Minecraft is going crazy. In the last 24 hours, there were 31,616 registrations, and 11,887 sales. That’s a staggering 37.5% conversion rate and, at €9.95 per copy, revenue of €118,275. In a single day. This page is...

On Friday, Stew Hogarth kicked off a debate on Twitter. It focused on whether product or marketing was more important, with Stew making an impassioned case that if you don’t have any money, the product is the...

On Wednesday, I got a press release entitled “Hey look, a new farming game”. The initial paragraph read: “Dear Team at Games Brief, We know what you’re thinking, “Sweet baby Jesus in heaven, not another farming game!”...

Earlier this month, Tom Jubert put up a guest post: an interview with Brian Mitsoda, narrative designer on Vampire:the Masquerade – Bloodlines and alumnus of Black Isle, Obsidian and Troika. In it, Brian said: “I completely understand...

This week, Good Old Games put its foot in its mouth and pulled the trigger. On Sunday, news spread across the web that the Good Old Games (or GoG) website was down. The site, which offers DRM-free...

This chart from advertising “yield optimisation platform” Improve Digital shows the make-up of the online advertising industry. That’s a lot of business types. And a lot of companies. It’s a complicated world. If you want to make...

More on whales, I’m afraid. This week, a lot of hoohah has been made about NPD reporting that digital sales of PC games have overtaken boxed product sales in the US. At the same time, the fatfoogoo...