Permission is a theme I expect to return to often during the rest of the year. How the Internet has ended the primacy of the distributor in favour of the creator, and hence eliminated the need to...

At Develop in Brighton, Johnny Minkley of Eurogamer TV hosted a panel of 2 PR-types (Simon Byron of Premier PR and Hugo Bustillos from Sony) and two journalists (Tim Edwards, editor of PC Gamer and Rory Buckeridge,...

At the GameHorizon Conference earlier this week, Tom Rothenberg (@ryujinXV), managing partner of McCann Ericson UK, gave a talk on how to achieve a successful marketing campaign in this social-networked media environment. Tom oversees the Microsoft account...

At World of Love, Simon Oliver of HandCircus, designer of Rolando made a presentation about 10 things that may be true about being an independent developer. He ended with an exhortation that I wholeheartedly endorse: GO MAKE...

I spend a lot of time talking to games developers about downloadable content. And they always say “We’re going to make bonus levels and maps and sell them as downloadable content”. Which is a terrible idea. it’s...

I’m not calling Dave McClure an idiot. Far from it. His presentation to last year’s Seedcamp on the basics of building a web business is inspirational. He calls it Startup Metrics for Pirates – AARRR! (He did...