In 2012, GAMESbrief will move on from arguing about whether free-to-play works to how to make free-to-play work. As I wrote in my last Gamasutra column of 2011, freemium has won and it’s time to move on....

In a tweet this morning, Yoel Flohr, head of business development for Shine Group, announced that the company had acquired Channelflip. I’ve worked with Justin Gayner and Wil Harris since their early days of the company. Channelflip...

I’m running another masterclass in Dublin next week (Tuesday 10th January). It will be held at the Enterprise Ireland offices in East Point Business Park. Called “How to Make Money from Social Games”, I ran it 8...

When you work on your own, you sometimes lose track of what you have achieved. I’m inclined to think of myself as a slacker, because there are so many things that I want to do each day/week/year,...

Four games have kept me coming back to them in 2011. Three of them were free-to-play, two were on iOS, one on Facebook and one a client MMO on the web. Not one of them was on...