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GameStop Goes Casual
2:40AM Mike Fahey | Video game retailer GameStop launched its Casual Digital Store yesterday, celebrating with a 50% sale on select casual PC titles. More »
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“Casual” Is No Way To Label Games, Argues Developer
7:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Get rid of the term “casual”! Do it! Dave Thomson of Scottish games developer Denki wants the word gone, banished, erased, deleted. More »
Hands On
4:00AM AJ Glasser | Peggle is conquering gaming one platform at a time. First it was PC, next Nintendo DS, then Xbox Live Arcade before doubling back to PC via World of Warcraft. More »
Peggle IPhone Review: Touching Balls Never Felt So Good
4:00AM AJ Glasser | Peggle is conquering gaming one platform at a time. First it was PC, next Nintendo DS, then Xbox Live Arcade before doubling back to PC via World of Warcraft. More »
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Pogo Gives Away Billions
11:00PM Brian Crecente | Electronic Arts is giving away 200 billion tokens to their Pogo players this month. That works out to about 12,600 tokens to each player to use toward virtual clothes and goodies for their avatars. More »
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Sci Fi Channel Partners with Acclaim For Casual Games
7:00AM Brian Crecente | Sci Fi has partnered with Acclaim Games and ZooKazoo to develop a series of online science fiction and fantasy games for their website. More »
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Welcome Your New PopCap Overlords In 2009
9:40AM Michael McWhertor | If you’re not already on board with PopCap Games’ brand of casual thrills, you’ve never played Peggle. But you will bow before PopCap, as the publisher is expanding its casual efforts in a big way. More »
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Amazon Casually Launches Digital Game Downloads
12:00AM Mike Fahey | Amazon.com has officially launched the beta version of their Game Downloads section this morning, offering more than 600 casual titles for digital download, each under US$10. More »
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Free Casual Games Thriving In Failing Economy
1:40AM Mike Fahey | With the economy in a downward spiral, more and more people turn to cheap entertainment to keep them occupied, resulting in the free casual gaming sector thriving like never before. More »
Casual Games Will Make Consoles Extinct – Clickz
10:40AM Stuart Houghton | “Digital Marketing” experts Clickz have a theory – casual games are becoming the dominant form of gameplay and are killing the console market deader than a particularly dead doornail. More »
