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Video games are largely reserved for recreational purposes as many people find them a great way to unwind after a hard day spent at the office or doing other things that weren't that fun. But lately there has been an “invasion” of sorts of fun and addictive video games from which we cannot escape not... |
21 August 2009
12:41 GMT |
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With traditional entertainment avenues struggling for viewers and revenue, more and more are turning to the Internet as an alternative source of income. At the same time the gaming industry has so far managed to stay clear of the ill effects of the current economic conditions. So bringing those two together makes sen... |
4 August 2009
09:30 GMT |
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In a move that will threaten the productivity of the whole wide world, it seems that World of Warcraft developer Blizzard has hired former Xbox Live Arcade manager and PopCap vice president Greg Canessa and has placed him in an executive position in the company. After managing the Xbox Live Arcade ever since the rel... |
12 May 2009
02:51 GMT |
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PopCap Games, the company that profits the most from the increased popularity of casual games, has released all the information a player needs related to the launch of its flagship title, Peggle, on the Xbox Live Arcade service provided by Microsoft for gamers who have bought an Xbox 360 console. The videogame is set... |
10 March 2009
08:16 GMT |
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The handheld gaming market is currently dominated by two Japanese products, Nintendo's DS and Sony's PlayStation Portable. While both may seem pretty similar, meaning that they focus only on gaming, their target markets are very different. While the PSP tries to lure in hardcore gamers with popular titles, ... |
23 February 2009
02:27 GMT |
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The Nintendo Wii is a sales phenomenon and, for the past two years, has almost single-handedly been responsible for the increase in popularity of gaming and the whole industry behind it. The fact that, even after so much time, the console is still meeting huge demand has proven that casual gaming is the biggest segme... |
11 February 2009
03:28 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has just announced that it plans to release two new games in its MySims franchise. The two will be called MySims Racing and MySims Party and will arrive on the Nintendo DS handheld and the Nintendo Wii home console sometime in 2009. Sims 3 is also getting released in the first part of 2009.MySims Part... |
8 January 2009
17:41 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is definitely one of the biggest companies in the whole gaming industry, with studios developing titles for every market, be it hardcore or casual. Although the North American company didn't have the best reputation when it came to how it treated its franchises, things are starting to look up, as... |
29 December 2008
02:45 GMT |
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SEGA announces the launch of a website called PlaySega that will allow gamers to play a wide variety of casual titles. Initially, the gaming portal will be available in North America and in Europe. All the games that will be available from SEGA are set to be free of charge. There will be a lot of genres: arcade, word... |
10 December 2008
05:35 GMT |
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The day that Hello Kitty fans have been waiting for is finally upon us. The world's favorite mouth less kitten is starring in a Nintendo DS game which has shipped to North American stores, the first step towards domination of the videogaming market. The game is created Empire Interactive and is published by Atar... |
12 November 2008
17:51 GMT |
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Telltale Games is one of the leading developers of episodic games, with series such as the very popular Sam and Max, or the new Strong Bad franchise, which is already gaining a lot of fans these days. The company has always stressed the importance of episodic gaming in the casual market and has gained a lot of praise... |
3 November 2008
04:39 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is a big gaming company, with studios and departments for almost every niche of the game market. First there’s the EA Sports Division, which creates titles based on a lot of sports games – from American football to European soccer or basketball, nothing is left unexplored. Then there&rsquo... |
17 October 2008
02:39 GMT |
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PopCap announces that a new game will be launched in the Bejeweled franchise. It will be called Bejeweled Twist and it is the first fresh addition to the series since 2004.Initially, PopCap will only make the game available through its own site and the full unveiling will take place in Seattle, on October 27.Since th... |
30 September 2008
03:36 GMT |
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A new NPD study shows that more and more girls are interested in videogames and especially to online virtual worlds. The main attraction is the built in social element that they exhibit and the fact that they are easy to play.1,541 girls were questioned as part of the study and over half of them claimed that they spe... |
26 September 2008
03:05 GMT |
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Gamecock Media Group announces it is establishing a new game brand, Upshot, which will begin its publishing activity this fall.The Gamecock brand is said to be focusing now on hardcore games, like the upcoming Legendary, trying to push the envelope in both graphics and in gameplay through the games that it publishes.... |
25 September 2008
03:55 GMT |
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PopCap, the well known developer of casual games that also dabbled in the business of conducting surveys that show how good its own releases are for you, has just launched the sequel to Peggle, one of the most addictive games of 2007. The new title is called Peggle Nights and you can get it from the developer&r... |
19 September 2008
03:30 GMT |
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Big Fish Games, one of the most important casual game developers and creator of the Mystery Case Files series, announces that it has attracted $83.3 million dollars in expansion funds from Balderton Capital, General Catalyst Partners and Salmon River Capital. Reuters reports that this is the biggest line of credit ob... |
15 September 2008
03:16 GMT |
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Electronic Arts' Casual Entertainment division has announced that it plans to introduce a new franchise of casual games, based on the For Dummies brand created by Wiley Publishing. The development duties will be handled by Beanbag Studios and the games will target the Nintendo DS and the PC.The first release in ... |
8 August 2008
02:39 GMT |
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If there is one solid competitor against MMO games on PC, that is the casual game genre: they take less time to play than the regular games and they are meant to deliver a relaxing experience rather than a challenge, like the more hardcore titles or MMOs. However, it is a general rule of thumb for these casual online... |
4 August 2008
17:06 GMT |
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There's a huge list somewhere out there of cooking games that have tried to copy the success of Cooking Mama. Moreover, even Cooking Mama has announced sequels and spin-offs aimed at different consoles and meant to bring in more revenue from this particular type of casual game. It goes without saying that, unles... |
29 July 2008
14:06 GMT |
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The number of casual gamers keeps growing on a daily basis and developers are striving to keep up with the pace, while trying to create viable solutions to attract as many people as possible. However, we all know that, usually, there are just a few casual game concepts cloned over and over again - and the more copies... |
28 July 2008
04:14 GMT |
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Paramount is the latest Hollywood studio to get into gaming. And if you've seen movies like "Clueless", "Mean Girls" or "Pretty in Pink", then you're gonna love the videogame offerings that Paramount will create and distribute. And this is just the first wave of games that comes from the studio. Based on th... |
28 July 2008
04:12 GMT |
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Casual game publisher extraordinaire Majesco says that it is planning to make a move to Facebook, in an effort to broaden its portfolio of games and to attract a bigger audience. It has chosen developers Rocketbowl and the Shapshot Studio of Large Animal Games to create Bananagrams. The game, due for an August releas... |
25 July 2008
03:21 GMT |
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Zuma is another example of a brilliant and simple idea that has turned into a bottomless sack of cash. The gameplay can entice anyone in a matter of seconds and won't let go for days on end. There are people who spent several days without sleeping just to play this masterpiece. The words of the developer are bes... |
14 July 2008
08:30 GMT |
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In the battle for casual gamers, Microsoft is stepping up its rhetoric, specifically targeting the Nintendo Wii. Aaron Greenberg, the director of product management for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live at Microsoft, has told Gamasutra that those using the Wii to play casual games will end up "want[ing] to graduate to an Xbox 3... |
7 July 2008
03:06 GMT |
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Majesco, one of the best known creators and publishers of casual games, is announcing its new title, Marker Man Adventures, which is being developed by Glyphic Entertainment. It is based on the concept of drawing as a gaming device, making players use their drawing skills to solve certain puzzle and physics challenge... |
3 July 2008
02:46 GMT |
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Europeans seem to prefer racing and football games (European football, that is) instead of the first person shooter and adventure action games that Americans love. The tendency towards less violent titles is also reflected in an increased relevance of casual titles.The International Development Group put out some dat... |
27 June 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Is there anyone doubting the above stated fact? And I'm not talking about this kind of games being good for those who obsessively play games, forgetting to eat and sleep, but good for the common people who might play games for no more than 1 or 2 hours a day, on average. A new survey commissioned by the game div... |
20 June 2008
19:06 GMT |
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Ubisoft sends word that it is launching a new division in charge of creating Nintendo Wii titles, with a casual audience in mind and with rather simple gameplay mechanics. The division will be called Play Zone and it already has a videogame under development, called Sports Party.Sports Party seems to borrow a lot fro... |
20 June 2008
16:06 GMT |
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My name is Bugsy the Clumsy, the superstar of the recently released casual game Sport Dash. Yes, I know, it sounds strange for a guy named like that to have such a job. Actually, the developers wanted to be funny. Or make fun of a clumsy, overweight fella like me, I don't know. Or they just hired me because my s... |
7 June 2008
03:31 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has revealed that the Hasbro rights it has acquired are being used in the creation of a new videogame experience aimed at the whole family. After announcing that Monopoly would get a new videogame version, the producer is now unveiling the upcoming Hasbro Family Game Night.All the content in the game ... |
20 May 2008
14:21 GMT |
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The NPD, already well known for the sales charts that it puts out every month regarding the console market and the games market, is creating a new report that deals with the online subscription market. The results of the first study of this kind are now out and they paint a very interesting picture of the state of th... |
14 May 2008
14:41 GMT |
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There are quite some titles out there using the name of the renowned detective as a hook and most of them really try to bring you an experience as close to the real thing as possible. I'm talking about all the classic point and click adventure games that were released - and you must have tried at least one of th... |
8 May 2008
04:11 GMT |
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Can an Internet portal which is aimed at hardcore gamers really be successful? Most people will tell you that a hardcore player will stay in his house, surrounded by his Xbox 360 and his PlayStation 3 and play high-end shooters, while the casual gamers have embraced the online portal world and the Nintendo Wii. But i... |
7 May 2008
18:06 GMT |
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Game development, like it or not, remains a territory largely off limits as it involves hard coding. And if this is the general rule, Microsoft offers the exception. The Redmond company has evolved its web and mashup tool in order to accommodate game creation. Now, the fact of the matter is that users won't be a... |
7 May 2008
12:51 GMT |
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THQ has announced that kids cable network channel Nickelodeon will provide inspiration for a variety of games. THQ also released data to show how the partnership between the two entities has generated 1 billion dollars in sales and has helped ship 50 million game units worldwide.2008 will see a variety of games that ... |
6 May 2008
14:06 GMT |
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After the release of GTA IV, many wanted to interview people from Rockstar to get a reaction from them on issues such as the game's reception, the violence talk in the media related to GTA IV and the general feel of the game.Dan Houser, Vice President of Rockstar Games and co-writer of GTA IV, recently spoke to ... |
6 May 2008
03:07 GMT |
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East Carolina University's Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies has recently announced the findings of a study aimed at measuring the impact playing casual games has on the individual. The results should be taken with a pinch of salt as the study itself was funded by the most successful of casual publish... |
29 April 2008
03:54 GMT |
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Oberon Media, well known as being one of the more successful casual game publishers, has announced that it would be moving its online presence to iplay.com, as part of renaming its publishing division I-play, uniting the publishing operations under the brand of a mobile games publisher it acquired.Oberon describes th... |
23 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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A new report focusing on gaming habits among "casual gamers" has surfaced, from a newly launched firm named Interpret. Using its syndicated Gameasure service, which has been designed to track a variety of metrics for videogames across multiple gaming platforms, such as user demographics, reach and frequency, and dura... |
6 March 2008
05:07 GMT |
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YoYo Games, one of the biggest casual game encyclopedias, has announced its next major developer competition and has put up for grabs a prize of $1750, for anybody who is interested in creating a nice, original, casual game. The twist comes with the fact that you and even your grandma could basically create a YoYo Ga... |
4 February 2008
06:25 GMT |
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Forget about the Ultimate Extras! Are you ready for the Windows Vista Plus Pack? You had better be! One thing that Ultimate Extras was, looking back to 2007, is a huge disappointment for users of the high-end, Ultimate SKU of Windows Vista. Having released just four "extra" items for the Ultimate edition of the late... |
16 January 2008
04:11 GMT |
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This is the best news for casual gamers all over the world: any PopCap game can now be purchased for 50% off their regular value. No, this is not an ever lasting discount - it starts today and it will end on the 3rd of January. But this is still great news for all the Zuma, Insaniquarium or Peggle fans out there.Whe... |
20 December 2007
04:36 GMT |
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I-play, the mobile entertainment company, revealed the results of a recently conducted survey which shows that 38% of casual online games customers also play games on their mobile phones and 45% of them would play their preferred online games on mobiles, if they were available. 22% of the respondents said "yes" and... |
30 October 2007
10:03 GMT |
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PopCap.com's latest and largest survey of casual gamers has recently revealed that nearly three quarters (72%) of parents/grandparents forbid their kids/grandkids to play hardcore video games. Why? Only they know exactly, but it has been proved that "parents tend to be somewhat more protective of their daughters... |
11 October 2007
03:17 GMT |
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Electronic Arts and Hasbro have just made available a strategic licensing agreement that promises to transform the interactive family entertainment landscape. Basically, what the agreement does is that it grants EA the exclusive worldwide rights to create digital games based upon a huge lineup of Hasbro's intell... |
10 August 2007
10:48 GMT |
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Namco Networks and Big Fish have decided to join forces for bringing their game titles to mobile phone users in North America. Both companies are well known developers and providers of mobile game content."Big Fish's games have been hugely successful in the online gaming market, and we believe this popularity wi... |
17 July 2007
05:27 GMT |
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