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Survey: Blame the 'Great Recession' for the free-to-play gaming boom

by Joe Osborne Apr 10th, 2012 6:10 PM

It might be more than mere coincidence that the free-to-play (F2P) gaming scene blew up globally just as the economy tanked back in 2008. ...

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Tags: arcadeweb, casual, casual games, economic crisis, economy, f2p, f2p games, f2p games survey, free-to-play, free-to-play games, free-to-play games survey, Great Recession, survey

Activision actively working on Facebook games, says CEO Bobby Kotick

by Brandy Shaul Jul 21st, 2011 10:06 PM

At the end of June, Activision Blizzard Publishing head Eric Hirshberg gave off the impression that Activision would be focusing on Call of Duty: ...

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Tags: Activision, Activision-Blizzard, Bobby Kotick, casual, casual games, facebook games, social, social games

RockYou's Julie Shumaker: 'We've got to blow sh*t up'

by Joe Osborne Apr 8th, 2011 1:15 PM

According to RockYou SVP and GM Julie Shumaker, social games need more explosions to reel in the hardcore crowd. While she was probably kidding, ...

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Tags: casual, casual gamer, casual games, facebook games, hardcore, hardcore gamer, hardcore-casual, inside social games, Julie Shumaker, loot drop, MI6, mmo, mobile, mobile games, rockyou, social games

Five reasons why social games are as hardcore as they come

by Joe Osborne Feb 14th, 2011 4:20 PM

For probably longer than I've been writing about them, social games have been looked at by traditional gamers as "casual" or barely even games. ...

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Gamestop invests further in social games with Kongregate purchase

by Kyle Orland Jul 28th, 2010 9:00 AM

It looks like game retailer Gamestop's interest in social gaming no longer begins and ends with its promotion of subsidiary Jolt Online. That's ...

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Tags: acquisition, buyout, casual, diversify, fbfeed, gamestop, hub, kongregate, merger, purchase, social