Electronic Arts headlines today with the shutting down of EA Casual and their $150 million investment in online and digital distribution; the latest news from Ubisoft, WildTangent, Gameloft, and Wal-Mart (now the top US games retailer); China taxes virtual goods; Sandlot Games debuts Glyph for the iPhone; and more. Keep watching Casual Review for your [...]

Fresh from the oven is Cake Mania 3, released last weekend by Sandlot Games. When a game has reached its third instalment you know it has to be good, because enough people have clamored for more. And the long and short of this review is: if you loved the first two Cake Mania games, you’ll [...]

In making Glyph 2, veteran game developer Sandlot Games has gone back and redeveloped their sleeper hit, Glyph, packing it with more features than you can shake a magic wand at. The result is the transformation of Glyph from a simple little run of the mill match-3 collapse game with pretty graphics into a sort [...]

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 [...]

Let’s get this out of the way right at the top of this review: Go download and play this game. It’s a solid game, and 10x more fun than 90% of what we have reviewed over the last year. To be really honest, I was supposed to write this review about 24 hours ago, but [...]

Have you ever gotten a dreadful feeling while you’re playing a game demo that you’ve had just too much fun, and you’re worried that your time is about to run out? I got that feeling about forty minutes into playing Westward II: Heroes of the Frontier, just around the time I managed to build up [...]

Granny is at it again in Sandlot’s latest game, Super Granny 3. We know. You have questions, like “What is Granny doing this time?”,”She hasn’t keeled over yet?”, and “I’m hungry. Is there any food in the fridge?” Read on to find out the answers to all of these questions (sorry, we ate your food).

I’ve got to hand it to Sandlot. They know how to make a damn fun game. Westward is their latest foray into what I’ll call “casual real time strategy” and it’s a surefire winner. We’ll likely be seeing a whole slew of similar games coming out in the next year, and that’s a very good [...]

If the success of Cake Mania was any indication of how well service games do in the casual games market, then it would be no surprise to anyone that the developers decided to go back to their little game laboratories and concoct yet another version of the immensely successful cake-making game.

You know why I hate casual word games? Because I am tired of spelling the same 3-4 letter words over and over and over again while some timer stresses me out. And finally, someone has a game design that solves that: Word Monaco. Essentially, it’s classic solitaire, but instead of matching cards, you are matching [...]