casual gaming (7 articles)
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Bing searches for the gamers in us
Directly on the search results page 3 February 2011 15:22 GMT TweetBing has thrown casual games right into its search results - giving office workers up and down the country yet another way of killing the hours before home time.
If you search for any of the 46 games included in the new platform, you'll be...
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Average social gamer is 43-year-old woman
PopCap poll results surprise no-one 17 February 2010 16:13 GMT TweetPopCap, maker of such games as the popular Bejeweled, has revealed a profile of the average social gamer from a recent survey carried out in the UK and the US.
The "social gamers" survey covered consumers who play games on social networking...
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iGAME FAMILY TV dock borrows from iPhone, Wii
"Sociable, family entertainment system" 15 September 2009 15:17 GMT TweetElonex is to launch what it says is the world's first TV games dock, the iGAME FAMILY, that plays non-app iPod content as well as apes the Nintendo Wii.
Designed in the UK, the iGAME is described as a "convergence product that takes the... -
3D Stereogram Tetris revealed
Gaming gets Magic Eye-type graphics 15 September 2009 10:13 GMT Tweet"If you can see 3D stereograms, why not try a game with the same idea?"
Why not indeed? Squinting at your monitor trying to see the durned image will at least while away a few minutes of your boring work day.
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Quake Live now for Mac and Linux
A few bugs fixed, too 20 August 2009 11:53 GMT TweetID has rolled out an update to its browser-based Quake Live game which means that it's now available for Mac and Linux users. Neither group have reputations as gamers, but given the more retro nature of Quake Live, perhaps it'll rope in some former Quake...
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Sky launches free gesture-controlled webcam games
Get physical 21 July 2009 17:43 GMT TweetSky Games has launched an exclusive collection of online games with gesture-recognition controls for PC users with webcams, powered by OmniMotion.
Sky says the free webcam games - which range from sports to puzzles - "put players in the... -
Sony plots "snackable" PSP content
Going after the iPhone gaming market with new strategy 16 July 2009 16:20 GMT TweetSony's new PSP Go, with a download-only content distribution model, is to go head to head with the Apple iPhone through the introduction of "snackable" gaming software, a report from Develop reveals.
A new strategy for Sony, as the PSP Go...