Posted on August 30, 2007 - Filed Under Industry News, Mobile Phones | Leave a Comment
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting, keep it casual!RealNetworks announced the release of Playman Extreme Running. Playman Extreme Running being launched as RealArcade Extreme Running is the eighth game in the series.
In RealArcade Extreme Running, you experience a whole new sport, parkour. [...]
Posted on August 30, 2007 - Filed Under Industry News | Leave a Comment
Casual games have been plagued by the 99% problem. The 99% problem is the problem of getting more than 1 out of 100 people to purchase the casual game. Only one person out of a hundred that download the trial versions of games will go on to purchase the game. The rest of the [...]
Posted on August 30, 2007 - Filed Under Match Three, Review | Leave a Comment
You are asked to help save the forest from an evil wizard that has enslaved all of the animals of the forest and captured the good fairy in Phantasia II. There are multiple games inside Phantasia II, three to be exact. Each game is represented by a mode, but there are three games because [...]
Posted on August 30, 2007 - Filed Under Editorial, Flash | 1 Comment
Casual games come in many different forms, but two of the most popular are the online flash games and the downloadable games for the PC or Mac. Flash games and the downloadable games each have their positive and negative points.
The flash games are usually very easy to play and don’t require much time to [...]
Posted on August 30, 2007 - Filed Under A Look Back, Casual Gaming, Editorial, HandHeld, Puzzles | Leave a Comment
What is it that draws us to games like Brain Age and Big Brain Academy? Much the same can be said for “thinking puzzles” like Sudoku games. They are designed to make us think, which for many of us is actually a challenge in itself.
We’re not stupid, mind you, but we’re “out of practice.” [...]