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...

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...

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...

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...

In an interview with Gamasutra, Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida says that working with small games and indies will be vital to the success of Vita. It's statements show how little Sony understand of the free-to-play revolution...

To explore this idea, I wrote a novellette of 13,000 words called Mind Games. It's a detective thriller set in London, with a surprising amount about games. It's available right now on Amazon as Kindle book. I'd...

I think there is all the difference in the world between downloadable content and virtual goods, but it appears that many gamers don't agree. For anyone involved in the business of making games (less in the pleasure of...