At Wednesday's "Game Power" panels during this year's CES, attendees heard experts' thoughts on every gaming buzzword in the book -- from social, to mobile, to massive, and beyond. One such discussion centered around "casual gaming," that ill-defined, oft-maligned phrase that gets core gamers in an uproar, and puts dollar signs in publishers' eyes. Among [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, December 13, 2008
I hate to admit it, but I seem to be one of the few who have remained immune to the Peggle phenomenon. I don't even know what it's about! Valve are about to set me straight as they have collaborated with PopCap, casual game developer extraordinaire, in order to bring you Peggle Extreme, their classic [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the kitchen... Mama has recruited you to handle some yard work instead. Majesco Entertainment has today announced that Gardening Mama, the "first offshoot" of the popular Cooking Mama series, will arrive on Nintendo DS this March. From the screenshots and press release (after the jump), [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Here's a fun experiment you can do at home! Go to Google and search for Arkanoid. You should see some five-dozen free online flash games, each one implementing one or two new wrinkles into the classic brickout-with-powerups archetype. Now, open each one of those games in a new tab, and attempt to play every one [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 2, 2008
It's pretty cut-and-dried: Nintendo has an immense load of WiiWare games coming down the pipe, over 100 in all; Downloadable games aren't receiving their due, Peggle in particular sorely neglected by major U.S. gaming outlets; and here we are with a chip on our shoulder and something to prove. With only 512MB of flash [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 14, 2008
A research group at Carnegie Mellon University debuted [via Slashdot] a new website dedicated to harnessing the gaming power of users to advance computer science. Today, the group launched gwap.com (Games With A Purpose). The objective of the site is to take tasks that computers are unable to perform adequately and present them to humans [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Shortly after another Japanese luminary spoke of the , Hideo Kojima, during a press conference announcing [via Kotaku] the completion of development of Metal Gear Solid, discussed the state of the game industry and how the Japanese domination of the industry is evaporating.
Continue reading...Monday, May 12, 2008
In a study commissioned by PopCap--but that PopCap has not influenced in any way, apparently--a team of academics observed that casual games have positive effects on people's moods. The findings were presented at the Games for Health conference in Baltimore by Carmen Russioniello and Jennifer Parks.
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 22, 2008
By the power of Bejeweled, you are healed! The miracle tonic that is video games has found another way to benefit society. Following last week's report that the Wii's physical gameplay could help rehabilitate burn victims, today a press release from casual gaming portal Big Fish Games has announced that casual, puzzle-oriented games can be [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 14, 2008
In one of the more curious game announcements in some time, Big Blue Bubble has announced that the home design game Home Sweet Home is going to be released for WiiWare.
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