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Mass Market Game Journalists Aren’t Our Target Audience

Posted on April 24, 2008 - Filed Under A Look Back, Casual Gaming, Editorial, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, Retro, Xbox Live Arcade | Leave a Comment

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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting, keep it casual!Twelve years ago the game industry had a growth spurt: 3D graphics. Although the concept of 3D graphics existed prior to 1996, the Nintendo 64, PlayStation and Sega Saturn stepped up the production value of video [...]

Casual Games and Brain Training

Posted on August 30, 2007 - Filed Under A Look Back, Casual Gaming, Editorial, HandHeld, Puzzles | Leave a Comment

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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.” [...]

Casual vs. Hardcore: What’s The Difference?

Posted on August 29, 2007 - Filed Under A Look Back, Casual Gaming, Editorials, Off Topic | Leave a Comment

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There seems to be two camps of gamers, similar to that of the Dark and Light side of the force. The Casual Gamers are considered the “light side” of the force while the “dark side” is where gamers truly ‘own.’
Why must we look at the two types of gaming habits as ‘good’ and ‘bad’ or [...]

Top 20 Video Game Power-Ups

Posted on June 25, 2007 - Filed Under A Look Back, Editorials | 3 Comments

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Look back at the history of video games and witness when a video game went from simple entertainment to an addictive fury of great gaming. PONG was a hot title in its day but it was the only title, thus comparing it to other titles wasn’t really a possibility.
How, then, did they take new titles [...]

Top 10 Casual Games You Can’t Forget

Posted on June 19, 2007 - Filed Under A Look Back, Editorials | Leave a Comment

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1. Tetris
A little title designed by a, now famous, Russian programmer Alexey Pajitnov. The game consists of some falling blocks which you spin around and lock into place to complete “lines” on a puzzle board. The description sounds very simplistic, but as we all know, Tetris is anything but easy.
How many versions of Tetris have [...]