Daily Linksplosion: Thursday, March 12, 2009
- Variety – The Cut Scene – Investment in casual social gaming boomingI know, right? It’s just nice to hear Variety say so.
- WIRED – Getting Lucky: Hard-Core Gamers Penetrate Peggle’s PhysicsClive Thompson writes: "For a casual gamer, Peggle seems too heavily based on luck. You aim the ball, but once you’ve dropped it and it hits the first peg, all bets are off: It bounces and careens through the forest of pegs in crazy, zigzagging patterns. For casual players, there doesn’t seem to be a clear enough correlation between how they aim and the results. But hard-core gamers see the game quite differently. When they look at the Peggle board, they see the Euclidean geometry that governs how the ball falls and pings around."
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