The second hand sale of software excites lots of emotive debate: is it a good thing for consumers by giving them choices at more flexible price points, or is it killing publishers? Both?  While that debate continues to rage, a couple of recent legal cases have got me thinking: are second hand software sales actually legal?  Interestingly, one is a US case and the other is a European Union case, so here's the Transatlantic ...

UK games industry body UKIE invited me to speak at their inaugural Thursday@3 series of events last week.  This first event was on the subject of funding games, so I decided to talk about two areas of games finance which have been much underrated recently: project finance and public sources of funding.  

Have a look at my slide-deck below (which newsletter recipients can see here).  Both topics (project finance ...

This is a guest post by Lachlan Kingsford, an Australian games scholar and the brains behind Nerdy Gentleman.  I asked him to tell us a bit about the latest state of play regarding Australian games classification, which I've written about previously.


There is something rotten with the state of gaming in Australia. Unlike other entertainment mediums, games can not be given an R18+ rating or classification. This has two practical ...