The UK government has just released figures showing that the nine Regional Development Agencies have invested nearly £2 million pounds in the development of the games industry in England (and I mean England, the figures don’t cover...

Do you really understand the business model of your online game? Are you focusing on it with laser-like precision? If not, you may be wasting time and money on dead-end strategies. A recent article on Venturebeat got...

A lot has been written about generating emotion from games. I found myself having a strong emotional response from a game over the weekend, and it came from the most surprising source. Shidonni is a freemium virtual...

Zynga’s fabulous growth story at Farmville is not all about virality. Earlier this month, ComScore released figures for advertising on social networks. Zynga spends 97% of its advertising budget on social networks (not surprisingly, given that it...

Casualgaming.biz has a thought-provoking article based on recent comments from John Riccitiello. In a leaked internal memo, published by Bloomberg, Riccitiello says that Madden 2010, “one of our highest-rated and best-marketed Madden titles in years” had disappointing...

In amongst a lot of ‘meh’ announcements from Apple yesterday might have been one that could change the fortunes of the AppStore. Genius is a recommendation engine for the AppStore. It looks at the Apps you have...

Yesterday evening, Kemp Little and MindCandy hosted a get-together of the UK social games business. There were CEOs from companies like Playfish, eRepublik, CyberSports, Jolt Online, Playfire and Atari. There was a good showing from VCs as...