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11 May, 2008 |
GameZebo: Friday Casual Games Weekly News Roundup
The biggest headline this week was RealNetworks' announcement of plans to spin off its casual games division into an independant company. Also, Gamelab's K. Thor Jensen writes a casual games business primer called The Truth About The Biz of Casual Games, Microsoft introduces the Popfly Game Creator as an alternative to building games in Adobe Flash, and Steven Spielberg collaborates with EA to launch BOOM BLOX, a casual game for the Nintendo Wii. These headlines and more in our weekly roundup.
11 April, 2008 |
GameZebo: Friday Casual Games Weekly News Roundup
Rebel Monkey's Nick Fortugno discusses the rise of the casual MMO (multi-player online game) at the Indie MMO Developers Conference. Publisher THQ talks about its stake in casual games, and a game called The Last Canopy wins the 5th Casual Gameplay Design Competition from Jayisgames. These headlines and more in our weekly casual games news roundup.
4 April, 2008 |
GameZebo: Friday Casual Games Weekly News Roundup
Game publisher THQ expands its casual portfolio by purchasing Elephant Entertainment and signing an exclusive retail publishing agreement with Oberon Media; AOL launches an online games channel; and Paramount becomes the second movie studio (behind Warner Bros.) to move into the game publishing business. These headlines and more in this edition of our casual news roundup.
28 March, 2008 |
GameZebo: Friday Casual Games Weekly News Roundup
The USA Network and SciFi.com are the latest companies to launch casual games on their websites; Mytopia - a platform that allows people on different social networks (i.e. Facebook and MySpace) to play the same games together - launches; and The Escapist's Andy Chalk writes about his newfound obsession with casual games in Keeping it Casual. These articles and more in our weekly news roundup.
21 March, 2008 |
GameZebo: Friday Casual Games Weekly News Roundup
Casual games will weather the economic recession, according to MSNBC readers who say they'd rather cut back on traveling and eating than playing games. Reflexive Entertainment launches more than 70 Mac games, npost interviews Sandlot Games founder Daniel Bernstein, and Advertising Age gives us an interesting primer on in-game ads. Read these articles and more in our weekly casual games news roundup.
7 March, 2008 |
GameZebo: Friday Casual Games Weekly News Roundup
Among the top headlines this week: Big Fish Game and flash memory manufacturer SanDisk have launched a web site offering casual games that can run off of portable USB flash drives without being installed on a computer. Next Generation does a great job of dissecting the results of an Interpret research study focused on casual gamers, and according to the Electronic Software Association 38% of gamers are female - not bad!
8 February, 2008 |
GameZebo: Friday Casual Games Weekly News Roundup
PopCap talks about Peggle, Double Fusion discusses the future of in-game ad models, and Yo Yo Games announces a new game design contest on the theme of "ancient civilizations." These headlines and more in Gamezebo's Friday weekly news roundup, plus a recap of Casual Connect Europe announcements.
18 January, 2008 |
GameZebo: Friday Casual Games Weekly News Roundup
Welcome to Friday's weekly roundup of casual game headlines from around the web. Keynote speakers have been announced for Casual Connect Europe, execs talk casual games at CES, and Hasbro cracks down on the makers of Scrabulous, one of the most popular applications on Facebook.
11 January, 2008 |
GameZebo: Friday Casual Games Weekly News Roundup
Welcome to Friday's casual games news roundup. Sony at last week's Consumer Electronics Show that it plans to give the 7-year-old PlayStation 2 new life as a casual gaming machine, positioning it as a direct competitor to the Nintendo Wii. Other highlights this week include an interesting about game design and consumption in India, a , and Sandlot's Daniel Bernstein's on the Super Granny franchise.
21 December, 2007 |
GameZebo: Friday Casual Games Weekly News Roundup
Welcome to Friday's weekly news roundup, where we bring you casual gaming headlines from around the web. Among the highlights this week: Indian video game developer FXLabs buys online gaming portal Knibble.com for $3 million, PlayFirst and RockYou partner to release casual games on social networks, Tag Games chats about developing Granny in Paradise, and according to a Turner Investment Partners study, casual games are "leading the charge" in transforming the video game market.
14 December, 2007 |
GameZebo: Friday Casual Games Weekly News Roundup
Friday's the day we bring you a week's worth of casual gaming headlines from around the web. To recap: the Stress Institute says stress can be reduced by playing games - especially funny ones. More than half of U.S. males play videogames according to an NPD survey, and EA says that casual gamers don't read game reviews.
7 December, 2007 |
GameZebo: Friday Casual Games Weekly News Roundup
It's Friday, which means it's time for our casual games weekly news roundup. Click READ MORE for casual game headlnes from around the web.
31 August, 2007 |
GameZebo: Friday Casual Games Weekly News Roundup
Today's the day we bring you casual game news from around the Web. Many of this week's articles revolved around the results of a recent survey by PopCap saying that casual games bring families together. Awww.
24 August, 2007 |
GameZebo: Friday Casual Games Weekly News Roundup
It's Friday, which means it's time to post all the casual game headlines that came in on the newswires this week. Games are now officially more popular than social networking and online video according to Yahoo! More surprisingly, Nokia is apparently still developing games for the N-Gage.
17 August, 2007 |
GameZebo: Friday Casual Games Weekly News Roundup
"Does anyone really like mobile games?" Ouch. These headlines and more in this edition of Friday's Casual Games Weekly News Roundup.
10 August, 2007 |
GameZebo: Friday Casual Games Weekly News Roundup
It's Friday, which means it's time for us to round up all the casual gaming news that crossed our desk this week. EA has a flurry of announcements, and cloning is also a popular topic. Gamezebo's own Joel Brodie wrote which we published on Wednesday, and over at Gamasutra Colin Anderson of the Scottish studio Denki has his say on the cloning issue.
3 August, 2007 |
GameZebo: Friday Casual Games Weekly News Roundup
Friday's the day we bring you casual games stories from around the Web in one tidy package. There was quite a bit of news to report this week, as well as an interesting article in MIT's Technology Review about user-generated content in casual games.