Each workday morning I will be bringing you the latest events, articles and releases in the independent and mod development communities, as well as any mainstream news that seems pertinent. Most of this news can also be found daily on ModCenter.

Industry Articles:

• Casual Games, Broad Topics - In its newest blog entire casualindie.com discusses techniques to appeal to not-so-typical audiences when striving to create a successful casual title.  Since casual titles are commonly played by demographics not represented in the "gaming community," special considerations have to be made when designing the titles for them to be successful.
• How Can A Game Be Subversive? - EALA's Borut Pfeifer examines different games and contemplates if a game can truly provide a subversive message or not.
  

Game Releases

• MEET IN (Indie)
• The Sewer Goblet - The Wu-Tang Clan and the Wu-Tang Baby (Indie)
• in the woods (Indie)

Tool Releases

• gDEBugger v4.1 (Shader IDE)
  
• DAZ Hexagon v2.5 (Plug-in for FX Composer)
  

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