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Archive for April 2008

April 30th, 2008

Study Confirms Casual Games Relieve Stress

Believe it or not, East Carolina University revealed the results of a study they did and its health benefits, as sited in AusGamers.com. They used 3 family-friendly, casual titles from PopCap games which can soon be used to address serious mental and physical disorders. Study data can be found here.
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April 27th, 2008

Review: Are you Up for A Feud?

Family Feud III - Dream Home (Publisher: iWin)
The Third installment of the Family Feud franchise will make every trivia maniac happy. Not only did it stay true to the original TV gameshow, the title boasts of almost 3,000 questions to make sure that these won’t repeat as often.
This time, though, the game has a […]

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April 26th, 2008

Presenting… The Gamerlite Review Rating System

You know what I’m really here for? Well, I’m tasked to test drive all those wonderful (or nasty) games, write about it for everybody to see and get paid for it, too. Ain’t that just grand? It must be every gamer’s dream (at least it’s mine, haha).
Don’t worry, its really not […]

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April 26th, 2008

Karting on the Wii, Coming Up

Look what I’ve stumbled upon Yahoo’s video games channel.  Its the preview video for Mario Kart on the Wii! Wee, indeed!
The title was already released in Japan last April 10, the day after that in Europe.  The 24th was Australia’s day and this coming sunday, the 27th for Northern America.  Every copy of the game […]

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April 25th, 2008

I Hate Getting Sick

But yeah, it did let me stay home for 3 days (albeit bedridden for the first 2 days) download a few game demos and play to my heart’s content. Yey! So expect a couple of game reviews in a short while.
I just hope my gastritis won’t stop me from playing more. I […]

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April 23rd, 2008

Guess What America’s Most Popular Activity Is?

Yep, you guessed it right!  Playing casual games.  I don’t blame them, I myself spend most of my unproductive time playing online.
According to the DevelopMag site, a research by Advergame Network claims that a whopping 34% of US households spend their time playing on a weekly basis.  And that’s versus 29% who watches short online […]

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April 15th, 2008

Gaming Industry Heavyweights’ Take on Casual Gaming

I know, I know, I should be doing some reviews game by now. Somehow I feel like I haven’t played that much, yet. And after signing up at Google Alert’s on casual gaming, there’s just so much info out there that I’d love to share to you about the industry.
One is a new Internet […]

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April 12th, 2008

News: Gamezebo Looking for Beta Testers

Casual game developer, Gamezebo, is looking for a beta tester for their hidden object adventure game.  Hmm, sounds like another Mystery Case Files imitation.  Hope not.
Anyway, if you’re interested and can spare a few minutes of your time and is committed to giving valuable feedbacks to developers, then head-off to the site and sign up.
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April 12th, 2008

Care to Doof?

So many names to call your site, but this one must be the most mind-boggling of them all. Doof.com is a casual gaming portal with social networking functions in tow. According to the interview that news site Guardian.co.uk did with a Doof executive, the site has a roster of 50 games, all of […]

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April 12th, 2008

Mobile Games down the drain?

Mobile games veteran, Chris Wright, has a really sad prediction about the mobile gaming industry for his first article in his column, The Wright Stuff down at Pocketgamer.co.uk. He said that it isn’t making as much as it should since the games that are being developed are not as appealing enough. Only 5% […]

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