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11/07/06--01:57: Casual Game Statistics (chan 1640676)

Via Spill, via PopCap, a vertiable treasure trove of Casual Games statistics: Player makeup 76% of players are female; 71% are 40 or older and 47% are 50 or older; 46% are college graduates with 14% holding a master’s or PhD; 53% have an annual household income of $50,000 or more; 67% are married and 53% have [...]


11/14/06--04:21: Casual Games Lifetimes (chan 1640676)

The lifetime of the average news story is 36 hours, driven in no small part by sites like del.icio.us and digg, that promote the freshness and relevance of news as part of their social features. As the previous article states, “6 hours is the amount of time it takes for half of the total readership [...]


11/28/06--01:40: Nation of Warcraft (chan 1640676)

The Internet is a global thing. MMO should be massive things too. Not so, World of Warcraft. Playing friends from the US when you’re in the UK just got harder. It’s restrictions like these that give me valid reasons to avoid WoW (the other being time and commitment). I have finally bought a copy but [...]


01/26/07--04:08: Distributed Casual Game Power (chan 1640676)

I played with the Google Image Labeler when it was released and thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s a multiplayer casual game that is ‘easy to learn, hard to master’, naturally, but part of that difficulty can be attributed to the maxim, the problem with multiplayer games is the other player. However, having just read this O’Reilly article [...]


02/01/07--00:18: The 3D Metaverse (chan 1640676)

From this comment on Le Techcrunch (bold emphasis mine): Virtualization is going to be the new reality. As to the comments that virtual worlds are not going to be as popular as RPG’s, I suggest you check out the number one web site on the net – Myspace. What is Myspace but a virtual world? It’s [...]


02/09/07--07:09: Episodic Casual Games (chan 1640676)

I’ve long been a big fan of episodic games. That is to say, I’ve *wanted* to be able to champion episodic games for a long time, but there are so few successful episodic games around that it’s hard to remain enthused. Needless to say, the recent news that Half Life 2: Episode 2 has been delayed [...]


03/02/07--01:30: Casual Games In The News (chan 1640676)

It’s always nice to see how Casual Games aren’t threatening to fade away. When an industry gets tagged with the ‘cottage’ label, and is spun to look like a real instant-money-winner (1, 2), it can often end with a whimper rather than a bang. Casual Games, though, don’t seem to be fading in such a manner, [...]


03/12/07--12:00: Miniclip vs . Youtube (chan 1640676)

Now that the dust has settled on the recent Youtube purchase by Google, the online video clip ’space’ is ‘hot’. Sony previously bought Grouper for $65 million and companies like eBaumsWorld must be wondering when they’ll cash in. eBaumsWorld is too controversial, being stuffed full of stolen content. Revver is Youtube with ad revenue sharing [...]


04/01/07--19:26: Casually Reminded (chan 1640676)

Now that every seems to have gone completely (casual) games and social software crazy, given that Sony announced the PS3 Home virtual apartment and the main realisation of the recent GDC is that the Web, for games, is going to huge (/the web waves back, hi games industry!). On top of that, we’ve got portabable [...]


05/31/09--11:59: Let’s play a game of Kes (chan 1640676)

Reading the recent game reviews for Velvet Assasin it’s hard not to feel roundly depressed. The story of Violette Szabo is compelling, but even in the well known territory of a World War Shooter the designers seem to have failed to make anything from such a good story. Given that the vast majority of games [...]