Diner Dash once lacked the personable charm it’s known for today.
In addition to launching a brand new website, casual innovators, gamelab, unveiled some exclusive, historical images from Diner Dash’s development cycle. From concept sketches to mock screenshots, you can follow Diner Dash’s production from conception to launch. (It’s interesting to note the working […]

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 at 11:25 am and is filed under Industry News, Game Design. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Hoping to leverage her “universal appeal”, Nintendo has signed Nicole Kidman to promote their Brain Training casual games series
In a move that will further thrust casual games into the mainstream, Nintendo has chosen Oscar-award winning actress Nicole Kidman as the official face of their newest Brain Training ad campaign.
Casual games differentiate themselves from the hardcore […]

This entry was posted on Sunday, July 1st, 2007 at 11:35 am and is filed under Industry News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

The fellow fanatics over at BinaryJoy have posted an in-depth interview with Reflexive Entertainment’s James C. Smith. (Also of Game Sales Charts fame.) Reflexive, about to release another sequel to their brick-busting Ricochet series, is trying to leverage the benefits of the Social Web to its advantage:
“The built in Internet enabled features give […]

This entry was posted on Friday, June 29th, 2007 at 8:07 pm and is filed under Industry News, Interviews. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

60-minute trials, $19.99 demos, $7/mo game subscriptions, in-game advertising…and now, pay-as-you-play.
Merscom, in partnership with Double Trump, recently announced they will be offering five of their games under a novel pricing structure: play as long as you want, for only $0.01 per minute.
“…users can download and play any game they want for as long as […]

This entry was posted on Friday, June 29th, 2007 at 6:02 pm and is filed under Business, Industry News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.