This is a post by GAMESbrief’s Rob Fahey, co-author (with Nicholas Lovell) of The F2P Toolbox and Design Rules For Free-To-Play Games. You can also read more of his work every week on GamesIndustry.biz. 2016 is going...

Earlier today, Nicholas published an article explaining why he didn’t expect Microsoft to buy Minecraft developer Mojang. As you probably know by now, he was wrong; Microsoft is actually buying the Swedish company for $2.5 billion. Nicholas...

The DICE Summit is rightly regarded as one of the most worthwhile and insightful conferences on the industry calendar, attracting top-quality speakers both from the games business and from other sectors with valuable and relevant experiences to...

It’s just two weeks until the Social Gambling and Gaming Summit kicks off in Berlin. Nicholas will be presenting one of the keynotes at the Summit – the ambitiously titled “Make 3 free-to-play games in an hour”,...

If you’re a GAMESbrief regular, you’ve no doubt noticed that we’re running a Business Masterclass outside Europe for the first time ever next weekend, ahead of GDC 2013 in San Francisco, as well as offering a small...

With GDC 2013 rapidly approaching (it’s only two weeks away, folks), here’s a quick recap of what GAMESbrief will be up to around the event, and a reminder that you should book soon if you want to...