As anyone who’s ever been bombarded by others’ status updates knows, no company better represents the current shift in the gaming landscape than Zynga. The casual game revolution caught fire on social networks like Facebook and brought in millions of players who are otherwise uninterested in hardcore console and PC games. Now, rumors abound that [...]
Zynga has managed to capture the attention of 72 million active users, who obsessively play their simple, mindless games every day. Whether you want to be a farmer, mafia don or city planner, these games tap into a fantasy life that most users could never dream of leading. For five minutes a day, Zynga users [...]
Confession time: I’m a Zynga addict.
Those hopes you had for playing a Battlestar Galactica MMO on the bus ride to work? Shattered.
Look out, Angry Birds, there’s a new addictive app in town. But it wasn’t made by another app developing company–Bubble Ball was designed by fourteen-year-old Robert Nay, with only a little help from mom.
Nintendo and Playstation might be household names when it comes to gaming, but the graphics and portability of Apple’s iOS devices are making it a contender in the gaming market. It’s not cheap for developers, who have to pay a $99 licensing fee and a steep 25 percent in royalties after the first $5,000 in sales, but [...]
A while back, the consumer electronics giant mysteriously introduced the Jungle, a new handheld gaming system designed specifically for online play. Now, Bloomberg‘s reporting that they’re starting to sent test units out to select customers in the U.S. The report has few details as to how the rollout’s happening, but quotes the notification e-mail from Panasonic [...]
Last night, consumer electronics giant Panasonic unveiled the Jungle, a QWERTY-enabled device dedicated to MMO playing on the go. Specifics on the data connection, screen resolution and pricing aren’t yet available. On the device’s official site, Panasonic’s being coy about specs and functionality:
