The valuation of King has me terrified. If King tanks after its stock market debut this week (and I think it will), that will be bad news for the games industry for the next three years. Zynga’s...

I like Mind Candy very much, and I hope it will become the British Disney. I am, unfortunately, not convinced that it will. A confluence of issues are causing headaches for the company, and it needs to...

How much is money worth? That depends on when you get it. That is the concept known as the time value of money. Let’s imagine that you have £100. Let’s also imagine that the interest rate you...

In June, Distimo released a free report showing what it takes to break into the top Charts on iOS. (I missed it, thanks Ben Cousins for bringing it to my attention again). The key findings: To get...

You might that if Activision suddenly announced a major payoff, it was rewarding shareholders for supporting it as it built Call of Duty and Skylanders into two of the strongest franchises in the industry. (I leave out...

Over at Eurogamer, Tristan Donovan has written a marvellous piece on the crowd-funding experience of Slightly Mad Games. In an nutshell: the company has raised over £2 million from consumers to fund their game. It says this...