Industry executives continued to scoff at the idea of Apple being considered a serious games company.
Use only professional-quality goods: Serious games are always played with plastic cards, which are not as easily marked or damaged as paper ones.
This of course depends on people thinking of Facebook as a platform for more serious games, not just simple social games.
FORBES: How Meteor Games Competes With The Zyngas Of Social Gaming
Dave McCool, president and CEO of Muzzy Lane Software, said the challenge with serious games is to make them both fun and educational.
"The fact that 'Oregon Trail' and 'Carmen Sandiego' still stand out after 30 years isn't great from the perspective of how powerful good, serious games can be, " McCool said.
Our friends at TC are suggesting something more "serious games" focused, or perhaps something involving Niantic Labs' Ingress MMO, but it's all up in the air at this point.
Still, given the potential spending power of business travelers (and the companies that employ them), there is still a relative gap in the market for serious games that address their needs.
Ian Bogost, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a founding partner of Persuasive Games, theorizes that a shaky global economy has forced some companies to take a pause from investing in serious games.
Unfortunately, as described by Craig A. Hunter, a self proclaimed "pretty dedicated iPhone developer" who's been poking around the WebOS SDK, Palm does not provide the environment to develop serious games or the kind of sophisticated apps users now expect from their handhelds.
ENGADGET: webOS SDK bemoaned by iPhone developer as Palm seeks game API engineers
The Android release will be part of AIR 2.5 and grant would-be developers access to your smartphone's camera, microphone, accelerometer and GPS as well as providing hardware GPU acceleration and multitouch input, which could make for some exciting PopCap games completely serious and not at all game related utilities down the road.
ENGADGET: Adobe AIR 2.5 coming to Android in Q4 2010, but only to capable phones
The company is responsible for elevating video games to a serious recreational activity and booming, global business.
FORBES: Is Atari's Bankruptcy A Symbol Of The Shifting Business Software Space?
For free, it is worth checking out for a look at how mobile games can create serious, graphically involving real-time worlds.
He has put behind him the disappointment of not being selected for the Beijing Games and a serious knee injury in recent years.
BBC: Paralympics gold for Aled Davies in discus 'tremendous'
The games are a serious business that provides the only global platform from which companies can sell themselves--and corporate sponsors can't get enough.
"It is the idea of bringing in fun and games into a serious topic in order to try and enhance engagement, " Dr Owen explained.
The public has also reacted to the fact that, knowing this problem existed, the Dodger organization failed to do what was necessary to protect those attending ball games from this serious threat to their safety.
FORBES: Suspect Arrested In Brutal Los Angeles Dodger Stadium Attack
How many points does one score with the serious crowd by laughing at video games?
"Unfortunately I had quite a serious neck injury going into the games which I had for about 12 months before, " she said.
Frankly, Asia is way ahead of us on this one, and Western developers and publishers like Fake Games need to play serious catch up if they want to remain relevant.
FORBES: Fake News: Solitaire Developer Says Game Will Go 'Massively Multiplayer'
The 1988 to 1992 period, Seoul to Barcelona, is the point at which the Paralympic Games started to really get serious.
The defending champions, who slipped to their fifth defeat in six league games, are now in serious trouble at the bottom of the table and face a major battle to qualify for the play-offs, let alone retain the title.
Mayor Boris Johnson said promoting London to industry leaders during the Games had resulted in "25 serious business leads".
However, the popularity of simple games available on smartphones is now a serious threat to dedicated portable gaming devices such as Sony's PlayStation Portable.
The decision to make these games always-online is a big one that impacts the way games are played and enjoyed in a serious way, sometimes for the better but also sometimes for the worse.
FORBES: What 'SimCity' And Always-Online DRM Mean For Video Game Reviews
The US government will show how its employees serious it is about cybersecurity issues using online games.
Carlesimo, who acknowledged keeping tabs on the Pacers as the game in Toronto wound down, said his staff will have "serious conversations" about resting players for the final two games of the season.
This is the greatest country on earth and will continue to be the greatest country on earth as long as we can go ahead and handle serious problems that we have, instead of playing political games all the time.
In both games they had looked light in midfield, a serious deficiency for a side so committed to attack.
"Infinity Blade, " meanwhile, is Apple's answer to serious gamers who think the iPhone is only for silly casual games.
Wilkie had played three reserve games in a bid to prove his fitness after serious knee problems threatened his career.
BBC: SPORT | Football | My Club | Dundee Utd | Wilkie signs Dundee United deal
应用推荐