This is the catch-all category for stuff about games and game design. It easily makes up the vast majority of the site’s content. If you are looking for something specific, I highly recommend looking into the tags used on the site instead. They can narrow down the hunt immensely.
MCV has stats on how print mags are doing in the UK, and it tells an interesting story. Basically, all the Playstation magazines are in decline, and the Nintendo and XBox mags are on the rise.
But declining along with the PS mags, alas, are the PC mags, despite the fact that PC gaming is going great guns (see the last article I posted).
That’s what a new study by Parks Associates reports, according to several sources yesterday. The unit of measure seems to be frequency of use, and the stat is that 34% of US Internet consumers play an online game at least once a week. (Compare to social networking services at 19%). What’s more, the growth rate in casual games is also much faster than SNSes — 79% YoY. But video is the fastest growing segment.
I don’t really have any comment. Just adding another tally to the column.
The Casual Games Association has posted podcasts and Powerpoints from the sessions at Casual Connect.
This Q&A with Kongregate’s Jim Greer is really worth reading, if only for the stark contrast it presents to how traditional games publishing works. They just landed a bunch more funding in order to essentially seed indie developers with projects. The seed money is treated as an advance against royalties, but the IP remains creator-owned.
