Tower Defense games are a favorite genre choice for many flash game creators, because despite its simple rules, it offers plenty of room for design and complexity. Plus, shooting things is a rest-assured, sound basis for fun. Still, defending your base with turrets doesn’t always have to be same thing as you’ll see this weekend. [...]

As a break from all that restaurant-dashing, crop-growing, puzzle-solving madness, Reflexive takes on the adrenaline rush experience in a more conventional way: with spaceships and plenty of guns. Swarm Gold is a remake of the original Swarm they created back in 1998, and with a word like “Gold” in the title, we were really expecting [...]

If you’ve ever felt your wrist and hand cramp up from clicking too much in a casual game, you might want to try System Mania. Its innovative use of mouse gestures will make you rethink what a click-management game is supposed to be like. Top it off with cute art and wacky levels and we’ve [...]

Juan Gril is the head of production at Joju Games, which recently released Fishing Craze. Previously he has worked for Yahoo! Games as lead producer for the downloadable games area and community manager of multi player games. We had a chance to speak to him about the amazing work he’s been doing for casual games.

Bored at work? Need a five-minute break? Instead of playing your usual games, why don’t you make your own game and show it off to your friends? Large Animal Games has created a whole slew of PlayWidgets, 10 little Flash applications for you to use and reuse to your heart’s content. Customize each Playwidget to [...]

Atomic Worm, by Charlie Dog Games, is a nifty title coming from the other end of the casual games spectrum. It’s a reinvention of several classic arcade concepts, polished and presented through simple geometric forms. More importantly, the game is completely free to play, and being a compact 6 megabytes in size, there’s absolutely no [...]

We take a step away from casual games and into the indie realm with Toribash, a violent 3D fighting multiplayer game with some very involved controls. It’s a game that takes a lot of effort to master, but is also extremely rewarding once you get the hang of it.
Toribash is the creation of Singapore-based Nabi [...]

Innovation is hard to come by, especially in the casual games industry where the same old game idea can sell more than a creative one. So when Punch Entertainment’s EGO came along, and we heard it won the Most Innovative Game award at this year’s Independent Games Festival (IGF) Mobile, we wanted to see what [...]

The developer known as UnikGame has bounced back into the brick breaker genre with BrickQuest 2, which comes wrapped in a great package of gameplay, graphics and music. While it’s very much a retro game in essence, it also uses lots of ideas and tricks from other games of recent years to make the entire brick breaking affair a [...]

Whoever thought to mix UNO with James Bond is brilliant. I hadn’t played UNO in a long time (not since childhood), and was worried this casual game wouldn’t appeal to me. But it’s hard not to like!