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One of the perks of this job - and it really doesn’t happen all that frequently - is that we sometimes get some pretty impressive, original, or interesting press kits. As I said, it doesn’t happen very often, but it did today.
Here’s a box I got from Sony’s local distributor. What’s in it?Opening it up, it’s just a box full of games, with some pictures of some happy people on the side.Folding the box according ... [»]
Flash-based browser games are no longer simple affairs to while away the time while you’re bored at work; they’re now fully-fledged gaming experiences made by some of the most quirky, imaginative developers. Let James Francis clue you in on the best flash-based games available. A Podge is ... [»]
I think we’re all in agreement around here that it would be great if more women were gamers. Or, more precisely, if more women were the type of gamer who actually discussed their hobby.It’s important to make this distinction because game-playing girls are definitely out there. For years now, studies have revealed a near 50/50 gender split when it comes to gaming. So women are definitely playing. However, they’re not talking about ... [»]
With Games for windows Live, Microsoft tried to shoehorn their very successful Xbox Live model in to the vastly more open PC gaming world. Unsurprisingly, it failed to resonate with gamers who’re used to more freedoms. Recently, the company even admitted it had faltered in its implementation of the service. I hope they plan on sticking to their guns with their plans ... [»]
I’ve completely overestimated casual gamers. The most popular casual game on the planet (at the moment), Facebook’s Farmville is apparently so confusing and difficult to play that it requires one of those yellow tomes for the braindead and clueless, The Dummies Guide. Of course, I’m being dismissive because I can, never actually having played the game. I’m sure there are some ... [»]
There are many gamers out there, admittedly mostly male, who dream of sharing their passion with their significant other.They dream of intense capture-the-flag sessions, where each partner has the other one’s back. They envision themselves as an unstoppable Arena team – a Paladin and a ... [»]
Browsing through the comments under my first girl gaming and gaming lifestyle column, one statement was repeatedly confirmed by readers. And that is how women who play video games are, on the whole, more likely to fall into the casual gaming category, as opposed to the hardcore and ultra-competitive.We previously established that there are plenty of women – of all ages – playing everything from FarmVille to Blur; from Mario Kart to StarCraft II. ... [»]
Playdom is not, as I imagined, some sort of novelty prophylactic. It is in fact a rather successful developer of casual games for online social platforms like Facebook. They currently have 42 million active users logging in to games like Mobsters, Social City, Sorority Life, Market Street and Bola every day.Disney – who fairly recently purchased Marvel – obviously believes this to be worth something, as they’ve just snatched up the developer for a not so casual $563.2 million.Disney ... [»]
You know those seedy “800†telephone services, where lonely men could phone up and chat with a “hot†girl, and ask them original things like “So..what’re you wearing?†for a nominal fee? Well, that’s made a jump to the modern age, and internet upstart Gamecrush is now offering sad, lonely bastards the opportunity to get their video game on with ... [»]
Wildly popular Facebook game Farmville is indeed wildly popular. Picture one middle aged woman. Now multiply her by thirty. Now imagine that group of thirty middle aged women, and arbitrarily multiply that by one million. That’s how many people play FarmVille every single day – and it’s just a fraction of the number of registered FarmVille Users. According to data from AllFacebook and Appdata, ... [»]
How many times did you start a game of Monopoly and then realize hours later that you had other things to do? Like say eat or drink…I think you would be hard pressed to find anyone who could honestly state that they had actually ... [»]
Alright… um, welcome to the first LazyGamer Casual Gaming column. I’m Matthew Vice, formerly the editor of Play Tech Magazine and gaming editor for Otaku Magazine. I work for LazyGamer now, and rather than providing you with more news, seeing as how we have a number of ... [»]
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