The Youtube site might have streaming videos covered, but what about games? A site where anyone can visit, play a few, and even share it with all their friends. That’s what Heyzap is, a Youtube for casual games. GotGame has your burning questions covered through an exclusive interview with Heyzap founders Immad Akhund and Jude Gomila, whose London accents charmed us into loving the idea, not that they needed to. Read More »
Casual Games, Gamer Culture, PC
If you’re still an AOL Instant Messenger user, you may have been a bit perplexed by the “QQ games” application offered with the latest update last fall. The name may not be very prominent here yet, but China-based Tencent’s QQ brand is absolutely huge in its native country. Games, music downloads, and China’s most popular instant messaging service all rolled into one - QQ is omnipresent.
Since their grand debut in 1997, social networking sites have drawn hundreds of millions of users to communities such as Facebook and MySpace. Recently, casual game applications have sprung up within these networking powerhouses, allowing players to compete in wildly popular game variations such as Scrabulous or Texas Hold’em Poker. Half a million users on Facebook have taken up the Scrabulous challenge, and plenty of others kill time in any of the site’s over 500 other game-related applications.
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