Posts Tagged ‘Casual Gaming’

The alarm’s shrill screech is piercing your ears while the clock flashes 5AM, but instead of going for that 2 mile jog you were determined to start incorporating into your morning routine, you hit the snooze for another hour. Getting out of bed to exercise before you start your day is no easy feat, but [...]

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

Do you remember when gaming just used to be called gaming, instead of being fragmented into a number of terms: casual gaming, social gaming, flash gaming? What do all these terms mean, and why care? Well if you didn’t already know, this has been an important week in game development. The FGS 2010 Flash Gaming [...]

How many Twitter messages have you received in the past few weeks, inviting you to play one of those mafia games? You may be getting more messages from friends inviting you to join their squad on World of Blood’s Twitter version of its existing games already available on Facebook and MySpace.

The new Twitter-based version is called 140Blood, and this particular adaptation leverages the microblogging platform to make the game social for players. Find friends, invite members to your squad, and share your adventure online via Twitter updates.
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