A lot has been written about generating emotion from games. I found myself having a strong emotional response from a game over the weekend, and it came from the most surprising source. Shidonni is a freemium virtual...

Zynga’s fabulous growth story at Farmville is not all about virality. Earlier this month, ComScore released figures for advertising on social networks. Zynga spends 97% of its advertising budget on social networks (not surprisingly, given that it...

In amongst a lot of ‘meh’ announcements from Apple yesterday might have been one that could change the fortunes of the AppStore. Genius is a recommendation engine for the AppStore. It looks at the Apps you have...

No one leaves Activision to join a casual or web-gaming business, for the simple the reason that they just don’t get it. EA’s recent weakness is a strength, if only they can stop the brain drain. The...

Farmville may be the fastest growing Facebook game ever. It was only released in July and in August, over 33 million people played it. What’s the secret of its success? Sponsored link: Learn inside secrets for Farmville...

The content versus distribution argument may be as old as the media industry. But does the Disney acquisition of Marvel for $4 billion return content to the ascendancy. Barely a decade ago, Marvel was bankrupt. But it...

As Twitter tries to find a business model and newspaper columnists show ‘>how completely they don’t understand current technologies, the newspaper editor is becoming irrelevant I’ve been asked several times in the last week why I use...