Tag: web games
Doof.com aims to cross casual games with social networking
Get set for social gaming! What’s that? Gaming is social already? Oh… Okay, so Doof.com’s big claim that it’s a “pioneer of social gaming” is more marketing message than reality. Games have always been social, whether played huddled round a C64 or SNES, or played online on Xbox Live. However, that doesn’t mean Doof isn’t an innovative site.
Bowbie spotlights the best web games (i.e. say goodbye to your job)
Really, you may as well tell your boss to chuck you out now, with the minimum of fuss. Why? Well, online Flash games are a notoriously addictive way to fritter away your working hours, yet the thing that stops most of us from being sacked is that there’s too many of them to choose from. It’s hard to find the good ones, so we end up getting some work done after all.
MySpace announces MySpace Games casual gaming service
MySpace has revealed its next big push: into casual online games. The social network is launching MySpace Games early next year, in partnership with gaming firm Oberon Media.
It’ll let you play hundreds of web games, including multiplayer titles, while also sharing them via your MySpace profile. The games will all be free of charge, and will tie into MySpace, for example letting you play against your friends. In-game chat will also feature heavily. MySpace and Oberon are promising “further community initiatives” in early 2008 too.
Casual Game Of The Week: Cannon Bods
It's Friday afternoon! There's no need to do any work, it'll keep till Monday. What you need is to wind down to the weekend by firing some pirates out of cannons. If you don't have any pirates (or cannons) to…
Super Collapse 3 is the best casual game in the world
That's not me saying that, either. It's the prestigious Zeebys Awards, which took place yesterday in Amsterdam to garland the best web games of 2006. RealArcade's Super Collapse 3 took the prize for Casual Game Of The Year. The game…
