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Booming casual games business gets its own trade website

Intent Media, publisher of Develop and MCV, launches CasualGaming.biz

MCV publisher Intent Media has launched a new website for retailers, publishers and developers – targeting the casual games space.

Called CasualGaming.biz, the new trade site will cater to everyone in the business of selling, developing and distributing casual games for PC, console, mobile and interactive TV formats.

The site will feature the latest breaking news and content posted throughout the working day, regular interviews, features, analysis, statistics and much more.

Along with a twice-weekly email newsletter sent to over 18,000 games industry professionals, CasualGaming.biz also boasts a mix of unique features. These include a marketplace for upcoming and established developers to showcase their latest games to prospective publishing partners.

CasualGaming.biz also hosts a jobs board, a community blog and industry directory.

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Develop editor Michael French has been appointed executive editor of the site with mcvuk.com editor Tim Ingham acting as launch editor.

A partnership has also been finalised with the Seattle-based Casual Games Association.

“We have created CasualGaming.biz to serve a long-established, yet under-exposed games sector that everyone from retail to the biggest global publishers are investing in right now,” said the new site’s executive editor Michael French.

interesting...

posted by May 01, 2008 at 1:12 pm
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I shall be checking this out. Feel like I need an education in this. I have been in the business for 10 years and a gamer for longer, but really don't understand this whole 'casual gaming' thing. It certainly seems to be a phrase that gets bandied about quite a bit and in a gamers eyes is possibly a by-word for sub-standard product in many cases.

With this "casual" market growing, does anyone else feel like the specialist press is getting more and more marginalised? Is it as relevant to the market as a whole?

Carnival Games has a Metacritic score of 56 and Game Party 25 and yet both have been tremendously succesful.

"Bad" games have often sold, nothing new there, but I believe we will see more and more titles (judged by the old standard) as 'bad games' to be leading the market.

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Re: interesting...

posted by Anon May 01, 2008 at 2:15 pm
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As a new publisher I am hoping our products appeal to the casual gamer as well as the hardcore gaming fraternity.

I am aiming and hoping to bring our games to a new audience that have a fleeting interest in games and don't want to pay a hefty price for the privilige.

I can't comment on the aforementioned games which would appear to have a casual theme running through them but I would assume that targeting casual games at the right audience and outlets is where it's core future success lies. A hardcore gamer is going to be alot more critiacl and dissect a casual game than a casual gamer I suspect.

I may be wrong but that is my viewpoint

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MCV is the leading trade news and community site for all professionals working within the UK and international video games market. It reaches everyone from store manager to CEO, covering the entire industry. MCV is published by Intent Media, which specialises in entertainment, leisure and technology markets

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