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	February 10, 2012

		Road to the IGF: Lucky Frame's Pugs Luv Beats

		Analyst questions validity of unusual January NPD results [3]

		DICE 2012: Blizzard's Pearce on World Of Warcraft's launch hangover


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	February 10, 2012

		Principles of an Indie Game Bottom Feeder [19]

		Postmortem: CyberConnect 2's Solatorobo: Red the Hunter [1]

		Jerked Around by the Magic Circle - Clearing the Air Ten Years Later [39]


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	February 10, 2012

		Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC Audio Tools Engineer

		Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC World Wide Studios Technical Product Manager

		Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC Senior Software Application Engineer

		Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC Senior Gamer Insights Specialist

		Telltale Games Core Technology - Senior Systems Engineer

		High 5 Games Technical Artist

Kai Lukoff's Blog

Kai Lukoff is an analyst at BloggerInsight and a founding blogger of China Social Games. He is a graduate of Stanford University, where he studied politics, economics, and Mandarin. Follow Kai on Twitter (@klukoff).

Kai Lukoff's Comments

Comment In: Pay with FaceBook and Why Pigs Fly [Blog - 03/01/2010 - 04:51]

I think your estimates of ...
I think your estimates of Facebook's profitability off. Inside Facebook estimates 2009 revenues at 600-700 million: http://www.insidefacebook.com/2010/03/02/facebook-made-up-to-700-million-in-2009-on-track-towards-1-1-billion-in-2010/ Moreover, it's on track for over 1bn in 2010, partially on the strength of advertising rev. from social game developers. This makes it easy to see how Facebook can quickly realize 500m in ...

Comment In: Zynga and the End of the Beginning [Blog - 12/18/2009 - 07:45]
Excellent analysis I agree, today's ... Excellent analysis I agree, today's social games are thin and better described as viral than social. I'd add that I do think games will become more truly social, making use of synchronous gameplay and live chat features in the near future. But I'm not convinced that advanced or niche games ...