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  • For every platform, it’s all about the games

    Inside Social Games ran an interview with Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook last week. In it he said, about games: “I was surprised, I was surprised about games” “I had a conversation with some folks at Apple and...

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  • Gambling companies get big on gaming

    The news that 888 Corporation has spent up to $48 million on gaming company Mytopia is, at one level, no surprise. It’s all about CPA Gambling companies are experts at two things: customer acquisition and understanding legislation....

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  • The purpose of Series A and Series B funding

    Nic Brisbourne over at theequitykicker has published a guest post from me featuring extracts from How to Publish a Game. He said some nice things about the book (“an excellent manual for developers who are considering how...

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  • Steam is not a monopoly

    I’ve some good (and not so good) comments on my post Five reasons why Steam will destroy PC gaming. Peter Boivin, a US anti-trust attorney, provided a thoughtful counter-argument. It was so relevant I thought I would...

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  • Five reasons why Steam will destroy the PC games industry

    In the feedback for How to Publish a Game, one element stood out. I had suggested that it made sense for a developer making PC games to work hard to get on all the distribution platforms. Not...

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  • DRM: necessary evil or consumer insult

    I was recently interviewed by Will Porter (@batsphinx) for PC Zone’s feature on DRM, and particularly Ubisoft’s draconian measures. I’ve transcribed my bit below. You should read the full article on PC DRM on GamesRadar. Nicholas Lovell,...

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  • Capcom stops working with non-Japanese devs – but at least they’re honest about why their market is shrinking

    Capcom has seen two big flops recently: Dark Void and Bionic Commando. According to an interview with the Financial Times entitled Capcom shuns foreign game developers, Haruhiro Tsujimoto, Capcom president, said that the company would only “employ...

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