I’m preparing the next sprint for the games freelancer database, and I need your help. The freelance database already offers games freelancers the chance to create profiles under different categories (like games programmer, games designer, games artist...

Raising venture capital is a sales process. It is also a buying process. You are building a long-term relationship with a partner who will be with you for half a decade or more, sharing vital financial decisions...

Earlier this week, Japan’s Gree bought OpenFeint for $104 million. The nice thing about Japanese transactions is that listed companies have to give details of the transaction. Here are the details they gave about the underlying revenues and...

I’m about to make some changes to how the GAMESbrief email service operates. I have a lot of readers who follow GAMESbrief via RSS. In fact, I get about 3x as many readers via RSS as via...

Congratulations to Heiko Hubertz, Simon Guild and the rest of the team at Bigpoint. They’ve just sold a majority stake in Bigpoint for $350 million. But if you play Bigpoint’s games, and are hoping for a new raft...

Moshi Monsters is on a roll. 38 million registered users. A line of plush toys expected to gross £100 million of revenue in 2011.* Rumours of movie deals or TV spin-offs. So why am I so worried?

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