Casual Game Champion Wins Million-Dollar Prize

Posted October 2, 2006 @ 10:14 am - Filed under: News, Online Games
Casual Game Champion Wins Million-Dollar Prize

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 RSS Feeds

Posted September 21, 2006 @ 12:37 pm - Filed under: Site News
Arcade Game RSS Feeds

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.


Virtual Villagers Guides & Discussion

Posted August 30, 2006 @ 7:49 am - Filed under: News
Virtual Villagers Guides & Discussion

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.


Play Luxor Online

Posted August 22, 2006 @ 12:34 pm - Filed under: Online Games
Play Luxor Online

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! Sets Sail

Posted August 14, 2006 @ 9:21 pm - Filed under: New Releases
Avast! Sets Sail

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.


Virtual Villagers

Posted August 7, 2006 @ 7:42 am - Filed under: New Releases
Virtual Villagers

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 Out with Bliss Island

Posted August 2, 2006 @ 10:12 am - Filed under: New Releases
Bliss Out with Bliss Island

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 Hits

Posted July 27, 2006 @ 9:10 am - Filed under: New Releases
Quick Hits

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 …


Da Vinci's Secret is a Masterpiece

Posted July 21, 2006 @ 1:01 pm - Filed under: Reviews
Da Vinci's Secret is a Masterpiece

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 …


The Stories Behind Your Favorite Casual Games

Posted July 13, 2006 @ 8:52 am - Filed under: Developers
The Stories Behind Your Favorite Casual Games

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 …