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....

Welcome to twenty-first century media, where there are no consumers. To consume implies to use up. To expend. To stop, by the act of consumption, someone else from having the same thing. CDs are consumables. If I...

Kotaku reports swingeing cuts at LucasArts HQ, with perhaps 60 developers and 25 QA staff believed to have been laid off. Added to the Job Loss Tracker.

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 sometimes get companies saying to me words to the effect of: “We’ve just launched our game and it only has 1,000 users. It’s a DISASTER.” And I say to them.: “It may be a disaster. It...

I was inspired to write this post by Jimmy Mulville’s Richard Dunn memorial lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival. Jimmy runs HatTrick, one of the most successful UK independent production companies that makes some great comedy shows...