Widely trailed last week, ngmoco today confirmed its $400m acquisition by Japan’s DeNA. Not bad for a business that is barely two years old. Kudos to Neil Young and the rest of the team. ngMoco was one...

Look no further than the Next Generation Media Quarterly October 2010 from Dan Calladine. There are snippets of information that will useful or interesting to pretty well every reader of GAMESbrief, I think. Next Generation Media Quarterly...

On Wednesday, I got a press release entitled “Hey look, a new farming game”. The initial paragraph read: “Dear Team at Games Brief, We know what you’re thinking, “Sweet baby Jesus in heaven, not another farming game!”...

Last week, I wrote a post about the sneering attitudes core gamers have towards social games. The genesis of the post was a deeply-prejudiced article in the SF Weekly about Zynga’s business ethics. I didn’t take issue...

I read this article from SF Weekly on Zynga’s business practices with increasing anger. My bile rose and rose, and not for the reasons you think. The article claimed to be an exposé on Zynga’s dodgy business...

I was privileged to be part of a session at the Edinburgh Television Festival about games. It’s so important that games and TV start exploiting crossover opportunities much more. Alongside Chris Deering (ex-head of Sony Computer Entertainment...

Playfish CEO Kristian Segerstrale said brands had no place in social games. Until his acquisition by EA, that is.