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March 21st, 2012

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Gaming is Up – 56% of Households Own at least One Current Generation Gaming Console

March 10th, 2012

Gamers have more choices than ever when it comes to satisfying their fun needs. There are consoles, PC games, mobile games, web games and many in-between choices. It seems that the amount of choices isn’t confusing for gamers, but helps in fueling the gaming industry.

According to Nielsen, total gaming time is up 7% in 2011. 56% own at least one current generation gaming console (such as Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3) as of January 2012, up from 50% last year. Gamers increasingly play across multiple screens: 24% play on two or more of a console, a PC or a mobile / tablet device, up from 17% in 2009.

Where do gamers play? 65% of consoles are located in the living room. Nintendo Wii leads (75 percent) but Kinect for Microsoft Xbox 360 is helping to shift that platform toward communal spaces.

Not surprisingly, people buy a lot of their games online. E-commerce shopping trips for games are up 3 percent over last year, while other channels experienced declines.

New SimCity Game will be Available on 2012

March 7th, 2012

10 years after the last SimCity game, SimCity 4, Maxis unveiled plans to resurrect the 23-year-old metropolis-building franchise.

The new PC game will have features like the ability to add curvy roads, multiplayer games and new and improved disasters (great…).

Here’s the announcement trailer for the new SimCity game:

Frogs Can Play Ant Smasher, too!

December 21st, 2011

A few days back, a lizard playing Ant Smasher on a tablet became a viral video hit. Now, it’s the frog’s turn to strut its stuff. They can play, mind you, they just don’t always want to…

Angry Birds Peace Treaty – a Viral Hit

November 23rd, 2010

If you own an iPhone or an Android-based mobile phone, you probably know Angry Birds. Over 10 million copies of the game have been sold on the iPhone platform alone, and Angry Birds is by far the most popular cellular game of the year.

The game is talked about all over the net, people write about their Angry Birds games and the time it had stolen from them, buy merchandise that’s based on the game, and now – there’s a comedy sketch on TV about it. This sketch comes all the way from Israel. It was originally posted on the program’s website, in Hebrew. The success of the clip urged the creators to make an English version, and here it is – what happens when the birds and the pigs try to sign a peace treaty?

The sketch has many underlining political insinuations about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and about rude Israeli behavior. I must admit it’s a hell of a lot funnier in Hebrew, but it seems the global crowd likes it – the clip is high on the viral videos chart, gets mentioned all over the net and at the moment has over 300K views on YouTube.

Here it is: