News broke today that rockstar entrepreneur Michael Acton Smith is stepping aside as CEO of Mind Candy, the company behind kids’ brand Moshi Monsters. “I love this company, I’m obsessed with it but Mind Candy is a...

I saw this tweet from Nicole Lazarro: To have fun players must first know: how to play, how to do better, and how to win. Surprising how many Apps forget this. — Nicole Lazzaro (@NicoleLazzaro) June 25,...

I’ve been watching a number of different games take different approaches to daily rewards. Some offer a bonus for coming back. Some offer escalating bonuses. Some give you a spin of a wheel to win a prize,...

Leigh Alexander of Gamasutra just wrote up the story of Amplitude, the game that Harmonix launched in 2003 and is now kickstarting a new, updated version a decade later. It contains a paragraph which suggests that the...

Pocketgamer.biz just interviewed Graeme Monk, Studio Director at Exient, about the making of Angry Birds Go!. He gives insight into how often we threw away certain pieces of the design (particularly the user interface), the logic behind...

I often get asked to name F2P games that “get it right”. That usually means ones that appeal to core gamers, and are like “how games are meant to be”, which is a shame, because my favourite...

The stock market will respond to how King’s performance compares to the "indications" they gave during their IPO roadshow. That means that there are some ways we can look at the these numbers and understand what is...