In a recent interview with PC Gamer, Braid developer Jonathan Blow stated that he believes that many of the social games that are currently dominating social networking sites like Facebook, are not very “social” at all. Unlike games like World of Warcraft or Counterstrike, in which “you actually meet new people in clans or guilds,” […]
Long thought dead behind its rival social networking site Facebook, Myspace is making a big push towards the social gaming front with the announcement of its creation of the Myspace Games Lab. Built with third-party development in mind, Myspace has also created an in-house team for internal IP creation. Confirmed studios within the program are […]
PopCap Games, publisher of nearly-every-social-game-worth-being-addicted-to, released a survey today, conducted by internal staff. Of the 5,000 respondents, 1/4th used social platforms like MySpace and Facebook. More interesting, the statistics averaged out to paint the picture of the average social gamer as being a 43 year-old female. Residents of both the United States and the United […]