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Archive for the ‘Gaming Industry’ Category

July 29th, 2008

Online Gaming Business 101

So you want to put up your own online gaming business, eh? This article from the InformativePost.com can give you an idea on how to do it. It may not be 100% accurate since there’s no proven formula for making a site boom, but then again, you might as well have to start somewhere, […]

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July 14th, 2008

Iphone Games May Lead To A New Crop of Games for the Mac

Glenda Adams, director of development down at Aspyr Media, the veteran game publisher who’s behind titles like Sims 2 and Guitar Hero 3, thinks that this may be the case since platforms for both the Mac and Iphones are now closely tied to each other. This is according to an article from MacWorld.com.
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June 22nd, 2008

“Casual” Gamers Stupid?

The guy who wrote the article doesn’t really think so, at least not all of them. He said, its the publishers and the game developers who certainly believes that casual gamers are imbecilic.
Well he’s got a good point. The author, Mr. Chapman, gave a lot of examples. For starters, he mentioned why […]

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June 4th, 2008

Mobile Game-based Ads Have Higher CTR Rate

Apparently, 10% CTR (or click-through-rate) is a high number when it comes to advertising, according to this article. This was proven by Greystripe, which launched GameJump.com, back in 2006, a site that distributed free, ad-supported mobile games. Since then, consumers downloaded a whopping 65 million copies of their titles.
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May 30th, 2008

2007 - The Year of the Games

Well, at least for UbiSoft, that is.  Thanks to their popular titles like Call of Duty 4, The Orange Box, Mass Effect and their Games for Everyone casual games brand release.  A big chunk of this growth they owe to the latter.
Because of this, people who are usually considered as non-gamers are given a chance […]

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May 29th, 2008

New Term: Chick Games!

Now that the industry seems to see a goldmine out of a whole new demographic of gamers, news keeps on popping all over about how publishers and developers are targeting women for their upcoming titles. I just mentioned about it previously but it seems like there’s more where they came from.
Chick Games, just like […]

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May 29th, 2008

Another Advise for the Industry

Developer, The Game Factory, just released DS Zenses, the first in the line of casual games they are going to release this year.  And guess who’s their target?  The fairer sex.   Particularly the 25-34 year old ones who has the spending power.
This article from MCV UK stated that 74% of paying casual gamers are, gasp, […]

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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 11th, 2008

An Insight on the Industry

It was only lately, when I started researching about the industry that I was about to write about, that I found out about Casual Games Association. I didn’t know an organization like this even existed! (sorry, you guys)
The last time I was updated about the gaming industry was when I was about to graduate […]

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