I chaired a very august panel of games industry figures at the inaugural Investec Digital Media Conference last Thursday. The conference brought together leading digital media companies together with a range of investors and was illuminating and...

I’m at the State of Independence conference in York today, organised by Codeworks GameHorizon. Here are my quick thoughts on Jeferson Valadares’ talk. He’s a Playfish designer talking about making social games. Playfish focuses on Viral distribution,...

Fresh back from GDC (I use “fresh” inadvisedly – having a small child appears to have made jetlag worse), I’ve been reflecting on what I learned at GDC. My #1 learning? Americans are very narrow minded. They...

You want to become a publisher, don’t you? Well, your time is running out. This golden era of opportunity for indies is closing rapidly. The new channels like Facebook, iPhone and XBLA are getting crowded, higher quality...

Just a brief reminder that the earlybird booking for bringing a colleague at half price to my self-publishing masterclass on 25th February in London. You can find out more at the GamesDev Masterclass website Hope to see...

I’m teaching a seminar! I’ve teamed up with Tandem Events, the guys who bring us the Develop Conferences in Brighton and Liverpool, to teach a Game Developer Masterclass. It’s about business, as you might expect. But more...

As I work with my clients, I’ve realised that all of them are trying to do the same thing. They want to pour users into the top of the business and get profits out of the bottom....