on the casual gamer.. According to Develop Online, EA Sports' Peter Moore spoke during a keynote address at the Edinburgh Interactive conference held earlier today, blaming the casual gamer for the loss of many EA Sports staff members. More specifically,...

Amazon.com Offers Digital Game Downloads. amazon digital casual game downloads. A brand new casual games download service has officially gone beta at Amazon.com, and to celebrate the occasion Amazon is giving away three PC games for free.. A brand new casual...

Real Networks To Spin Off Game Business. real game networks. Real Networks today said that it plans to spin off its casual games business into an independent company and distribute shares of the newly created games company to its shareholders..   Real Networks...

also reported that as of the NXE rollout, the Xbox LIVE service now has 14 million active users, its highest number ever. While increased sales of what some would consider "casual" games is important in a time where casual game use is at an all time high, Xbox...

Sony. Sony also cited that the reduction of power consumption (by 34 percent) and fan noise as other strong incentives. Most interesting, however, was Sony's feeling that the PS3 Slim has a more "casual appearance," making it more attractive to casual gamers....

and other content required for on-line versions of 3DMark and PCMark. But at least for now, the software is geared towards casual user who does not want to download and install the fully fledged application, but is happy with an estimate of the capability of...

Gears of War fan returning to the battlefield, but aimed towards the casual gamer not familiar with the Gears of War mythology. "We want casual gamers to play the game and be sucked into the universe and finish the game," Bleszinski told Reuters. "We want them...

yet to be determined, EA will also be consolidating studios during the process. Two studios that will combined are EA Sims (The Sims, Sim City) and EA Casual, which already oversees pogo.com, EA Mobile and EA Hasbro. This impending round of layoffs follows...