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Mom Gamers Talk about Casual Games

Featuredby arcticpenguin 3 Comments

Casual Connect hosted a focus group panel with five “mom gamers”– moms who love playing casual games– with the audience asking questions. The most interesting thing was the diversity in […]

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The Great Gatsby has excellent music and very nice voice actors.

The secret musical sauce

July 28, 2010by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

I’m ashamed to admit it, but I’ve played almost all of the downloadable games on Big Fish. Since Big Fish releases a new game every day, it’s not such a […]

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Henk Rogers

Discovering Tetris and Going to Mars: Interview with Henk Rogers

October 7, 2009by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Tetris celebrated its 25th anniversary this year, yet the game’s popularity (and revenue stream) is still strong. Henk B. Rogers, CEO and president of Blue Planet Software, discovered Tetris at […]

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Wall-nuts change expressions before they die

Plants vs. Zombies– a Tale of Two Sisters

July 12, 2009by arcticpenguin 6 Comments

My sister and I were separated when I was 12 and she was 8. At first, it wasn’t an actual physical separation, but one due to the fact that our […]

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