What's been going on lately in the industry of casual games? This question worries not only industry people, but ordinary mortals looking for peaceful and funny games on the net and in the retail stores. What is going to happen this year on the market? Will there be anything innovative? Or is the market stagnating?

Having gathered it all on one page, I got a strong desire to find out which of  them are true or false.  For that sake, we interviewed several "sharks" of the casual games industry (in fact "whales" is a better word given the peaceful face of the whole market) during the greatest developer get-together at the conference held in Amsterdam, Netherlands this February.  

Spring is everywhere now, though not many people can admit that. This is the case with the guys from WellGames.com.

They have been so absorbed with their work lately that they didn't seem to notice the seasonal change. But here are the results of what they've done: four more ever-popular games have sprung at WellGames and now can be played online by hundreds of people on the web due to their multiplayer API.

Similarly to people, games are born, get older, and are under the threat of popularity breakdown. This is why, just like people, games have kids:). Well, seriously, developers tend to produce sequels to their hit games in order to strengthen player's interest towards the products, not to let the titles die out with time.

Seems like people began playing with words soon after the words were invented.  But has there been any new word puzzles on the net worth trying for a modern person, who's fed up with scrabbles and crosswords? Many developers  work on creating new word games, and we are glad to present you with the freshest and most notable fruit of their work.

On the 2nd day of the CGA: Europe West 2007 conference, which gathered more than 500 people from all of the leading casual game companies, new and old companies, big and small companies, garage and official ones, with 100 employees and with just one, the history of the first casual games awards has started in a cozy Amsterdam club.

St. Valentine's Holiday is here. On this exceptional day we decided to make our editorial somewhat untraditional. On the day when emotions run wide and everything is pierced with love, we'd like make a love confession...