PopCap Games, purveyors of casual clickitude, have shaken their lawyer stick at an iPhone developer: Joystiq – Peggle Turfwar Causes Peggie to Change its Name The small-time dev launched a knock-off of PopCap’s Peggle on the App Store and called it “Peggie“. The rule is that if a trade name is close enough to cause [...] Keep Reading

Based on the results of our recent poll, here are the six ersatz British place names we’ll use for our upcoming original casual game (codename: “Fingerprints”): Towningham East Westinghamshireham Nobswallow Flooming-on-Smimsbee Tinklesmith Vicar’s Bottom Thanks so much to everyone who helped us out by responding! To track progress on this project, follow the Kahoots tag. [...] Keep Reading

We’re working on an original game that takes place in a ridiculously fake Britain of our own nefarious design. We’ve brainstormed a few names for the fake British towns and boroughs for our game map. We’d love your opinion on which of these place names you most enjoy! Rule (fake) Britannia! Keep Reading

The ‘Ceeb is talking about a study that suggests gore does not make video games more enjoyable: http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/01/16/videogames.html In the case of THIS GUY (points at self with thumbs), excessive gore actually deterred a purchase of Fallout 3, the ultra-bloody sequel to a pair of games i rather enjoyed back in the day, which were [...] Keep Reading

Ian Marsh is an indie iPhone developer who sent me a redemption code to his latest game, Textropolis. He probably found me after my somewhat embarrassing nerdgasm over Wurdle, another iPhone word puzzle game that i discovered last week. i’m growing to appreciate the economy of design in many of these iPhone games: they’re lean, [...] Keep Reading