Valve has just announced that developers will now be in charge of their own pricing on Steam. They can run sales, offer discounts and promote their games without talking a Valve representative. This is the beginning of...

Steam is beginning to embrace free-to-play games in what has been a bastion of upfront paid-for games. So it is incredibly pleasing to see a game I have been working on for nearly three years become the second...

I’ve been working on Stronghold Kingdoms for over two years. It went into open beta late last year. Firefly has now opened a second world and released a new trailer of the game that takes a PC...

I think March will be an exciting month. I will finally be able to start talking about two projects I have been working on for months. The first is Stronghold Kingdoms, the castle-building MMO from Firefly Studios,...

I don’t normally cover product launches at Gamesbrief (this is a blog about the business of games after all), but this announcement of the launch of Stronghold Kingdoms from Firefly Studios is different for several reasons: Firefly...