Last week, I wrote a post about the sneering attitudes core gamers have towards social games. The genesis of the post was a deeply-prejudiced article in the SF Weekly about Zynga’s business ethics. I didn’t take issue...

Welcome to the latest in the series of Lessons Learned from developers who have bitten the self-publishing bullet. They’ve experienced the highs and lows of publishing their own games, wrestled with games marketing, distribution and finance and...

I was reading a GamaSutra article on how the UK is losing out to Canada due to tax breaks. This comment from developer Rob Bridgett leaped out at me: I just don’t buy that the migration of...

If you’re interested in tax breaks, 3D, the Edinburgh Interactive Festival and Duke Nukem, you should listen to the Guardian podcast. Hosted by Dr Aleks Krotoski, with guests Keith Stuart and me, we cover a lot of...

I read this article from SF Weekly on Zynga’s business practices with increasing anger. My bile rose and rose, and not for the reasons you think. The article claimed to be an exposé on Zynga’s dodgy business...

I went to the UKIE launch party last night. UKIE is the new ELSPA. I’m not a big fan of the new name but the change – from a focus on boxed product publishers to a more...

I gave a talk entitled Whales, Power Laws and the Future of Media at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival last month. In essence, the old media model is that all consumers were treated equally: one price, one experience....