What a difference a week makes. Last month, I wrote a blog post saying how I viewed the future of games in three parts: AAA blockbusters (the “movie” model”), persistent ongoing games (the “television” model) and independents....

This is the second post in a series I’m calling ARM yourself. Acquisition used to seem so easy. You simply added a button called “Invite your friends” on your website. They all clicked on it, you sold...

Building a sustainable online business is tough. There are so many aspects from getting customers to serving them to making money from them that it can be very easy to be overwhelmed by all of the ideas...

The acquisition of Chillingo by EA last week set tongues wagging, particularly when Angry Bird’s developer Rovio went on an aggressive PR campaign to emphasise that the rights to Angry Birds were not part of the deal....

Yesterday, I wrote a post entitled Ten games companies that are blessed. Three hours later, the rumour broke that Electronic Arts had acquired Chillingo, the British iPhone publisher that I had put on the list. The price...

I was reading the TechCrunch report of Disney’s acquisition of Playdom and this comment leaped out at me: “The sad truth is that 90% of employees got nothing immediately from this deal. 90% of Playdom employees joined...

The acquisition of Playdom by Disney is all about exploiting Disney’s IP on social plafforms. But will it work? Disney has paid $563.2 million, mainly in cash, plus a $200 million earnout for Playdom. that’s a total...