Casual Games news Summary

Wild Tangent to close development studio
no surprise 20 people only produced 3 games in 2 years
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Flash market is almost double the size of the console business

Comscore stats 359m people played online casual games in the last month - versus the total estimated console base of 206.2m (covering the current and previous generations of hardware, stat taken from VGChartz). It will only get bigger
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Pepsi Launch 3D casual marketing game... www.pepsi.se
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Ubisoft says casual development allowed them to take risks (they have been outselling Nintendo in this genera)
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Stardoll partners with Pink Ribbon for cancer and Makatoob to enter the Arab Market, wild tangent