game. The company has now achieved 10 million downloads for Angry Birds: 4 million at 99c and 6 million of the...

Welcome to the fourth in a series of 12 posts from games developers who have taken the brave step into self-publishing. They have all contributed to How to Publish a Game, and you can get the first...