My post earlier this week quoting Bigpoint CEO Heiko Hubertz and DarkOrbit producer Simon Davis on the success of the sale of the 10th Drone got a lot of Internet attention. A lot of people just flat out...

Why has episodic gaming never taken off? It seems so simple: make part of a game, build an audience, earn the money to make the next episodes and repeat ad infinitum. Somehow it never seems to quite work...

As part of GameConnection in Paris, I’m giving a masterclass on "How to Make Money from Social Games”. I’ve given this course a dozen time to indies in London, sponsored by government in Dublin, Liverpool, Newcastle and Glasgow,...

Most media people think in terms of normal distributions. If the price of a game “averages” £15 over its lifetime, total revenue = number of units sold x average price. The entire industry therefore fixates on number...

If you needed evidence that whales exist in online gaming look no further than Bigpoint. The company is on course to deliver €200 million in revenue from virtual goods in 2011 from over 215 million registered users.It's...

Traditional media businesses are all about volume. Every customer pays the same amount, so the only variable that matters is how many customers you have. In the online world, every customer is different. They can pay anything...

VCs don't plan to bring in a new CEO when they invest in a business, but over time circumstances may arise that make it the best course of action. In the latest 50 questions post, Nic explains...