Developers, Publishers, and Portals

10tons Entertainment
2D Boy
300ad.com
3inabed.com
5th Cell
Abduction Studios
Absolutist
Addicting Games
Addictive 247 Games
Adept Studios
Aisle 5 Games
Alawar Games
Alby Media
Alessi Games
Aliasworlds Entertainment
Alive Games
Alpha 72 Games
Always Neat
Amaranth Games
Anarchy Entertainment
Anawiki
AncientSoft
Andromedus Software
Another Day
AOL Games
AppAbove
Apus Software
Arcade Lab
Arcade Town
Armor Games
Article 19 Group
Astatix
Artogon Games
Aterdux Entertainment
Audio Surf
Awem Studio
Awesome Mega Mighty Games
BadBumble
Bee Games
Beep Industries
Ben Olding Games
Big Blue Bubble Inc.
Big Fish Games
Big Fizz
Big Toe
Blackburst Media
Blackjack Studios
Blazewave
Blippy Games
Blitwise Productions
Blue [...]

There are some words we love to write when doing reviews of casual games: Quirky, Original, Addictive, Puzzling, Fun. We get to use all of those words in this review, and likely not often enough. To be honest, it’s starting to seem like there are only 3 designs for casual games out there these days: [...]

OK, this week, we give you three games with balls. By that, of course, we mean the real balls, not the figurative ones. Interestingly enough, all three take a very simple, single game mechanic based on interacting with spherical objects, and make a completely different game from it. Good stuff. Now let’s get to the [...]

The fox cub Sprill is probably the least likely hero I’d expect for Alawar’s underwater-themed casual games, yet Sprill – The Mystery of The Bermuda Triangle is not his first appearance! Sprill first appeared in a very different kind of game, the marble shooter Sprill Aqua Adventures. This time around, there are no marbles to [...]

We Casual Review folks love casual games, and this is because we don’t just work at reviewing games, we also make them. I’ve been away from this site for the past few months for certain game-related reasons. I’d humbly like to show you one of these reasons:
Hoyle Enchanted Puzzles!

We make no secret of the fact that there are a few developers out there that we really like. Small innovative studios like Amaranth, Katgames, and Enkord have consistently put out games that either created or reinvented genres, and we’re always happy to help them pimp their stuff. Codemenion is definitely one of those studios: [...]

It has begun. For years the doom mongers have cried “the time of the independent game developer is gone! Soon all games will be exclusively distributed by portals!” Well, it looks like the world has taken a big step in that direction with the new Myth Match, developed exclusively for Yahoo! Games by Mumbo Jumbo, [...]

With all of the hype, people can forget that Luxor, when it originally came out, was considered just a clone of Zuma. However, that was never entirely true. Luxor did use a very similar base mechanic to Zuma, but it added the cool factor of having an Arkanoid-style piece along the bottom that could collect [...]

OK, there are a lot of games out there whre you spit things at encroaching waves or chains of things. That’s leading a lot of people to decry casual games as a bunch of clones, and to some degree there is truth to that. But actually, some of these “clones” are better than others, and [...]

The common wisdom on casual games is that they should be easy, slow, and somewhat… sedate. Someone forgot to give Pi Eye Games the memo. Another entry in the “ball shooter” genre, this one takes a strong twist for the more frantic and visually stimulating. It is to Zuma what “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas” [...]