This guest post comes from Kaila Colbin, CMO of Minimonos, a virtual world for kids. If you would like to publish a guest post on GAMESbrief, get in touch. We’re just like you. We’re a start-up, so,...

How much is the online games industry worth? It’s a tough question, and is plagued by a difficulty of definitions. For example, Inside Social Games estimates that only half of the $1.6 billion they forecast to be...

DISCLAIMER: I’m a non-executive director at nDreams. nDreams announced today that it had had 5 million visits to Xi, the Alternate Reality Game that launched in March 2009, The game, which combined puzzles and mini-games in Home...

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...

The Chinese Ministries of Culture and Commerce announced on Monday that the trading of virtual currency for real world cash is to be banned outright, in the name of reducing illegal gambling and money laundering. From the...

UPDATE: Chris Nuttall of the FT reports that the Changyou IPO priced at the top of the range ($16), and that the shares had risen 25 per cent by the end of the first day’s trading. A...

Surely a sign of things to come – the BBC has reported that Swedish-based MMO, Entropia Universe, has been granted an official banking license. The license means that it can offer full banking services to customers including...