Four games have kept me coming back to them in 2011. Three of them were free-to-play, two were on iOS, one on Facebook and one a client MMO on the web. Not one of them was on...

Andrew Smith of Spilt Milk Studios (and the associated developer diaries on GAMESbrief) has written a great piece on indie PR and marketing on Gamasutra. His summary: Be nice. Market to the platform holder, as well as...

A number of people have been telling me that GAMESbrief has been triggering their anti-virus with a trojan alert. All fixed, updated, scrubbed clean and checked. Apologies to anyone who got the warning. We think we’ve got it...

UsTwo are continuing their habit of being extremely open with the sales data from their game Whale Trail. In a tweet yesterday, Chief Wonka Mills (as the head of the UsTwo styles himself), shared this chart of...

How much money can you make on iOS? That’s a pretty key question if you are trying to work out if it is worth your effort to develop for the platform. At least 9 games made $20 million...

My analysis of the top grossing apps of 2011 yesterday covered the UK market. Today, I’ll look at the US App Store Top Grossing apps, based on the 2011 Rewind feature. Games dominate the appstore in the US,...

I think that the data points about whether free works are becoming very clear. In 2011, across the whole Appstore, 59% of the top grossing apps (not games, but all apps) were free. The charts below show the price...