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 15, 2008 - Filed Under Flash, facebook | Leave a Comment
MumboJumbo announced the release of Little Farm for Facebook. Little Farm is a matching game that is a bit different from other matching games. The goal is to fill up the trucks with the vegetable on the truck. The player fills the truck by making matches. The matches are made by matching four corners of [...]
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. [...]
Posted on May 23, 2008 - Filed Under Casual Gaming, Editorials, Industry News | 4 Comments
Phil Harrison, former main man at Sony Computer Entertainment, was hired as the president of Infogrames to transform the company and shape the direction of Atari. The future of Atari is taking a new path, perhaps into a more casual “social gaming” online style future.
In a Q&A session with Mr. Harrison, he talks about Alone [...]