In a fascinating interview on stage at the WTIA TechNW, Gabe Newell gave detailed insight into pricing experiments that Valve has run via its Steam digital distribution service.

Is “free-to-play” fundamentally different from “free”? Valve’s Gabe Newell thinks so.

I’m going to be speaking at Games 4 Brands on Thursday in London. GAMESbrief readers can attend for £50 less than the normal price.

Gabe Newell of Valve has created one of the most powerful distribution machines in games. His comments on piracy ought to be illuminating. And they are.

Nic's last post in the 50 Questions series was a mathematically dense explanation of how anti-dilution clauses work. This week he gives concise and clear advice on how to negotiate key terms, particularly focusing on valuation....

Freemium or free-to-play have been the business model buzzwords in games for the last two years. We've begun to move from the kneejerk reactions ("they're not even games", "people who play them are stupid") to an emerging...

In my post Key terms in a termsheet Part 2 I covered the basics of anti-dilution. In that post I wrote that there are three flavours of anti-dilution; full ratchet, narrow-based weighted average and broad-based weighted...