Posted on August 16, 2008 - Filed Under Social Networking, facebook | Leave a Comment
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting, keep it casual!Sega of America CEO, Simon Jeffery, thinks big publishers publishing games on social networking sites will cause the people to leave the social network. He feels publishing games to the social networks, such as Facebook, can [...]
Posted on August 6, 2008 - Filed Under Industry News, Match Three, Social Networking, facebook | Leave a Comment
iWin is getting on the social games wagon and offering developers of single player casual games an opportunity to turn their games into multi-player social games. The first well known game to take advantage of this is Jewel Quest II.
The Games Gone Social (GaGoSo) framework is the framework that allows the single player games to [...]
Posted on July 31, 2008 - Filed Under Industry News, Social Networking, Word Games, facebook | 2 Comments
Only 48 hours after Scrabulous was taken off of Facebook for US and Canadian users, it is back with a different name. The creators Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla took the application down due to threats of a law suit from Hasboro, the owner to the rights of Scrabble.
The creators changed the look of the [...]
Posted on July 23, 2008 - Filed Under Casual Gaming, Social Networking, facebook | Leave a Comment
Facebook users now have the opportunity to kidnap their friends to a select location in the world with the new Kidnap! app. The goal of the game is to kidnap your friends. Once your friends are kidnapped, they need to answer a trivia question about the area they have been kidnapped to.
Players run the Kidnap! [...]
Posted on July 18, 2008 - Filed Under Flash, Industry News, Social Networking | Leave a Comment
Nickelodeon has decided to turn their casual gaming sites, AddictingGames and Shockwave into more of a social site. Both AddictingGames and Shockwave contain flash games for users to play and the next logical step seems to be adding chatting features and avatars to those sites. By adding those features, they can better compete with Kongregate. [...]
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