Dan Cook is a great designer, who has designed games like Triple Town, Steambirds Alliance and Realm of the Mad God. He is also very generous with his time and this thoughts, including at his blog www.lostgarden.com....

Is there a market for real-time, multiplayer, free-to-play games on mobile? Most successful f2p, multi-player mobile games these days are asynchronous. While this may sound better fit to the use case of a mobile phone (short sessions...

If you’re reading this as it is posted, I should be taking the stage at the London Games Conference to convince 200 gaming industry bigwigs of the companies that I think are going to be winners or...

In the wake of the recent spate of formerly subscription-based MMOs adopting a free-to-play model (City of Heroes, LEGO Universe, Age of Conan, LOTRO), MCV asked me to answer some questions on why this model works so...

Sony recently tried to break into the MMO genre on console with the high-profile launch of DC Universe Online. It’s an interesting experiment in making an MMO work on the console platform, and paves the way for...