If you’re interested in winning money playing games like bejeweled, gin rummy, is good for you. It sounds like a lot of hype, but really, it’s not. In fact, you can go on the Internet and make money playing games. There are a lot of people who do this, and they have a lot of fun playing ...

A while back, I was interviewed for a little blurb in the Carleton Voice about the changing audience of games. I just stumbled across the e-mail in which I gave my rambling, incoherent answers to the writer's straightforward questions: 1. It seems that gaming is gaining an increasingly wide audience...

According to Advertising Age, one of the more offensive ad campaigns of recent days has cracked the top ten of most memorable/most liked spots for the week.  The ads for TGI Friday's feature the hacktastic Guy Fieri speaking directly to the viewer, in one of them saying "hey buddy, your da...

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['Chewing Pixels' is a regular GameSetWatch column written by British games journalist and producer, Simon Parkin. This latest instalment deals with Nintendo's marketing of the 'Touch Generations' series as something beyond games.] “In every job that must be done there is an element of fun. Find t...

The Social Gaming Summit was quite a success on Friday. Over 400 attendees seemed to enjoy the sessions based on the high proportion of people in sessions (vs in the lobby) and the fact that even the last session, that ended at 6pm on Friday evening, was very well attended. The attendee list was a g...

Social Gaming Summit today Thanks again to Charles Hudson for inviting me to attend the Social Gaming Summit. I won't spend too much time summarizing the content of the conference, because of the Efficient Blogging Market Hypothesis, which states: For every conference event summary that's posted, th...

[In this opinion piece from game theorist and interactive fiction developer Emily Short, we look at the casual 'time management' genre, as typified by Diner Dash - and why it's actually strangely well-suited to meaningful story.] There is a line of argument I've seen in quite a few places, which goe...

Having broken the cardinal rule of never arriving on campus between 12 and 1, I spend the forty-five minutes I'd carefully put between myself and my appointment circling and circling looking for a legal visitor spot.  During one of those swings I ran into the Fake Boyfriend, who was on campus f...

If your Mario Kart on Wii craze has died down then maybe you would like to test your culinary skills in a Hell's Kitchen kind of setting. Order Up! Is a mix of Cooking Mama and Diner Dash; in the game you start from scratch, at the bottom rung in a fast food. You work your way up to becoming your ow...