For us at Future Games of London, having had great success with the Lite/Paid app model, ditching that and converting to Freemium was a BIG STEP. We’d built our business on a model that looks about to...

Some small developers confuse the act of “self-releasing” with the discipline of “self-publishing”. Anybody can release a game now… just click through a few dialog boxes and BOOM - your title is on the App Store. However,...

Great Little War Game has been out on sale now for about three months. It's available in HD format for iPad and Retina devices, and there's a low definition version for 3GS phones too. We just passed...

This is my third post inspired by Flurry’s most recent release of free-to-play data. (The others were on free-to-play ARPPU and how whales dominate IAP revenues on smartphones.) This data shows just how successful smartphone gaming is...

Continuing my analysis of Flurry’s amazing statistics, 31% of revenue generated by in-app purchases for iOS and Android games comes from transaction sizes of over $20. Look at this chart provided by Flurry: It shows a pattern...

Regular readers will know that I am a great believer in the free-to-play model, the future of games (and possibly all media) is about satisfying the power-users and superfans (otherwise known as whales) and the anyone pursuing...

On holiday in France, I've been playing Nimblebit Tiny Tower on my wife's iPad. It's a marvellous game (like a free-to-play version of Little Computer People, if you are old enough to remember that), and I'm busy...