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more about #casualgames Sherlock Homo: Plants Vs. Zombies is a great game, no matter how hardcore or casual you are. But, that could be said with every Popcap game. more » neozealot: plants vs zombies for 20$?! are you shitting me?! more » BruzeWayne: YES! I can FINALLY get caught up on the Agatha Christie series. Sooooo many curses to break, and legends to dispell!!! more » JP05: I avoid GameStop as much as possible, the last thing I want to do is go Digital with them. I'll stick with Steam. more » gold163 (° д° ): I think it's funny how "casual game developers" don't want their games to be known as "casual games" because they think that the title is demeaning. A... more » Michael Dukakis: I saw the words "John Deere" and a little bit of me died inside. more » Gloibin: Agreed 100%. The more you clearly define "casual" and "hardcore", you split the user base into stereotypical and (in my opinion) inaccurate representa... more » apoloimagod: It seems to me this guy is just a little too sensitive. First of all, not all games are "of equal worth". Some games are just bad, whether they are ca... more » Vysion: For those who do label games casual or hardcore, which would you label the following games: -Guitar Hero -World of Warcraft -The Sims -Plants vs. Zombies more » Diagnull: I don't mind the "casual" game tag. but I think it's funny that what are called casual games now, used to be just...games. Looking back at where we ca... more » RawSteelUT: Casual? Shovelware? Aren't those synonyms at this point? more » excel_excel: Well good, I agree the term needs to go. Case in point, there own game Denki Blocks, which could be considered 'causal' and 'kiddy' by those who are c... more » gametr4x: "Make the game you love and people who enjoy the things you enjoy will be the audience". That's very much the old way of approaching the games indust... more » PirateSquirrel: I think "casual" is a fitting title for the games you can just pick up and play for a couple of minutes. However once you start deviding in casual and... more » Monkey Majiks: Casual *actually* describes what the game is, casual. Games not labelled casual usually require alot of time on the users part to make progress, con... more » WhatTheFrag: There are loads of 'games' of every kind those that people on a console, on a computer, in the real world with actual sports equipment and so on. Casu... more » CMay: Casual isn't a useless label from a consumer standpoint, but I can see how it might feel limiting as a developer or publisher. You have some distribu... more » Sutekh_Slain: The sooner people accept the fact that the term "casual games" is a gaming stereotype the better off they'll be. more » m4rkg: You do realise that denki actually make some decent stuff right? Before you go off calling them shovelware. more » Black-Dog-Howls: The Casual term speaks for itself frankly. Casual games are designed for a casual playing audience. Would you call Monster Hunter a casual game if s... more » -
#casualgames
GameStop Goes Casual
Video game retailer GameStop launched its Casual Digital Store yesterday, celebrating with a 50% sale on select casual PC titles. More » -
#denki
"Casual" Is No Way To Label Games, Argues Casual Developer
Get rid of the term "casual"! Do it! Dave Thomson of Scottish games developer Denki wants the word gone, banished, erased, deleted. More » -
#digitaldistribution
Amazon Casually Launches Digital Game Downloads
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 $10.
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#hotflashes
Sunday Timewaster: the irRegular Game of Life
The irRegular Game of Life is a weird but fun little game (by irRegular Games) based on mathematician John Horton Conway's 'Game of Life' theory. In this iteration, you are given puzzles to solve and must set the little cells into motion to meet the goals of each level. It's surprisingly hypnotic at times — after getting past the initial introductory levels, you watch the cells shuffle back and forth, creating a variety of patterns and interacting with each other. There's also a sandbox mode and some other features; the regular puzzle mode was plenty fun for me. More » -
#hotflashes
Sunday Timewaster: HDOS Databank request 01
This is a fun little remake (more or less) of the puzzle mode of Tetris Attack; you have a limited number of moves to swap blocks and clear the whole board. While the early levels are pretty easy, some of the later stages get pretty complicated — all in all, not a bad little browser-based timewaster to kill some time on a Sunday. More » -
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#hotflashes
Sunday Timewaster: Marshmallow
This wonderfully adorable (and kind of weird) game is pretty straight forward — guide the marshmallow around a variety of objects just waiting to take a bite out of your head and send you hurtling towards the ground so you can land with a 'splat.' It's cute. It's not terribly taxing. The soundtrack is ... well, something (soothing? Weird? Vaguely Katamari-esque? All of the above?), but the game is really cute and a nice way to waste a couple of minutes or more .... More » -
#hotflashes
Weekend Timewaster: FkConflict
A simple and scaled-down strategy game (it was an entrant in the 'Java4K competition,' where entries could not exceed 4096 bytes), FkConflict is still a lot of fun and good to while away a chunk of time that you probably should be doing something else with. The mechanics are pretty simple: pick your territories; territories get turns each round in random order; first player to get all territories on the board wins. More »
