Entries in 'casual' (169)
EA: Mobile needs more core games
Travis Boatman, EA Mobile VP of Worldwide Studios, claims there is huge market potential for core-focused mobile games.
Zattikka gains Monty Python licence
And now for something completely different – casual games studio Zattikka has acquired the licence to produce Monty Python titles.
Multiformat games portal emerges
A new casual online games portal has emerged driven by a host of industry veterans.
Warner bemoans AAA-to-social switch
Development staff at Warner Bros’ new Montreal outfit are said to be angered at management’s decision to shift the studio’s focus to social and mobile games.
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150m users for Bigpoint
Bigpoint, the games portal site and developer, has reached 150m registered users, an expansion of fifty per cent on the 100m users it had in January of this year.
EA tipped for Chillingo acquisition
The booming casual games sector could be on the verge of another blockbuster acquisition, with rumours claiming that EA is preparing a swoop for successful iPhone publisher Chillingo.
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SCVNGR teams up with GameStop
SCVNGR has announced it has signed a new partnership with US retail giant GameStop.
DeNA buys ngmoco for $400m
Japanese social games firm DeNA is to acquire ngmoco for $400 million, the company has confirmed.
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Sonic ‘has to consider’ younger fans
Speaking to MCV, Sega’s Sonic’s brand director David Corless has countered claims that Sonic fans “are hard to please”, adding that the publisher is now obligated to tailor modern Sonic ...
‘Game biz needs better role models’
The Brit behind one of the largest kids games sites in the world says the industry is short on business heroes.
Rare: ‘Kinect will go beyond casual games’
Kinect’s launch line-up provides no foretoken to the wild ideas that the peripheral will provide in the future, a tech executive at Rare believes.
Great games 'will defeat Zynga'
PopCap CEO Dave Roberts has blasted social gaming giant Zynga, claiming that the Peggle company's quality of product ultimately betters the FarmVille outfit's business model.
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Atari GO targets casual games success
The next stage in Atari’s most recent reinvention has been revealed. It’s called Atari GO, and it’s designed to help increase the publisher’s footprint in the growing casual games space.
Coronation Street game hits Facebook
Long-running UK television soap Coronation Street is to become the first such programme to get its own dedicated social network game. Corrie Nation is to initially run on Facebook and ...
Why Move will do what EyeToy didn’t
With a wide assorted of supported titles at launch and plenty more in the pipeline, Move has the ability to please those core fans as well as appeal to this ...
White Room gets S.A.D.
NEW casual games firm White Room Games has signed a distribution deal with German publisher S.A.D.
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Rising Star announces GO Series
Rising Star and Gamebridge have announced they will launch a new range of DSiWare titles next week.
Plants Vs Zombies confirmed for DS
Plants Vs Zombies will be released for Nintendo DS in the US in January 2011.
Zynga buys Conduit Labs
Zynga has announced it has acquired Conduit Labs, a Boston-based social games developer.
Facebook hiring games boss
Facebook is racing to find a star games industry exec that will broker deals with publishers and development studios.
Another ‘fresh start’ for Atari
The men currently guiding the troubled ship that is Atari have – once again – outlined the company’s intentions to navigate out of continuously troubled water and back into a ...
Namco brings casual in-house
In a nod to the ever growing importance of the casual games sector, it has been confirmed that social games publishing division Namco Networks America is to be merged with ...
PopCap welcomes new director
Casual games specialist PopCap has announced that Rick Fox has become the seventh member of its board of directors.
Disney acquires Playdom in $763m deal
Disney will acquire social games giant Playdom for a fee that could rise to $763.2 million.
Kinect paves way for ‘expansion beyond the core’
On the face of it Microsoft’s £129.99 RRP for Kinect suggests that the company may not be chasing the family market so much as striving to further monetise its existing ...
