Dan Quick returns again to cover for Paul Nowak, and this week, the Gaming Podcast is offering free copies of The Darkness II Limited Edition, which comes with the main game and some free DLC. The guys are giving away an Xbox 360 version and a PlayStation 3 version. To win, just listen to the […]
Entries Tagged as 'Casual Games'
Episode 255: The Darkness II Contest
March 15th, 2012 · 6 Comments
Tags: Casual Games · Contest · Diablo 3 · Episode · FPS · Industry News · Microsoft · Podcast · RPG · Show Notes
Episode 230: Zombie Nazi Monkeys
September 7th, 2011 · 6 Comments
This week, Jonah Falcon rants about the bosses in Deus Ex: Human Revolution while Jordan Lund expresses a desire for cold, rainy weather. This week’s Gaming Flashback is The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, with the following news items: Lord British wants to make another Ultima, EA not so much Crytek rebukes “unlawful layoff” claims Gabe […]
Tags: Casual Games · Industry News · playstation 3 · Podcast · PSP · RPG · Show Notes · Steam · Xbox 360
Episode 222: Gorilla Love
July 13th, 2011 · 5 Comments
This week is a big episode, as it is chock full of surprising news this week, as well as some long, long reader mail. If that weren’t enough, we take a look back at the IntelliVision game Maze-a-Tron, deal with too much love for Paul, and the mystery that is the popularity of gorillas. This […]
Tags: Casual Games · electronic arts · Industry News · Kinect · Microsoft · Podcast · popcap · PSP · Retro · Show Notes · Xbox 360
Gaming Podcast 214: A Fully PAXed Episode
March 16th, 2011 · 9 Comments
We review our experiences of PAX East in this podcast and the second half is full of gaming news and community comments. Derrick reflects at his fun experience of Orcs Must Die while Jonah spent some time with LA Noire and Star Wars: The Old Republic. The news highlights include: PSP Go Price Goes Back […]
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Gaming Podcast 140: Cookie Cutter
September 22nd, 2009 · 5 Comments
This week we’re pulling a 2-person shift while Don is away being sick and tired. We substituted his astute comments with extra epic insight… okay, we just did as best as we could without him. We flash back to Venture, we do an audio review of Zuma’s Revenge and we kicked it free style with […]
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EA Listens To The Public: No SecuROM In The Sims 3!
March 29th, 2009 · 3 Comments
It seems Spore was the staging point for the SecuROM revolt and the massive amazon 1-star reviews and backlash have not gone on deaf ears. Electronic Arts has opted to leave SecuROM out of The Sims 3, an upcoming release for just that reason. “We have heard your requests over the past months and here […]
Tags: Casual Games · DRM · Editorial
Small Games Make Big Waves
February 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
The game industry is doing “okay” in this bad economic time compared to other industries. Primarily, Nintendo is rocking the house with their games, hand-held’s and consoles while mobile developers are showing some great successes in the industry. Many success stories in our industry are based on small titles, downloadable games of the more “casual” […]
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MumboJumbo Making Luxor 3 For Wii
December 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Casual gamers will be glad to know one of the big publishers of casual games will be publishing Luxor 3 for the Wii console, perhaps this will be one of many to come. While large console based developers like Ubisoft, Electronic Arts and others are trying to make casual games for the Wii but MumboJumbo’s […]
Tags: Casual Games · Wii
Our New Casual Games Store
December 5th, 2008 · No Comments
Every now and again we mention casual games on our Gaming Podcast and we’ve taken the opportunity to open a little store to sell some casual game titles. Our store is located at BuyCasualGames.com and carries titles publishes and distributed by Big Fish Games. Lot’s of folks have found the games Big Fish publishers are […]
Tags: Casual Games · Industry News
Rhythm Gaming Saturation Point?
November 18th, 2008 · No Comments
Rhythm Gaming is all the rage, or is it? Turns out Guitar Hero: World Tour didn’t meet or exceed the figures they hit with Guitar Hero III. Where GH3 brought in $115 million in the first week, GHWT brought in $67 million in the same time frame. Why? There are plenty of factors that could […]
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