Lawyers like to keep things close to their chest, and a recent IBC conference on videogames and law was no exception. We were in a subterranean chamber with no access to Twitter. So here are the key...

A recent report from PlaySpan looks at purchases of virtual goods in the last 12 months. The key conclusion is that building a business that aims to sell extra levels just ain’t going to work. The survey...

Some recent and useful statistics (via GamaSutra): RedLynx’s motorcycle game Trial HD has been a great success “Barely a month since its launch, Trials HD has surpassed 300,000 sold units and the sales continue to ride on”...

The social games space is full of lawsuits. Mob Wars creator David Maestri left SGN to launch the game himself, so they sued him. They settled and Maestri then sued Zynga (creator of Mafia Wars) and Playdom...

DISCLAIMER: I’m a non-executive director at nDreams. nDreams announced today that it had had 5 million visits to Xi, the Alternate Reality Game that launched in March 2009, The game, which combined puzzles and mini-games in Home...

As games become a more prevalent part of the Facebook experience, games are changing the way that users see Facebook. For many gamers, their “gaming” friends on Xbox Live, Xfire or WoW are not real-world friends: they...

I’m not calling Dave McClure an idiot. Far from it. His presentation to last year’s Seedcamp on the basics of building a web business is inspirational. He calls it Startup Metrics for Pirates – AARRR! (He did...