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Casual News – Feb. 13, 2009

Amazon’s $9.99 price point for casual games continues to spark discussion and debate; several companies announce new games at Casual Connect Hamburg; and Farm Frenzy developer Melesta becomes Alawar’s fifth in-house game studio. These headlines and more behind the cut.

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May 6, 2009
Interview with Kirill Plotnikov, Alawar Entertainment
By Joel Brodie
Alawar Entertainment is a company on a roll - especially in its native country, Russia, where it owns more than 80 percent of the casual gaming marketshare. After absorbing five studios over the past two years, the company boasted during Casual Connect in Hamburg that it planned to release 50 titles in 2009. Gamezebo spoke with Kirill Plotnikov, Alawar's VP of Publishing, to get the scoop on what kind of impact the company is having on casual games in Russia, Eastern Europe and beyond.
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June 22, 2006
Interview with Jessica Tams
By Joel Brodie
A couple years ago, when I worked at Yahoo! Games, I used to meet once a month for breakfast with the top folks at other major game companies. Ostensibly we were there to discuss forming a trade association for casual games, but to be honest, we ended up achieving little (bummer) and eating a lot free scrumptious omelets (nice). Then about a year ago, Jessica Tams, Vice President, Product Planning at Skilljam / FUN Technologies, launched the Casual Games Association. In the process, she also started Casuality, a conference taking place in Seattle next week for those who create and distribute casual games in both the United States and Europe. Recently I sat down with Jessica to learn more.