The video games industry has long cried foul that it is not treated equally. We are upset that Canadian companies get better tax breaks than British ones and we whinge that film is treated with respect by...

I am a strong proponent of self-publishing for developers (and any content creators in fact). So I keep getting asked “why do you hate publishers so much”. And the straight-forward answer is that I don’t. Publishers are...

This is a lightly edited transcript of a talk I gave at the Westminster eForum on Filesharing, copyright and the digital consumer on 14th July. I was pleasantly surprised by how open the music industry seemed to...

Citing declines in the Wii market, Kuju has made half the staff of its Headstrong subsidiary redundant as the studio refocuses to also support Sony platforms. According to GamesIndustry.biz (registration required), Headstrong had 70 staff at the...

Game design has long had the objective of making users want “just one more go”. With more than a passing nod to the arcade business models of yesteryear, much design thought has gone into making users keep...

Simon Byron was kind enough to invite me on One Life Left, the award-winning radio show on the games industry.They’ve had 122 episodes and I confess I hadn’t listened to the show before. My loss. I really...

Welcome to the ninth in a series of 12 posts from games developers who have taken the brave step into self-publishing. They have all contributed to How to Publish a Game, and you can get the first...