I logged in to Cityville on Sunday doing some research for a new book idea I’m working on. (More about that soon). I haven’t played for months, and as I cleared withered crops and collected some ancient...

There are two different sets of questions you want to ask your VC. One is to find out whether you are comfortable committing to a business marriage over the next decade, a topic I covered in What...

Together with Nic Brisbourne of The Equity Kicker / DFJ Esprit, I am writing a series of 50 questions you should ask when raising venture capital. We expect the series to run for a year, after which...

The Escapist magazine ran a video introduction to microtransactions. I took a deep breath before I watched it – expecting a Zero Punctuation style scathing review of the business model that would probably make me laugh out...

I've been working on an idea over my holiday. It's for a short, punchy book that will give you 52 ways to improve your free-to-play game. Currently it merges ideas from social games, from free-to-play, from mobile and...

On holiday in France, I've been playing Nimblebit Tiny Tower on my wife's iPad. It's a marvellous game (like a free-to-play version of Little Computer People, if you are old enough to remember that), and I'm busy...

I own a virtual farmhouse in Farmville, an apartment in PlayStation Home and have paid for batteries to give me more energy in Cityville. If you work in traditional media, there is good chance that you are...