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.
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Links:
[1] http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2008/4/prweb832334.htm
[2] http://jayisgames.com/archives/2008/04/cgdc5_results.php
[3] http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080408005460&newsLang=en
[4] http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=841691
[5] http://www.cnbc.com/id/24051324/
[6] http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2008/4/prweb827054.htm
[7] http://www.lita.org/ala/pressreleases2008/april2008/nlwgaming08.cfm
[8] http://stlouis.dbusinessnews.com/shownews.php?newsid=155681&type_news=latest
[9] http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/business/17284784.html
[10] http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=18184
[11] http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3611/the_casual_games_manifesto.php
[12] http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=18114
[13] http://www.wral.com/business/local_tech_wire/venture/story/2705794/
[14] http://www.gamespot.com/news/6188796.html
[15] http://www.gamezebo.com/admin/content/widgets_assigner/3118