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PETA against the developers of mobile games

PETA organization initiated an application for the iPhone, showing scenes of animal abuse and calling to abandon this attitude toward them.
In response to the videogame Dog Wars, developed for Android, and allows you to train a virtual pit bull terriers to participate in dog fights, the organization PETA (People for the Ethnical Treatment of Animals [...]

TIME named Top 10 video games

In the last days of the year, always made to summarize and prepare a variety of ratings. That’s most authoritative magazine TIME, not quite close to the gaming industry, also could not pass by this integral part of human life. Thus, TOP-10 best video games:
The best game design was recognized psychological thriller Alan Wake, which [...]

Court upheld the Glider bot banned

Appeals court in San Francisco, California, upheld the lower court’s verdict, which was introduced in 2009, in the case of software product Glider, the company MDY Industries. This program allows the player automatically, even while away from your computer to quickly “pump” your character and reach higher levels in one of the most popular online [...]

Pentagon trains its officials with casual games

Long since it is no secret that the U.S. Army Command, the military uses a variety of gaming simulators for training its soldiers and officers. But this time, Pentagon officials decided to use the seemingly childish mini-games built on two-dimensional graphics, and their “cartoon family” which are designed for babies and children in primary school, [...]

Casual games help to strengthen family ties

Respondents who participated in the survey on casual games, believe that playing with children or grandchildren in casual games, they are able to improve relations in the family.
The company BigFishGames, producing mini casual games, announced the results of Research, attended by 7500 people playing these games. The survey found that 70% of respondents believe that [...]

The future – for casual games?

PlayFirst CEO John Welch thinks that gamers, fans, enthusiasts devote all my free time a particular game and its study (hardcore gamers), will soon be in the minority, because the mass covers the tendency of “choose-and-play”
In his keynote address at the meeting, Casual Games Summit 2010, which was part of the Game Developer Conference (Game [...]

MMORPG in the West and East

Market Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG) or browser-based online games seems crowded Chinese and Korean games. There are over 200 free games, but only a quarter of established Western developers. This is most likely based on the income inequality between East and West. In Asia, developed a lot of free or for very [...]

The popularity of casual games is increasing

Casual games – the most significant part of the game industry around the world. And while there is a lack of interest to many companies and products, given the scope of entertainment has not undergone any changes.
Already in the first half of 2010, noting a substantial financial gains, and many are already well-known companies have [...]

Games-shooters develop mathematical abilities

In New York City hosted the first conference devoted to exploring the possibility of using video games for educational purposes. In particular, addressing the impact of so-called violent computer games on people.
According to research associate professor of brain and kognivistiki University of Rochester Daphne Bevelir, due to the fact that these video games differ a [...]

Who are the main player in the casual games?

It’s no secret that the last few years in the mini games or casual games, more and more women began to play. And now the producers of such games, which were basically always pleasing the male population of the planet, faced the question “So what audience with their products?”.
And now conducting a study, the creators [...]

Classic arcade mini games

Arcade mini games take their place among all komppyuternyh games exactly the same as cars Mini-Cooper and Volkswagen Beetle in the automotive industry. Despite its simplicity and size and they both have already become classics in their niches.
Some of the mini-games, particularly the earlier period, it is very simple in their function and have scanty [...]

Video Games for children – parents ” for! ”

According to research, one of the largest manufacturers of video games THQ, ? surveyed parents of Australia, who have children from 5 to 12 years, believe that video games have a positive effect on child development. Of these, 94% believe that these video and computer games improve motor and motor functions of children, 91% believed [...]

The rapid growth of casual games market

According to the survey gamers in the UK in 2009 spent on casual games 280 million pounds. On average, every British player has spent 117 pounds. Exactly the same study was carried out in other European countries. For example in France, the players spent on online mini game of 220 million euros, while Germany’s players [...]

Mini games for girls

With graduate students, led by Lotte Vermeulenom of Gent University (Belgium) conducted a study which surveyed 983 gamers, half of whom were girls and women ages 12 to 35 years. The essence of the study was to learn how different tastes, behavior and preferences among the players of both sexes.
The findings of this experiment are [...]