Ball Battling
Chinese casual eSports game Battle of Balls hits 300 million users worldwide
Big plans for this year's tournaments
Casual Wars
Disney and Genera Games reveal first ever casual puzzle Star Wars game Star Wars: Puzzle Droids
You can never have enough Star Wars games
Casual Evolution
The ascendance of hyper-casual part two: What defines the genre?
AppLovin's Johannes Heinze continues his detailed analysis of a new genre
A Perfect Match?
Can traditional analogue game mechanics make successful F2P casual titles?
231 Play on going back to basics to find a niche
Zynga Solitaire
Zynga acquires four Solitaire games from little-known developer for $42.5 million
Harpan LLC just made a killing
Status Quo
The ascendance of hyper-casual part one: Drawing the lines between the different gaming genres
Part one of three: Status quo
New Lords
Strategy specialist InnoGames snaps up Warlords IP from Wooga
CEOs Hendrik Klindworth and Jens Begemann explain the deal
Growing Up
How TabTale is moving beyond kids' games and into super casual
Itai Edry explains the strategy at White Nights Prague
Gram London
Gram Games to invest $5 million in its London HQ and create 30 new jobs
Developer doubles down on new home
Storm8 Job Losses
Storm8 cuts over half its workforce with 130 jobs lost
Streamlining business
30 Million Brains
MAG Interactive's WordBrain surpasses 30 million downloads
Sees one million players on its first Facebook Instant Game
Going Casual
Casual games developers discuss the difficulties of shipping casual mobile games
Martine Spaans leads the chat
Cost-effective Ua
Women in US more likely to buy IAPs than men
Liftoff breaks down all the demographics
Perfect Fit
MobilityWare on why it bought Critical Hit Software and its ambitions for 2017
Why the card game specialist picked up Jigsaw Puzzle dev
Keep It Casual
MobilityWare picks up casual developer Critical Hit Software for its Jigsaw Puzzle and ColorArt titles
Casual developer acquires casual developer
The Ideal Mixi
Marvel Tsum Tsum developer Mixi on catering to the new casual Marvel fan
Senior Producer Erika Nakamura explains why Disney chose Mixi
Warner Slots
Warner Bros enters the social casino market with Extra Slots Stars
Still a tie-in production, but more casual than usual
Fix Up Look Sharp
Ubisoft launches new casual title Face Up, its first mobile game following the Ketchapp acquisition
Maybe looking into the casual market a little more intently?
Going To China
Pokemon GO aiming for release in China, says Pokemon Company's CEO
New features still on their way
Wooga Job Cuts
Wooga cuts 40 jobs amid a restructuring of its casual games development
Black Anvil seemingly unaffected
Scaling Up
1010! developer Gram Games on opening a new London studio and developing midcore games
New recruit Alex Willink reveals all about the company's plans
All Aboard
Ex-Kabam COO Chris Carvalho joins G5 Entertainment's board of directors
Mobcrush and Playfab investor on board
All About Volume
Why 25-person Israeli studio Ilyon Dynamics releases up to 10 games a week
From army officers to casual game developers
Storm8 Study
Germany, Japan, and Russia play three times more casual games than any other market, claims Storm8
Most gaming done during the weekdays
Ongoing Quest
How a retention focus and data-led difficulty helped Sudoku Quest outgross its competition
Hashcube CMO Gurinder Pal Singh on monetising casual games
Match That
Key trends that are changing the way match-3 puzzle games play and monetize
Yevgeniy Maiboroda matches the changes
Bet Him It Won't
XBLA creator Greg Canessa on why real-money gaming portal Sparcade will revolutionize casual F2P game monetization
What GSN Games did next
Bet A Buck
Launching with Tetris and Pac-Man, GSN Games announces its competitive-yet-casual real-money platform Sparcade
A new way to win
Easy Peasy
As devs drift towards midcore, is there an opportunity for super casual experiences?
231 Play founder Matthias Hoechsmann thinks so
Show Me The Money
Slither.io is ripping up the download charts, but has it really only made $72,000?
So reckons Apptopia
Nextgen Snake
Will the success of Slither.io have a lasting effect on indie mobile games?
The Indie Mavens weigh in
Casual-core
Casual games steal midcore's clothes as Candy Blast Mania adds PVP Puzzle Tournaments
A new retention trend
Classics Digitised
Gamedoctors founders aim to "casualize" analogue classics with new Berlin studio 231 Play
Debut game will be Peppy Pairs Paradise
Bubble Wilbur Saga
King soft-launches new entry in Bubble Witch Saga series, disguises it as "Wilbur"
Calling the package "com.king.bubblewitch3" a bit of a giveaway
Luck Of The Roll
Netmarble combines Everyone's Marble with Disney characters, announcing its Disney Magical Dice virtual board game
Korean publisher steps up
Never The Twain
Wooga on its tactical separation of core and casual development, and why wearables will trump VR
Jens Begemann and Wilhelm Oesterberg on the casual/midcore divide
Trump That
GameDuell switches focus from casual to cross-platform card and board games
Shuts down internal studio
Cash In
iWin signs a 5 game eSports deal with Skillz
Can eSports be casual?
Bffs
Seriously doubles down on Best Fiends IP with sequel Best Fiends: Forever
Currently in soft launch
Everyone Is Core
Playtika's Alex Galasso on why the casual gamer is dead
Big change happening
Monster Money
Mino Games' midcore Mino Monsters 2 generates $1.7m in revenue in first month
Plans on growing the company
Portfolio Effect
Storm8's Ramine Darabiha on the challenges and opportunities of running 45 games-as-a-service
The power of many titles
Housewife Downloads
Video: Best practices for making and marketing casual games
Keeping it casual
Apply Now
How to get a job at Berlin casual developer GameDuell
Head of HR Rüdiger von Hennig reveals top tips
Your Move
Relentless on why casual devs should look to board games for inspiration
Life after Buzz
Fresh Jobs
Berlin's GameDuell recruiting for 5 high-profile roles
Developers, Artists, Engineers, and more
A New Strategy
Strategy expert Goodgame Studios goes soft, announcing its first casual game
Hires King's Daniel Persson
One-touch Success
Super Casual games dominate app stores in February
App Annie highlights success of ZigZag and Crossy Road
Video
SkyMobi on targeting the bulk of Chinese mobile gamers who live in third tier cities
Knowledge from PG Connects Helsinki 2014
Casual Connect Usa
"Marketing is cool, but product is king," says Sega veteran on creating quality casual games
Jill Braff reveals all at Casual Connect