Women and chocolate – yeah, it’s a cliche, but it’s a cliche that does seem to have some merit – we’re not all crazy about it, but how many women do you know that don’t like it at all? I’m guessing the number’s pretty low. So it Playfirst who announced today their first foray into [...]
Casual Connect, the annual Seattle gathering of the casual games industry, returns to Benaroya Hall July 20 – 22. In addition to the excellent exhibition halls, this year’s event includes lectures from Jeremy Lewis of Big Fish Games, Mari Baker of PlayFirst, John Pleasants of Playdom and more; this year’s presentations include “The Not-so-Casual Journey [...]
Just when I thought I was going to have some free time, Club Funkitron sends me a note to let me know that Last Day of Work has released Virtual Villagers 4: The Tree of Life. I’ve been playing Virtual Villagers since the very first release. The popular time-management game tells the story of the [...]
Seattle based technology firm Spoon specialize in technology that lets games run instantly from the web without installations. Today they announced the immediate availability of the online IGC and IGF Sandboxes. The IGC, or Indie Game Challenge, is an annual competition for aspiring game developers to showcase their skills, pitch their games to top publishers [...]
Dear Zynga: You don’t need me to tell you how successful Farmville is. After all, you already know that it’s the most successful application on Facebook with over 82 million users and over 22 million fans. Farmville users represent more than a fifth of all Facebook users and (at least per The Guardian) one percent [...]
