i don’t often peer into my crystal ball to predict trends, for fear of looking like a complete nerd. Remember that time i said Jesus was coming at 4PM on a Tuesday, and we all hung out at that bus stop for, like, five hours, until Pete got the munchies and did a Taco Bell [...] Keep Reading

Buckle up – it’s GRR time! Few things get my back up more in this industry than the state of the free-to-play Flash games market. Here’s a very brief run-down in case you haven’t been following it: Adobe Flash is an inexpensive tool that lowers the barrier to entry for new game developers The install [...] Keep Reading

I’m back from Casual Connect in Seattle. It’s a smallish gaming conference for folks in the casual games space , which encompasses basically any game that isn’t a disc- or cartridge-based console (Xbox 360/Wii/PS3/DS/PSP) title. There’s a little bit of cross-over on the two leading handheld consoles, but most of the folks at the conference [...] Keep Reading

We were tickled pink to announce our first online multiplayer game Interrupting Cow Trivia one month ago. We have improved the game based on your feedback, and today we’re very excited to introduce the game’s Challenge a Friend feature. Bring your friends. Three weeks in the making by crack ace Untold Programmer Jeff (hint: his [...] Keep Reading

The biggest game industry news to hit Toronto last week (and probably ever) is that France’s UbiSoft, best-known for its smash hit Horsez 2 from the Nintendo DS Petz series, is establishing a new game studio here in the Big Smoke. The province Premier used a combination of grants, tax breaks, 263 million dollars, and [...] Keep Reading