Why Marketers Should Pay Attention to Booming Gaming Trend – Advertising Age – DigitalNext
In 2002 a startling announcement was made: sales of video games had finally surpassed the movie box office in the U.S. Over the past two years, games have catapulted to an even more impressive level. Farmville, a game that allows players to tend to a virtual farm with their friends in Facebook, is currently played [...]
Star Wars Video Games: A Visual History – PCWorld
Star Wars Video Games: A Visual History – PCWorld.
The Imagination Age: Global Collaborative Storytelling Game
The Imagination Age: Global Collaborative Storytelling Game.
YouTube – Aves Engine – HTML/JavaScript – A Web Game Engine – Sneak Preview www.dextrose.com
YouTube – Aves Engine – HTML/JavaScript – A Web Game Engine – Sneak Preview www.dextrose.com.
The player: Are social games the future? | Technology | The Guardian
The average social gamer is a 43-year-old woman. And social games – played on networks such as Facebook – are expected to generate about $1bn this year. Traditional console gamers might eventually be in the minority. Facebook might not sound like a particularly significant gaming market, but it has more than 400 million active users. [...]
Casual, free games still rule mobile
ComScore reports that 47.1% of smartphone owners play at least once a month, with 13.3% gaming every day and another 16.4% playing at least every week. By comparison only 15.7% of feature phone owners play at all each month. Of smartphone owners, 27.3% have at least one title installed on their phones, and 9.4% have [...]
Smartphone mobile gaming soaring as regular phones drop out
Mobile gaming is more than ever a tale of two devices: feature phones and smartphones. The U.S. population playing games on regular mobile phones fell by 35% last year to 29.5 million, while the number of smartphone gamers shot up 60% to 21.4 million, according to a new comScore study. The mobile gaming audience overall [...]
MediaPost Publications Free-To-Play Games Free Up Game Market 04/16/2010
I’d like to see if you could motivate an action item for social, public, or civic good through a serious game. Donations for public media support perhaps. Write a letter to your representative. Free-to-play games are a great place for brands interested in getting into the gaming space. Players have proven themselves willing to pay [...]