Casual Gaming. Its a phrase often used nowadays. Casual games are usually simple games that are easy to pick up and play, and are often targetted for a mass audience (as compared to the more genre-specific console games, which often have many levels of gameplay and take a while to grasp). The successful Nintendo Wii is possibly the latest incarnation of casual gaming, taking natural movements and translating them into on-screen actions means that anyone with very little or no gaming experience can pick up the Wii Remote (Wiimote?) and play.
Nowadays, you can find casual games on the web all over the place. They’re embedded into blog posts, they’re created around product launches, and more recently they’ve been turned into Facebook applications. Non-gamers are stumbling upon these games and are becoming hooked, even after only a couple of plays.
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Due to a hosting server problem and an error in my .htaccess file, the site was down for a few hours. Apologies to those trying to access the site in that time but, as you can see, we are now back up and running ok.
UPDATE: We are still experiencing problems with the .htaccess file - something is screwing with the formatting of the site (as you can see). Please bear with me!
UPDATE 2: Thanks to the great support team at Media72, the site is back from the dead.
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TV over the Internet is a big thing nowadays. Up until a couple of years ago, most people did not have connections with a high enough bandwidth to cope with TV. Low quality video clips were acceptable but generally not part of the “internet experience”
YouTube (and the crop of similar sites that popped up not long afterwards) changed all of that as it provided a Flash interface to online videos, removing the need to worry about numerous plugins and varying controls depending on what format the video was in. Video started to be incorporated into websites and it soon became commonplace. Then Google bought YouTube for quite a lot of money and the commercial world really started to take note.
TV networks and advertisers are now keen to capitalise the audience they have on the Internet. They’ve realised that this untapped market of viewers haven’t stopped watching TV, they’ve just changed the way they watch it. Instead of sitting in front of a box in their living room, they’re now watching TV from their laptops.
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