Now is your chance to take advantage of the earlybird discount for my next GamesDev Business Masterclass. If you book before 31st January, you can save £50 on your delegate pass. Plus, you can bring colleagues...

How many VCs do you want competing to invest in you? It’s not a facetious question. Too few, and there is no sense of urgency or competitive tension. Too many, and you can be bewildered by choice, leaving...

Zynga has just launched a game Dream Heights which is a direct clone of Tiny Tower from independent developers Nimblebit. Now it turns out that Nimblebit turned down an acquisition offer from Zynga. For me, that puts the...

Current iOS darling Temple Run started life as a paid app. It cost 99c and contained in-app-purchases. According to an interview with Gamasutra, the app reached the top 50 in the paid app charts in August 2011, and...

Tiny Tower was one of my favourite games of 2011. Zynga must have noticed its success because they have just launched an exact clone. Check out the open letter from Nimblebit below.

 Nobody wants to invest in professional art in a time when we’ve started to use the word “trillion” in everyday conversations about national debts. Add to this the chorus of devaluation that digital distribution has wrought in...

I make it a rule that I never believe someone has made a stupid decision. I have always just not understood their reasons yet.