I’m going to be speaking at the Virtual Goods Summit in Berlin next week. I went to the companion event in London last year, and it was excellent. High quality panellists and a wide variety of attendees....

I was interviewed for the Guardian’s piece on LA Noire. Originally, it was going to run as a news piece, so they wanted comments from industry types on its importance. I didn’t comment on the game’s cultural...

I’ve just installed a first person shooter on Facebook. It’s called N.O.V.A. Elite and it puts me off from playing it before it even starts.(And which idiot has a game that can only be searched for by...

Customer acquisition is one of the biggest challenges on Facebook. Since Facebook shut down the flow of viral customers (or, as some call it, stopped the wall spam), companies have had to spend significant money on acquiring...

I was at the Gamification conference yesterday hosted by Playgen as part of the Digital Shoreditch week. I tweeted a lot during talks from Rick Gibson, Raf Keustermans, Sebastian Deterding and Richard Bartle. So much so that...

I was recently interviewed for a Eurogamer article entitled “Are console games dying?” It was triggered by a quote from Peter Vesterbacka of Rovio saying console games are dying at SXSW. It probably won’t surprise regular readers...

That was the question I was asked by The Wall Street Journal last week. I’m inclined to think that it is a speed bump, not a derailment. It is a real problem for Sony but it is...