The smash hit casual game Plants Vs Zombies, which showed up earlier in the year, has been turned into a free Flash game by developers PopCap. It's available to play now on the company's website.

If you've not given it a go, you have to place...

Popcap's excellent "Plants vs Zombies" tower-defence game, which scored a whopping 9/10 when Pocket-lint reviewed it, appears to be shambling slowly towards other platforms, moaning "braaaaains".

The company's senior director of public relations,...

The team behind Tetris in the States, that includes Alexey Pajitnov, the original designer and creator of Russian gaming sensation, has given the game a new lease of online life.

A revamped site, the "Tetris Friends" portal, offers a new...

Games maker PopCap has revealed results of a "pilot study" that set out to assess if casual gaming could aid weight loss.

The company has concluded that "casual gaming could be an effective tool in the fight against obesity by helping dieters...

A new casual game is keeping worried workers occupied in the current economic climate.

"Layoff" from Tiltfactor Labs and the Rochester Institute of Technology's Game Design and Development program is said to "examine the federal bailout of...

Amazon.com has announced it is taking the step into the digitally distributed games market with its latest project, aptly named "Amazon Game Downloads".

The service kicks off its beta in the States today, and has over 600 casual titles up...

No quicker is Christmas over than the Easter slog begins, and advertising agency supreme Saatchi & Saatchi has come up with a game for UK bus shelters that will promote Cadbury's Creme Eggs.

The interactive touchscreen game will see travellers...

EA has announced it is to launch the sixth addition to the Littlest Pet Shop gaming line-up in March 2009.

Aimed at girls between 6-10 years old, Littlest Pet Shop Spring will be the fourth DS release in the series. The game features a spring...

The first Arabic online MMO game is set to enter its open beta test in early 2009, after its second closed beta finishes on 30 December.

Arabic Rappelz, published by Game Power 7, is an Arabic version of Rappelz, a famous MMORPG that is already...

Internet games may have been around for a while now, but social networking websites are apparently causing more people to turn online games than ever.

Apparently the rise in popularity of social networking sites like Facebook has attracted...

Lily Allen is the latest star to be immortalised in an online casual game to help promote her new album.

"Escape the Fear" has been created by brand entertainment specialist Matmi, and is based on content from Lily's new album and first single...

You've seen the YouTube video, now play the game. The shoe-throwing attack of Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi on President Bush at the weekend has been made into an online Flash game by developer T-Enterprise.

The YouTube footage of the...

After the release of Microsoft's "You're in the Movies" in the US last week, Microsoft is gearing up for the release of the game in the UK on 28 November.

Developed by Codemasters and Zoë Mode, the game uses the Xbox Live Vision Camera to...

Just a few weeks after shutting down its Casual Label, EA has reportedly closed down its Blueprint division too, an area of the business supposedly also working on casual-orientated games.

Blueprint has never been officially announced by...

Japan's most famous export Hello Kitty is set to make her debut on the Nintendo DS outside of Japan on November 28th.

In Hello Kitty Big City Dreams, you play as Hello Kitty herself, as you explore what Empire Interactive describe as a "whole...