GAMESbrief is about the business of games. It covers everything from self-publishing to raising capital to looking for future business trends. One topic that I keep coming back to is that game makers do not understand how...

Building a sustainable online business is tough. There are so many aspects from getting customers to serving them to making money from them that it can be very easy to be overwhelmed by all of the ideas...

I’m just about to jump on a plane to Frankfurt. I’m going to the Browser Games Forum in Frankfurt (technically Offenbach) I believe to talk about: When acquiring customers isn’t enough: harnessing gameplay to keep them coming...

Yesterday, I gave a talk on self-publishing at a TIGA event. It was fun. As I sometimes do, I took along a number of copies of How to Publish a Game to sell at a conference discount....

In the last month, I have written two posts about games businesses. One was pretty downbeat, the other upbeat. Both were republished on Kotaku and linked to from Rock Paper Shotgun. So which do you think generated...

The Cult of the Amateur is Andrew Keen’s polemic at the rise of content on the web that is uncontrolled by traditional media companies. Halfway through it shifts from a reasoned defence of the status quo to...

The acquisition of Chillingo by EA last week set tongues wagging, particularly when Angry Bird’s developer Rovio went on an aggressive PR campaign to emphasise that the rights to Angry Birds were not part of the deal....