Sony’s recent corporate presentation was heavily focused on F2P and live-service games. Piers Harding-Rolls has an excellent analysis thread on Twitter, and these 2 charts leaped out at me. That chart shows that more a quarter of PS4 revenue is...
Cryptocurrencies, the blockchain, NFTs and pay-to-earn: 4 separate growth areas that promoters and shysters conflate, to the detriment of us all. The crypto/blockchain/NFT bubble continues apace. Compared to the dot com bubble that burst in 2000, it seems as if...
By Nicholas Lovell on November 26, 2021 I am continuing my quest to understand this third major transition in the technology / games markets in my career (first: the Internet; second: free-to-play; now: the blockchain). I feared that I didn’t...
Twice in my career, I have been at the forefront of massive change. In 2000, I was an Internet analyst at Deutsche Bank advising middle-aged men (and they were all men) on how this new nerdy Internet thing was going...
Many games companies struggle with how to use their metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) effectively. They are conflicted because game metrics have two different purposes: Comparison and Improvement. Improvement I use metrics to help games companies make better games....
By Nicholas Lovell on March 19, 2021 UK trade body UKIE has put out an infographic capturing the size of the UK games market and pegs it at £7 billion in 2020. Looking at the infographic, several points stand out:...
Nicholas Lovell Home > Featured > Joining Hiro Capital as a Venture Specialist By Nicholas Lovell on February 10, 2021 Last week, we announced that I had joined Hiro Capital as a Venture Specialist. Hiro is...
