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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.
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.
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.
Friday Casual Games Weekly News Roundup
The rumor is that THQ is acquiring casual game retail publisher Elephant Entertainment. Mochi Ads (think Google Adsense for casual games) raises $4 million in funding; that's not a rumor.
In other news, there are more articles about casual games and women, and casual game developers are going ga-ga over the iPhone SDK.
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!
Friday Casual Games Weekly News Roundup
Welcome to Friday's casual games news roundup. Among the top headline this week: RealNetworks acquires Trymedia, Jagex launches the online gaming community FunOrb Games, and GameSpot interviews gaming legends Sid Meier (Civilization, Railroad Tycoon) and Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese restaurants.)
Friday Casual Games Weekly News Roundup
There were plenty of interesting casual game headlines to report this week. Mystery Case Files: Madame Fate is no longer exclusive to BigFishGames.com - you now can get it on other online portals as well as Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy and other retail stores. Reflexive's Russell Carroll shares some shocking game piracy figures in his latest Gamasutra column. Sean Ryan has some interesting reflections on the recent Casual Connect Europe conference in Amsterdam, and don't forget Gamezebo's interview with game designer Georgina Bensley of Hanako Games, the creator of Cute Knight and Fatal Hearts.
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.
Friday Casual Games Weekly News Roundup
It's Friday, which means it's time for our weekly news roundup. Plenty of interesting features this week, including an interview with author James Patterson about his upcoming casual game series Women's Murder Club, a 2007 casual game retrospective courtesy of Gamedaily, and a couple of articles revisiting the age-old question of how to market games to women.
Friday Casual Games Weekly News Roundup
Welcome to our weekly news roundup, where we bring you casual game headlines from around the web. Gamasutra interviews Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov, Gamezebo chats with The Game Equation's Brian Meidell Andersen, and MediaPost ponders what casual games and pharmaceuticals have in common. These stories and more behind the cut.
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