BoosterMedia says it will introduce various enhancements to its mobile games distribution platform at the Casual Connect Europe event in Hamburg, including new features like friend connections, virtual currencies, achievements and leaderboards.
Games industry veteran Trip Hawkins (founder of EA, 3DO and Digital Chocolate) has just given a keynote entitled "The Supercasual Social Revolution" at the Casual Connect conference in Seattle.
Last week, during the Casual Connect conference, I spoke to several of Popcap's most senior designers and producers about how the company approaches game design, and how it operates within the industry.
This might not be the announcement bomb that some wanted from this week's Casual Connect conference in pop cap's home town of Seattle, but these are neat additions to the Popcap catalogue, and they'll do until the company finally reveals what its workers have really been beavering away on for the past 18 months.
Speaking at the Casual Connect game conference in Seattle, Gabe Newell said the next version of Windows could mean big changes to the PC market.
He is a frequent panelist at tech conferences such as LeWeb Paris, CES Las Vegas, GDC, Casual Connect.
Altitude Games plans to announce its first title in May during Casual Connect Asia, an annual industry event in Singapore.
At Casual Connect Seattle, a three-day meeting of casual game developers that kicks off Wednesday, Ada Chen, Mochi Media's director of marketing, will show off her company's suite of advertising and analytics tools to monetize casual games.
Today, Facebook is formally announcing that effort at the Casual Connect conference in San Francisco, and they're putting a call out for developers that are looking to participate.
When talking to many indies at Casual Connect, for example, I learned that almost all of them work in Unity 3D and associated tools.
(If you'd like to hear more, come see me talk about microconsoles some more at Casual Connect this week in San Francisco).
