Alec Brownstein wanted a job in advertising. What did he know about creative directors? That they were narcissistic enough to Google their own names. So he bought an ad saying “Hey, Mr Narcissistic Creative Director. Googling your...

I am a big fan of Steve Blank. He teaches entrepreneurship at Berkeley and Stanford and wrote Four Steps to the Epiphany. In his most recent blog post, he attempts to answer the question: “Should an entrepreneur...

I love this. Not content with having 15 million registered users and making parents the world over despair as their children demand more subscription money so they can continue to buy virtual pets for their virtual pets...

Perhaps only in Britain could a publicly-funded broadcaster make a game about sexually-transmitted diseases. Channel 4 has funded Zombie Cow, the makers of Time Gentlemen, Please! and Gibbage to make Privates, “a funky little game about tiny...

The Financial Times yesterday ran a story arguing that the social games industry is about to see a lot of acquisitions. It said that a senior executive at a leading social games company thinks that “smaller developers...

I chaired a very august panel of games industry figures at the inaugural Investec Digital Media Conference last Thursday. The conference brought together leading digital media companies together with a range of investors and was illuminating and...

I saw an announcement from a casual games company that made me sit up and take notice for the first time in ages. Exent runs Free Ride Games, a casual gaming site with 2.1 million monthly users....