Arcade Game Central

After an intense 12-hour competition, Kavitha Yalavarthi of Odessa, TX emerged the champion of FUN Technologies’ first-ever WorldWide Web Games (W3Games) and winner of the million-dollar grand prize!

Arcade Game Central is now offering RSS data feeds for downloadable games. This allows you to easily stay informed about the latest games by subscribing to an RSS feed, using an RSS reader.

And as with any game of any depth that becomes popular, online guides and walkthru’s have appeared to help players make the most of Virtual Villagers, the award-winning casual game from Last Day of Work.

Luxor has proven to be one of the most popular games of recent memory, exceeded 40 million downloads since its debut in 2005. Now it’s available online, an players who think no one can top their score in Luxor will now have an opportunity to prove it by competing at WorldWinner for cash and prizes.

Avast! is a new turn-based, piracy-themed game from casual game developer Primate Games. Full of rich art and inspiring music, the story mode alone offers 40+ hours of turn based pirate fun for all ages.

Last Day of Work, creators of the popular Fish Tycoon game, has released Virtual Villagers, a game that simulates a small village and allows the player to manage and guide the villagers as they live, work, mate and grow.
In Virtual Villagers, you outcare for and nurture a tribe of little …

Bliss Island, the frantic, fun and fiendishly compulsive action puzzler, is a truly original piece of compulsive casual gaming from PomPom Software, creators of Mutant Storm, and packed with over 90 levels of gotta-have-another-go gameplay.

Quick impressions of some of newly released games:

Phlinx To GoTravel to a far-off land where myths and treasures are waiting to be revealed! Match colored stones in this bust-a-move variation set in the ancient land of Egypt.

Bubble MayhemPop the bubbles before they escape to the surface. A unique game …

I haven’t read the book (The Da Vinci Code), nor have I seen the movie, and frankly I wasn’t thrilled about seeing a casual game based on the subject, either. Movie tie-in games are often nothing more than an attempt to cash in on a hot property. So I …

Gamasutra offers a behind-the-scenes look at three recent casual game bestsellers (Casuality: Luxor, Mah Jong Quest, Fish Tycoon Devs Talk Postmortems).
The lead developers for those three games were Darren Walker, Lead Programmer of Mumbo Jumbo (Luxor), Jim Stern, VP of Production at iWin (Mah Jong Quest), and Carla Humphrey, Executive …