Friday Casual Game News Round Up

Every Friday, we scour the Web for all the casual game news fit to print.

Gamezebo will blogging LIVE from the Austin Game Conference next week. If anything happens in Austin related to casual games, we’ll tell you first! Unless we’re eating BBQ at that time, in which case you may have to wait a few moments. Priorities. . .

Gamasutra

• Q&A: Cai Looks Beyond “Hardcore Vs. Casual”. This is a very interesting analysis that claims that people can be broken into six categories of game players, not just Hardcore v. Casual.

The Olympian

• “Free” casual game sites can lure you in.

Village Voice

• Cubicle Salvation: Casual Game Sites – The Sims Pinball; Mario Halloween.

Gameindustry.biz

• Ohana Games releases “Music Challenge”

• Game Tunnel Magazine Launched. One of the best Web sites supporting Indie developers launches a cool new magazine. I encourage you to take a look at it.

Sys-Con Media

• PlayFirst Introduces Its First Multiplayer Game, CONNECT FOUR (TM) CITIES

Yahoo! Finance

• Exent Technologies Enables In-Game Advertising for Merscom Games. This is an interesting under-the-radar announcement about ads in casual games that could have a big impact in the future. I’ve personally worked with Exent in the past and know they build amazing technology company, so know whatever they are working may be cool.

No news on the rumor I posted last week, but I assure you, it’s legit. It is a rumor but hopefully something will be announced soon 🙂

Know any good news? Tip us at [email protected] and if we post, we’ll say it came from you.

Joel Brodie