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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.

Posted on Jun 1, 2008, 8:17pm

Friday Casual Games Weekly News Roundup

Welcome to Friday's casual games news roundup. Sony announced 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 article about game design and consumption in India, a survey of in-game ads in 2007, and Sandlot's Daniel Bernstein's reflections on the Super Granny franchise.

Posted on Jun 1, 2008, 8:17pm

Friday Casual Games Weekly News Roundup

It's Friday, which means it's time for our weekly casual games news roundup. Among the highlights: Adweek Magazine predicts casual gaming as a hot trend for 2008, along with such things as handmade goods and branded entertainment. Also, Jayisgames.com has announced its fifth Flash Game Design Competition based around the theme UPGRADE.

Posted on Jun 1, 2008, 8:17pm

Friday Casual Games Weekly News Roundup

After the pre-holiday flurry of announcements and new game releases, things were pretty quiet this week. That said, we still have a few tidbits of casual gaming news to bring you in this Friday's roundup. Gamezebo contributor Scott Steinberg wrote an interesting article for Business Week about marketing games to minorities, while the Colorado Springs Gazette profiles several female casual gamers in an article called "Brain break."

Posted on Jun 1, 2008, 8:17pm

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.

Posted on Jun 1, 2008, 8:17pm

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.

Posted on Jun 1, 2008, 8:17pm

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.

Posted on Jun 1, 2008, 8:17pm

Friday Casual Games Weekly News Roundup

It's Friday, which means it's time for our casual games weekly news roundup. Highligts: Reflexive's Russell Carroll weighs in on the issue of cloning, and Rady Strude, heading of gaming strategy at Intel, says "The PC will kill the consoles" in an interview with Dean Takahashi in the Mercury News. Click READ MORE for the complete list of headlines.

Posted on Jun 1, 2008, 8:17pm

Friday Casual Games Weekly News Roundup

It's Friday, which means it's time for our weekly news roundup where we bring you all the industry headlines and features that were fit to print. Click READ MORE to see what went on in the casual game universe this week.

Posted on Jun 1, 2008, 8:17pm

Friday Casual Games Weekly News Roundup

It's Friday, which means it's time for our weekly casual games news roundup. Click READ MORE to see all the casual gaming news that made headlines this week.

Posted on Jun 1, 2008, 8:17pm

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