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Implications with Classification of Hardcore and Casual

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2008-06-29 01:34:59 by Daniel in DP's Gamer Blog:: Mighty Pirate!
...hardcore in relation to software, consoles and the complete gaming demographic. To begin with we ought to try and define both of these terms Casual Gaming - A style of video games made for gaming consumers who play at a relatively low (read: casual) frequency. These games are often very accessible, dispensable and simplistic in nature...
 
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Unite casuals with the hardcore, dont separate them.

2008-03-28 16:18:57 by syncaine in Hardcore Casual
 
...hardcore overall players, the raiding elite of most other MMOs. As EVE statistics have shown, the majority of players stay in Empire space and tend to do the PvE elements of the game, mission running or high-sec mining. The key to EVEs amazing balance is that those Empire players (lets call them casuals) are not hurt by the raiding elite PvP...
 
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EA Sports: Hardcore Fans Shouldnt Fear Our New Casual Sports Approach

2008-05-22 18:00:19 by Patrick Klepek in MTV Multiplayer
 
...hardcore has been critical. Some members of EAs dedicated sports base have worried its a sign that EA is slowly ditching the hardcore for the casual. Hamlett contests this notion, however, and said EA is simply building another sports pillar for itself Hardcore fans are our base and our biggest fans, he said. Their opinions and seal of...
 
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Vegas Developer: Hardcore Shooter Market Too Narrow to be Viable

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2008-03-20 19:05:53 by Chris in Gaming Today
...hardcore shooter fix. In a LiveText Q&A with gamers recently, Vegas 2 developer Phil Therien was asked if there were any plans to release any of the more super-realistic shooters on the current wave of consoles I doubt we will ever go back to really hardcore only shooters. The market was too narrow for it to be a viable business choice. We...
 
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Who's "Hardcore" Anymore?

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2008-03-26 10:57:00 by SVGL in Sexy Videogameland
...hardcore" or "casual." Broadening gamer demographics and the fact that the arcade kiddos are grownups now makes those words pretty useless. The terms retain some usefulness in terms of labeling taste, albeit crudely -- Peggle is most assuredly a casual game, for example. But does that mean people who spend more than ten hours a week playing...
 
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Sega: Hardcore gamers shouldn't be 'excommunicated' from Wii

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2008-03-06 00:00:00 by Ross Miller in Joystiq
...hardcore gaming on the Wii. In short, Jeffrey feels that Western publishers are making a mistake by ignoring the hardcore gamers who own a Wii Unfortunately, other than providing a tantalizing and hypothetical (i.e. not happening) assertion that Condemned would have been great to play with the Wii remote, Jeffrey made no clear commitments to...
 
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LostWinds dev talks casual/hardcore, plus game length

2008-03-22 13:42:59 by RawmeatCowboy in GoNintendo
 
...hardcore gamers? Do you think real hardcore games would be a big hit on Wii DB : LostWinds is a game we have written for ourselves. There are many owners and fans of the Wii within Frontier, so we know the game appeals to at least our part of what you would probably call the hardcore Wii audience! Perhaps another way of looking at it is that...
 
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Commentary: EGM #1 shows NES hardcore lineup

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2008-04-22 10:37:23 by HASH0x84722d4 in Infendo - Nintendo blog
...hardcore list, wouldnt you say What I started thinking about, thanks to the NES, is that it is never the player thats hardcore, or even the games. Its the system theyre played on (hardcore is a marketing myth). The NES was the hardcore system of the late 1980s. No player was more hardcore than any other, because every player had their likes...
 
Tags: hardcore, hardcore system, pretty hardcore list, games, games cover, nes, pretty eclectic list, nintendo games, system
 
 
 
 
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Halo 3 adds Team Hardcore and Control playlists

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2007-12-21 13:30:00 by Dustin Burg in Xbox 360 Fanboy
...Hardcore and Team Control. Hardcore is a 4v4 playlist that features default use of the Battle Rifle and a motion tracker doesn't pickup any of the enemy's movements (but will show where your teammates are). It's truly hardcore stealth stuff. Control is also a 4v4 playlist that features nothing but control based gametypes including...
 
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Miyamoto To MTV: Why Wii Fit Is Not Mario Fit Also Talks The Pleasure Of Goals, Hardcore Gamer Complaints And New Characters

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