Holly won't stay in touch with 'Ice' stars Mar 17, 2008
Flo's back and better than ever in Diner Dash 2. Seat customers, take orders, collect tips, and help Flo and her friends defeat Mr. Big. (Digital Spy)
Games Girls Play Mar 15, 2008
25 billion for such games last year, and the demand for titles like "Diner Dash" is growing 20% year-over-year, according to the Casual Gaming Association ... But casual female-targeted gaming hits with female heroines, such as "Diner Dash" and "Wedding Dash," make it clear that casual game developers are attacking far broader swaths of the population than the traditional 18-to-35-year-old male demographic coveted by makers of hardcore games. (Forbes -- Technology)
iPhone Games Mar 15, 2008
Casual games like Bejeweled, Diner Dash, and Tower Bloxx would be perfect fits on a touchscreen. Essentially, your finger is the mouse -- and this opens up the opportunity for all casual game makers to immediately look at there catalogs for ports. (IGN Wireless Games)
The future of video games Feb 22, 2008
Focus on the mass marketUntil the Wii and the success of online games ranging from Diner Dash to World of Warcraft game developers largely ignored the mass market. The assumption was that gamers would want to figure out complicated button combinations on their PlayStation controller. (MSNBC -- Technology)
GDC: The "Tragic" State of PC Gaming Feb 21, 2008
"The fascinating thing is when they first started, all these games came out like Peggle and Mystery Files and Alice Greensleeves and Diner Dash, and it felt quite exciting. There was a lot of innovation going on. Okay, there weren't great graphics, but there was innovation.". Except that in Molyneux's view, that innovation's completely stopped. (PC World)
PlayFirst Announces $30,000 in Grants to Independent Game Developers Feb 19, 2008
The company's portfolio includes the world-renowned Diner Dash franchise, as well as top-selling games such as Wedding Dash(TM), Chocolatier, and Dream Chronicles(TM) ... PlayFirst, Playground SDK, Diner Dash, Wedding Dash, Chocolatier, Dream Chronicles, and all related titles, logos, and characters are trademarks of PlayFirst, Inc. PlayFirst, Diner Dash, and Chocolatier are registered in the U.S.. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
More news on video games Feb 12, 2008
Similar to other "serving" games, like Cake Mania and Diner Dash, your goal is to handle a seemingly endless stream of customers, buy upgrades to increase your productivity (or to make the joint more attractive) and of course make a lot of money in the process ... And the majority of gamers aren't just going for hardcore fantasy role-playing games like "World of Warcraft" or shooters like Halo 3, but for pick-up-and-play titles such as Bejeweled, Diner Dash, Cake Mania and other "casual" PC... (USA Today -- Tech)
Diner Dash: Home ... Feb 9, 2008
Diner Dash: Hometown Hero. On a visit to her hometown, Flo and her Grandma Florence take a stroll down memory lane. (USA Today -- Tech)
Diner Dash - Flo on the Go Jan 26, 2008
Improve the restaurants decoration, choose your outfit as your wardrobe extends, and make good use of the new items which add a little spice to the task (baby chairs, mop, etc): The Diner Dash saga will keep you going. BUY FULL GAME FOR ONLY $ 14. (USA Today -- Tech)
Users call up more services of mobile phones Jan 21, 2008
She quickly became an expert at solitaire, then Zuma, then Diner Dash. Now she doesn t have nearly as much time to play, but she estimates that she still gets in an hour a week, accumulated a few minutes at a time. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Diner Dash: Hometown Hero Jan 14, 2008
Sign up to get coupons, news, discounts, cheats, etc. On a visit to her hometown, Flo and her Grandma Florence take a stroll down memory lane. (USA Today -- Tech)
Girls Going Crazy - For Casual Video Games Jan 2, 2008
But don't expect to see "The Warriors" or "Halo." Instead, the 2 billion-plus casual games biz is serving up titles like "Be My Bra" and "Diner Dash." ... In "Diner Dash," a waitress tries to keep up with the demands of needy customers, while "Be My Bra" is a breast cancer awareness dress-up game. (New York Post -- Business)
PlayFirst Reveals The Nightshift Code(TM) Dec 21, 2007
The company's portfolio includes the world-renowned Diner Dash franchise, as well as top-selling games such as Wedding Dash(TM), Chocolatier, and Dream Chronicles(TM) ... PlayFirst, the PlayFirst logo, The Nightshift Code, Diner Dash, Wedding Dash, Chocolatier and Dream Chronicles are trademarks of PlayFirst, Inc. PlayFirst, the PlayFirst logo, Chocolatier and Diner Dash are registered trademarks in the U.S.. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
PlayFirst raises $16.5 million Dec 20, 2007
San Francisco-based PlayFirst makes so-called "casual" games like Diner Dash. It raised $10 million in its first two rounds. (San Francisco Business Journal)
Imagine.... More female... Dec 11, 2007
Until they are served up something more challenging that the slop that is currently on offer (I'm looking at you Diner Dash) the two groups will remain polar opposites. What are some of the benefits of having more women working in games development. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
VIDEOGAMES:The Office Nov 16, 2007
Fans wont find even a hint of the dry humor thats the shows trademark and will want to avoid this Diner Dash rip-off like a trip to the Schrute family beet farm ... Rather than come up with a way to capture the shows comedy, MumboJumbo instead jammed The Office into the uber-popular downloadable game Diner Dash. (Variety)
Glu Mobile Reports Third Quarter 2007 Financial Results Nov 2, 2007
We have recently extended our relationships with SEGA and PopCap Games, announced Diner Dash 2, and signed a new partnership with Big Fish Games. Combined with our recently announced lineup of original IP titles, we believe this represents our best publishing lineup. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Casual games rake in $2.25 billion Oct 31, 2007
The Diner Dash franchise from PlayFirst is another consistent hit that makes its appearance both on Mac and Windows platforms, along with Big Fish Games Mystery Case Files. Keeping that in mind, the CGA reports that the rapid growth of the casual games market has prompted companies to create games for more audiences across more platforms, including the Mac. (MacCentral)
Gaming more popular than social networking Oct 22, 2007
And the majority of gamers aren't just going for hardcore fantasy role-playing games like "World of Warcraft" or shooters like Halo 3, but for pick-up-and-play titles such as Bejeweled, Diner Dash, Cake Mania and other "casual" PC games. While 34% of those surveyed say they play online games, 29% watch short videos and 19% visit social networking sites with the same frequency. (USA Today -- Tech)
Diner Dash 2 - Restaurant Rescue Oct 17, 2007
USA TODAY Arcade allows you to play Diner Dash 2 for free for 1 hour over a period of 30 days. People who have liked this game have also liked. (USA Today -- Tech)
Craigslist posting spawns casual gaming firm Oct 13, 2007
The game 'Diner Dash' sold 200,000 copies at $20 each. There are real opportunities to have a hit. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Diner Dash: Hometown Hero game debuts Sep 27, 2007
The fourth in a series of Diner Dash games, this title follows a familiar course: You re Flo, an entrepreneurial restaurant owner with a dream of making it big in the food service game ... Diner Dash: Hometown Hero requires Mac OS X v10. (MacCentral)
Paradise Pet Salon casual game ships for Mac Sep 8, 2007
Paradise Pet Salon is cut from the same cloth as popular titles like Diner Dash you have to tend to the needs of individual customers while racing around, timing your trips to the different stations well enough to make sure to make everyone happy (and get paid). As you work your way up the ladder you ll be able to upgrade your salon and move into bigger digs. (MacCentral)
White-hot market Sep 8, 2007
Try a career in casual - On the Level - MSNBC.com. Try a career in casual. (MSNBC -- Technology)
CORRECTING and REPLACING Big Screen Entertainment Group Lands Big Fish Games Aug 28, 2007
--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Second graph, second sentence of release should read: Big Fish's impressive lineup includes such popular games as "Battleship," the wildly successful "Diner Dash" series published by PlayFirst, as well as games based on well known entertainment properties, such as "Sponge Bob Square Pants" and "The Wild Thornberrys" (sted Big Fish's impressive lineup includes such popular games as "Battleship," the wildly successful "Diner Dash" series, as well as games based on well known... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
ER Rush Review Aug 20, 2007
Like Diner Dash and Cake Mania before it, I-play's is a constant balancing act, testing you cool until the whole game comes crashing down on top of you ... If you've played Diner Dash, the formula should be familiar to you, but here's the general rub for ER Rush: You must maintain an escalating series of busy emergency rooms by diagnosing and treating patients ... Closing CommentsER Rush follows right in the footsteps of Diner Dash and Cake Mania, but the hospital spin keeps it from being... (IGN Wireless Games)
Have fun as a planner in 'Wedding Dash' Aug 10, 2007
Fans of the hit game series, Diner Dash, have been anxiously waiting to swap brooms for grooms in PlayFirst's first official offshoot game, Wedding Dash ... Instead of taking care of restaurant customers in Diner Dash, you must now pamper guests at a wedding reception, including seating them where they want (or don't want), serving them food (appetizers, entrees and cake), bringing song requests to the DJ and taking care of "incidents" such as breaking up a catfight between two bridesmaids,... (USA Today -- Tech)
Sally's Salon casual game released Aug 9, 2007
Sally s Salon is another variation on the Diner Dash style of casual game, in which you have to help the busy proprietor of a beauty salon as she helps everyone from little old ladies to punk rockers. You make your way through ten distinct salon locations as you wash, dye, cut and style hair across more than 50 levels. (MacCentral)
Diner Dash 2 Coming Aug 8, 2007
August 7, 2007 - Glu is bringing the sequel to the highly successful Diner Dash to mobile ... Diner Dash 2 will mark the third game is the agreement between Glu and casual game house PlayFirst ... "Thanks to the work that PlayFirst has done on the PC and our success with the original mobile version of the game, the Diner Dash franchise is one of the biggest hits in the casual gaming industry," said Glu's Jill Braff, senior vice president of global publishing in a statement about the impending... (IGN Wireless Games)
Diner Dash takes a twist with Wedding Dash Aug 1, 2007
Casual game publisher PlayFirst on Tuesday announced the release of , a new game based on the enormously popular Diner Dash franchise ... And just when things seem like they re totally out of control, Flo the heroine of previous Diner Dash games can come to the rescue. (MacCentral)
Playing casually Jul 20, 2007
The most popular casual games in 2006 according to the Casual Games Association report were Mystery Case Files, Diner Dash, Cake Mania, Bejeweled and Slingo. As major publishers increasingly invade the casual game space, it will be interesting to see whether smaller companies are muscled out. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Ratatouille Review Jun 30, 2007
THQ Wireless obviously ordered to be modeled in the vein of Diner Dash and Cake Mania, which is a smart move considering not only how these were both excellent casual games that roped in millions of players, but also that the formula applies perfectly to a kitchen-themed movie ... Closing CommentsFor a riff on the Diner Dash-Cake Mania formula, Ratatouille is actually a fairly entertaining little game ... But on a whole, if you like Diner Dash or Cake Mania and think the Pixar movie looks like... (IGN Wireless Games)
Billion-dollar casual game market lures big industry players Jun 27, 2007
Welch said it took his three-year-old company's sole focus on casual gaming to build its most popular title, "Diner Dash," into a hit with 200 million players (albeit most of them non-paying). "We have too much expertise," he said. (MSNBC -- Business)
Glu Going Blackberry Jun 25, 2007
Glu's line-up of mobile games, including Transformers, Monopoly, and Diner Dash, will come to Blackberry users via Bplay. Bplay is an "entertainment solution" that facilitates the arrival of games and other digital entertainments for Blackberry users. (IGN Wireless Games)
Kinder, not killer, video games Jun 17, 2007
In the past, the casual market has largely been dominated by companies like PlayFirst, publisher of "Diner Dash," and PopCap, which manufactures simple and addictive games like its popular "Bejeweled" puzzles. But in recent weeks, the bigger manufacturers have started to demonstrate their interest, including Skype, which announced that it would soon launch a casual games portal that would permit game developers to reach their two million registered users. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Poker Pop Review Jun 12, 2007
June 11, 2007 - The casual landscape has yielded a crop of successful games ported to mobile, including Bejeweled, Zuma, and Diner Dash. Add to the line-up, as Glu Mobile's edition of the PlayFirst-published casual is an extremely playable game that smartly combines elements of poker and mahjong. (IGN Wireless Games)
Handhelds can cure kids' summertime blues Jun 12, 2007
Diner Dash: Sizzle & Serve. Based on the hit PC game, these pocket-size versions for the Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable (rated E, $29. (USA Today -- Tech)
S.F. gamemaker woos women players, employees May 28, 2007
Seventy-person PlayFirst, which publishes the hit restaurant game "Diner Dash," has drawn many women to its core production team, the creative engine of the company. Half of its 24 or so producers are female, a 30 percent increase from last year, and a notable phenomenon in a male-dominated industry. (San Francisco Business Times, CA)
Another boring lunch break at the office? May 13, 2007
One of my favorites is Diner Dash, in which you play a cute anime girl who is a waitress. You have to take care of the patrons that come in and sit them properly and in a timely manner. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Rock City Empire Review May 5, 2007
If you can handle Diner Dash and Cake Mania, though, you can handle the three clubs. Rock City is a natural evolution for the Empire series and I'm extremely curious to see where Digital Chocolate goes next with the franchise. (IGN Wireless Games)
Cake Mania Review Mar 24, 2007
Like Diner Dash, the goal is to manage time and resources under increasingly difficult conditions ... It's not the most elegant solution, but with so many stations and customer spots in the bakery, there was no way to assign everything to a number key like Diner Dash ... Closing CommentsCake Mania is a casual PC-to-mobile success story, just like Diner Dash. (IGN Wireless Games)
Zapak Devotes Section to Women Mar 15, 2007
Check out games like 'Diner Dash 2' and 'Plantasia', I had a lot of fun playing them. Women are an important target audience today, and I am glad Zapak. (Techtree.com)
GDC: PlayFirst finds success with Mac gamers Mar 9, 2007
The company, best known for its Diner Dash series of games, earlier this week introduced the , a new tool for game developers to build Mac and PC-compatible games ... Diner Dash should be showing up real soon. (MacCentral)
Nintendo's 2nd Quarter Release Dates Mar 8, 2007
April 22 Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl Nintendo May Pirates of the Caribbean 3 Buena Vista May Dragon Ball Z: Harukanaru Densetsu Atari May Pony Friends Eidos May Diner Dash Eidos May Touch the Dead Eidos June 4 Nintendo DS browser Nintendo June 4 Planet Puzzle League Nintendo June 11 Touchmaster DS Midway June Zendoku Eidos Spring Naruto Ninja Council 3 Tomy Spring Time Ace Konami Spring Death Jr. and the Science Fair of Doom Konami Q2 Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon Natsume Summer... (Gaming Age Online)
Upcoming Pokemon Battle Revolution Named as First Wi-Fi Game for Wii Mar 8, 2007
The list of games for April, May and June includes the following: Wii April 9 Super Paper Mario Nintendo April Prince of Persia Rival Swords Ubisoft April Bust-A-Move Bash Majesco April Bioncle Heroes Eidos May 15 Mortal Kombat: Armageddon Midway May 29 Mario Party 8 Nintendo May Tamagotchi Party On Namco Bandai May Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean Disney Interactive at World's End May Escape from Bug Island Eidos May Spider-Man The Movie 3 Activision June 11 Big Brain Academy Nintendo June 25... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Cheap, Easy, Fun--And Profitable Mar 7, 2007
They just want them to spend time playing games like "Tetris," "Diner Dash" or "Solitaire" on their computers, TV and cellphone screens. And maybe watch a couple of ads while they do it. (Forbes -- Technology)
Google game for Adscape Media at $23 mn Feb 18, 2007
He said Google s ad expertise may be a better fit for websites and game makers that focus on quick, skill-based casual games like Solitaire, Bejeweled or Diner Dash than for more complex online and console games that bring in the lion s share of the $30-billion industry s revenue. Through Microsoft, Massive has an in with the maker of the Xbox 360 video game console. (India Times)
2K Announces Ghost Rider Video Game Is Now Available Feb 14, 2007
The company is currently developing games across all platforms including Silent Hill Origins and Diner Dash and is working with major worldwide publishers such as Microsoft, Konami, THQ, Buena Vista Games and Eidos. Climax is headquartered in Portsmouth, England. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Newsbriefs: Super Mario World Hits Wii, NA Gets The Witcher Feb 6, 2007
07] Two veterans of the casual gamer market, including one of the Diner Dash creators, have announced the launch of a new studio in New York named Rebel Monkey, with the aim of creating next generation casual games for the mass market. td. (Gamasutra)
Pair launching game Web sites Jan 28, 2007
It will also be thefirst Asian-based site with an on-demand service for popular games such as PlayFirst's "Diner Dash" series and Atari's "Never Winter Nights 2.". SPE Networks Asia says it is dedicated to delivering "360-degree entertainment" and to keep viewers connected beyond TV.. (Variety)
SCi revenue to hit 70 million Jan 25, 2007
SCi will also be moving further into the casual-games market, with titles coming in 2007 including Diner Dash, Zendoku, and PC versions of "classic" casual games such as Luxor: Amun Rising, Jewel Quest, and Cubis 2. The statement added that, as in previous years, the group expected the majority of revenue and product releases to come in the second half of the year. (GameSpot)
Mobile Hopefuls Jan 8, 2007
Yes, mobile gamers already have Diner Dash, but two games from the same rich vein isn't going to kill anybody ... Much like taking orders and delivering food in Diner Dash, ambitious cake makers must listen to whiny customers demand cakes with special shapes and specific frosting. (IGN Wireless Games)
Egg Vs. Chicken Review Jan 8, 2007
The puzzle play didn't grab me right away like Oasis or Diner Dash. If you like the PC game, this is a good mobile replica. (IGN Wireless Games)
