This is a guest post from Mark Sorrell So I’ve been playing a whole bunch of Samurai Siege. Given that the game is designed to be experienced over a period of months, rather than the weeks I’ve...

Question: My boss thinks that all you have to do to make a game social is to add leaderboards. What can I do? Answers: Andy Payne CEO of Appynation Sit down, make a cup of tea and compose...

There’s no doubt Boom Beach has lots of Clash. But it doesn’t have an Clans. Any at all.

- The most successful indie game this decade, Minecraft, was available in alpha. - Free-to-play games have soft launch, hard launch, major updates and so on. - The concept of a Beta is falling by the wayside

Question: Kristian Segerstrale was an early investor in Supercell (hey, Kristian). He recently wrote that “Few mobile / tablet games will be made with combined production and marketing budgets below $1M in the future.” Kristian has form...

Question: A valuation of $3 billion. Large, deep pocketed, Japanese parents. Only two games, but my, how successful they are. What would you do next if you were the CEO of Supercell. And how do you make sure...

GTA has made $1 billion in the first week. But from here on in, we have two console generations to support at the same time that mobile/casual/tablet and so on is taking off. Is GTA V the...