Yesterday Bally Technologies announced that they will launch a new interactive division focusing on the company’s mobile, Internet and social initiatives. My recommendation to Bally is to focus on the total player experience and build a strong team of user experience professionals and give them a strong mandate! /Staffan
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Chiligaming today announced that they in the beginning of October will release “The World’s First Multi-Device Free-Play Social Gaming Poker Network“, chiliplay.com This is an interesting move for a online gambling poker company and they will probably focus on the US market (Chiligaming is about to open an office in San Francisco). I’m not sure [...]
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Hi everyone! I’m happy with all you visiting and reading my blog, but it would be even more fun if you guys would make comments on my posts. One of my goals with the blog is to get the discussion started when it comes to user experience and igaming. So please make more comments! Even [...]
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This week ChiliPoker introduced a new social networking tool called Chiliconnect which let their players share results, connect with other players, challenge players among other features. A lot of people in the business say that this is the most innovative thing within the online poker industry since Rush Poker from Full Tilt. I would call [...]
Read moreGamification, game dynamics and game mechanics are terms used more and more but what does it mean for gaming portals? “Gamification is the process of integrating game dynamics and game mechanics into a website, business service, online community, content portal, or marketing campaign in order to drive participation and engagement.” (Defintion by Bunchball) Game mechanics [...]
Read moreApple released Game Center in their latest version of iOS (4) and it is available on the iPhone and iPod Touch. It will be available on the iPad with the release of iOS 4.2 coming next month. With Game Center players can play games against other players, either friends or players they don’t know. The [...]
Read moreSummer is over and it is time to start blogging again. Welcome back everyone! The igaming industry have an interesting future with all that is happening in the business at the moment. Everything from regulated markets, the decline in poker to merger talks between bwin and PartyGaming. What will it take to be a winner [...]
Read moreToday I read that 888 is buying assets from Real Dice, a social games developing company. This is very exciting news because I believe that in the future social games will be a very important part of igaming, and it looks like 888 is taking a big step in that direction. A player wants to [...]
Read moreThe 1-day workshops, Gaming Portals of the Future, running in September and October: Stockholm: September 28th London: October 3rd are now open for registrations. It doesn’t matter if you work as a product owner, product manager, designer, programmer or something else, this workshop is for you! It will be a day where you will learn [...]
Read moreEGR Live is a free conference and exhibition taking place in London in a few weeks. The conference is what interest me the most and a few sessions are really something I would like to attend. Sessions of interests Yahoo Research: Understanding the online gambler How the online gaming industry is going mainstream Spotlight on [...]
Read moreLast week I attended Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. It was a good conference with gave me lots of new insights that can be applied within the igaming industry. A few key points from Web 2.0 Expo are: Customer Experience: Companies need to focus on the total experience, not just the games. It is everything [...]
Read moreImage 1. Zynga’s Facebook App Poker Blitz. Last week Zynga launched a new game on Facebook called Poker Blitz. It is a poker game that have many cool features, features I’m missing on poker sites today. They have a “Weekly Team Challenge” where you get “cash” depending on how you and your team mates play [...]
Read moreThis year’s International Gaming Expo (IGE), incorporating ICEi, is over and I’m back home. My reflections from the expo are mixed. Most positive: I was impressed by Net Entertainment and Betsoft’s games. The quality in their games is really good. It is especially interesting to see that Betsoft incorporate their controls as a part of the game. [...]
Read moreThis year’s IGE is just a few weeks away and I’m starting to get excited about the event. It will be great to find out what will be the next big things in the igaming industry this year. I believe the following topics (among others) will be very important for igaming companies this year: personalisation social [...]
Read moreDo you develop gaming software? Do you prototype? If you do prototyping then great! If you don’t, then it is time to start doing it! A prototype is a representative model of the final product. Why should you build prototypes? Prototyping is an interative and generative process. You’ll never get the best solution at your [...]
Read moreIt is just a little over a month left until the International Gaming Expo takes place in London between the 26th and 28th of January. It will be very interesting to find out if there are any new innovations within the industry. Maybe some new mobile solutions? Or maybe a new poker game? Will I [...]
Read morePeople like to be around other people for many different reasons, for instance be part of a group or be recognised for their skills. Playing on a multiplayer slots you either play against or with other players. The design of the slot needs to be very different if it is a slot where you play WITH [...]
Read moreWhy not sign up for the weekly UXiGaming newsletter? The newsletter will be sent every tuesday starting December 1st. Why should you sign up? You’ll get a newsletter containing: Blog posts posted last weeks along with comments and relevant links. Links to industry news concerning igaming, social media and user experience. “UXiGaming’s weekly offer” “Question [...]
Read moreImage 1. Top 25 Facebook games in October. (by InsideSocialGames.com) Games played on Facebook have a large user base and I believe it is because of their social features. Letting players play inside Facebook and/or on their iPhone insted of having to go play on a portal is the key. For instance Zynga’s poker have [...]
Read moreImage 1. A winner’s alert. Let players post results on their social networks! Why not let your players be your marketing people? One way of doing this is to make it possible for them to post results on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and other social networks. By doing so friends there will read about it and your [...]
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