Casual game Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Angry Birds hits 350 million downloads

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 13th, 2011)

Angry Birds continues its explosive growth. Almost 21 months after its December 2009 launch, the bird-flinging game now boasts of 350 million downloads and over 300 million minutes of gameplay each day. And its merchandising side is seeing similar gains. According to Andrew Stalbow, Rovio's ...

TUAW's Daily iPhone App: Air Penguin

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 30th, 2011)

Air Penguin from GAMEVIL is one of those deceptively simple, casual pick-up-and-play games for US$0.99 on the App Store. What I look for in these types of games are polish and a great control scheme. Luckily, Air Penguin has both. Your goal is to jump and slide your way through levels until your ...

Open Fire, a free casual Mac game

by Conrad Quilty-Harper (May 30th, 2006)

BlueTorch Studios in partnership with BlueGill Flame have released the final version of Open Fire, a casual top down shooter similar to the Linux game Barrage. Open Fire, which has been created using Unity's game editing software, was the winner of Unity's Dashboard Widget Competition. Keeping with ...