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Sure most of you have seen, but some of the big news for Microsoft at GDC this year was around allowing XNA Game Studio games to be shared via the community on Xbox Live. You can find the official release here , and should also make a point of reading...
Just wanted to let you know I'm at the Seattle Casual Games Conference all this week... and sadly, without net connectivity! <sigh> So I'm unlikely to be writing much up as the iPhone keyboard just isn't up to a long blog post. In all...
Sorry - just couldn't resist the title... and it's all the funnier because there's really nothing to beware here. Just that inflammatory yellow journalistic streak taking a cheap shot. Anyway, just saw over on N'Gai's blog his announce of Nintendo's Wiiware...
So I'm curious - how do most of you get your casual games to play? Do you play primarily on the PC and use sites such as RealArcade , MSN Games , or Yahoo games ? Or are you a "new generation" casual console player, and prefer getting your casual games...
Apologies for the lack of posts recently - it's been a rather busy time at work as I caught up from my Peru trip, and I've been traveling all over the place for a variety of work reasons. I'm actually returning from San Francisco even as we speak, and...
Was pretty excited to see this post on Evil Avatar pointing to Jeff Minter's blog discussing the topic. For those of you who don't know, Jeff created Tempest for the Atari Jaguar - probably the sole reason to own the system (and the reason I still have...
Was really excited to see the reaction to yesterday's announcement at Leipzig about some classic boardgames coming to Live Arcade. To quote a Gamespot article : The announced games include the civilization-building Settlers of Catan, the tile-based city...
Just saw on gamesindustry.biz that PopCap is going to be distributing many of their casual titles through Valve's Steam ESD (or Electronic Software Distribution) network. Pretty interesting move for both partners. PopCap finds another channel to distribute...
It's been interesting watching the growth of casual games, and the pointing to that growth (and extensions such as Yahoo Games, Live Arcade, and others) as being the potential savior of a gaming industry struggling with rising costs of development and...