I’ve just installed a first person shooter on Facebook. It’s called N.O.V.A. Elite and it puts me off from playing it before it even starts.(And which idiot has a game that can only be searched for by...

Customer acquisition is one of the biggest challenges on Facebook. Since Facebook shut down the flow of viral customers (or, as some call it, stopped the wall spam), companies have had to spend significant money on acquiring...

This is the first competition I’ve run on GAMESbrief, and it’s thanks to the lovely people at Packt Publishing (including @fbindie, who is a regularly commenter on GAMESbrief and whose advice on marketing your game is included...

According to TechCrunch, Google has secretly invested $100 million in Zynga. (Congratulations to Michael Arrington for that scoop.) TechCrunch says: “The investment was made by Google itself, not Google Ventures, say our sources, and it’s a highly...

Inside Social Games ran an interview with Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook last week. In it he said, about games: “I was surprised, I was surprised about games” “I had a conversation with some folks at Apple and...

The Financial Times yesterday ran a story arguing that the social games industry is about to see a lot of acquisitions. It said that a senior executive at a leading social games company thinks that “smaller developers...