Last month, UK broadcaster Channel 4 ran a shocking story about the highly-sexualised experience of the teen-focused chat room and virtual world Habbo Hotel. As a result, investors pulled out, retailers stopped stocking Habbo gift cards, Habbo...

As GAMESbrief‘s popularity has grown, we often receive requests from developers, publishers or marketers who want to quiz Nicholas about a specific topic. It might be a studio with a great game which they’re struggling to make...

Working with traditional game developers is an interesting challenge for me as a business model designer. I am working with several different studios on a total of 15 different games. It is making me re-evaluate how I...

When I was planning to post this instalment, I was preparing Greedy Bankers: Bailout! for launch - that is, the free version of the game with expanded game modes for in-app purchases. I fully expected this to...

That's right. According to blogger and independent developer Cliff Harris of Positech Studios, who makes a living selling games such as Gratuitous Space Battles and Gratuitous Tank Battles, that's how much the pointless, annoying unskippable copyright warnings...

In the course of over 2 months since its release as an IAP-supported free app, Ski Champion has netted Majaka a grand total of (drum drum drum) … 450 € ! Yup, not missing any K...

Thomas Bidaux of Ico Partners has done an excellent analysis of successful Kickstarter games projects. Like me, he is very aware of the difference between the mean and the median average, whereby the mean average is heavily...