I have been involved in many companies, but only once as a CEO. That experience taught me one lesson really sharply: the CEO has to know how every part of his or her business interacts. He has...

I just plugged "gamesbrief" into Amazon. This page is what I saw: I’m really excited that you can buy my first collection of GAMESbrief posts from Amazon now. I can even put one of those little Amazon...

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...