Welcome back to Casual Core, the monthly column that explores the world of gamers who fall in between the cracks. We’re either hardcore casuals or casual hardcore gamers, but I prefer to call us the Casual core. This month: casual gaming friends.

Why writing game guides is rewarding and soul destroying at the same time.

This week we crank out our new column on casual gaming.

Summertime is big for movies -- but it is supposedly a dead period for games. We take a look at the Top Ten games to hit the scene during the so called summer doldrums.

We catch up with the Associate Producer of the Hot Shots series in this post mortem interview.

While narrowing down all the frustrating moments in gaming is an impossible task, we asked our News Director to wax poetic about his trials and tribulations from God of War to...Mario Party? He'll have to explain...

Our resident crank, Mr. Binky, peers into his tongue-in-cheek crystal ball and reveals the games that will slip and miss their 2008 calendar release date. Probably. Maybe.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas so buy something indie!

This week I drink the Digital Eel Kool-aid.

It is ironic that we return to the world of the living during eve of Halloween...