Last week, I wrote a post called Ten games businesses that are doomed. It was very popular (90 retweets and rising; it has already made the Top 5 most popular posts on GAMESbrief ever). It was republished...

Alec Meer of Rock Paper Shotgun wrote a polemic about why I shouldn’t have published Ten games businesses that are doomed That’s his prerogative, and I am currently working on a post explaining my rationale. But in...

Look no further than the Next Generation Media Quarterly October 2010 from Dan Calladine. There are snippets of information that will useful or interesting to pretty well every reader of GAMESbrief, I think. Next Generation Media Quarterly...

The (very) eagle-eyed amongst you will have noticed that I have added a new category to GAMESbrief. Service providers. I am transitioning GAMESbrief to be more of a resource for anyone who makes games. I’ll be doing...

Nic Brisbourne over at The Equity Kicker just blogged that “the iPad has had the fastest adoption rate of any consumer electronics ever”. He said: It took jut 80 days to sell 3 million iPads It is...

When I wrote my post-mortem of RealTime Worlds, some people called me brave. I thought I was cowardly, given that I only expressed my concerns after the company went into administration. And it’s very easy to carp...

To tie in with US Shark Week, the company decided to test the freemium model. They offered the original full game for free, and gave players the chance to upgrade to a premium version (essentially more levels)...