The GAMESbrief revenue forecasting spreadsheet is aimed at forecasting gross revenues. Many people have asked me to include the cut taken by the platform holder since, in effect, these costs are always taken out.

If you follow the right type of person on Twitter, you can’t have missed Berg’s Little Printer. I think it is a gimmick that will grace a few of the homes that own those over-designed three-legged orange...

Going through the process of turning over 750 blog posts on GAMESbrief into three volumes of edited thoughts has taught me a lot about the difference between the printed word and the online word. Anyone thinking about...

I wrote a post about why episodic gaming doesn’t work, and got many comments back about how my logic (that you lose a large percentage of your audience between episodes) is flawed. I saw this fascinating chart on...

This post was originally published as part of a regular series on gamasutra. It is reproduced here with permission. Retention is the key measure of success for a free-to-play game. This fact should send a frisson of fear...

My post earlier this week quoting Bigpoint CEO Heiko Hubertz and DarkOrbit producer Simon Davis on the success of the sale of the 10th Drone got a lot of Internet attention. A lot of people just flat out...

Why has episodic gaming never taken off? It seems so simple: make part of a game, build an audience, earn the money to make the next episodes and repeat ad infinitum. Somehow it never seems to quite work...