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Big names from Big Fish, MTV, Alawar, and many other key casual games firms have signed up to speak at next month's Casual Connect Kyiv.

Get your diaries out - the Casual Games Association has confirmed the dates to this and next year's Casual Connect events in Europe.

CASUAL CONNECT 08: Uclick has launched a new site designed to sell mobile titles like Garfield and Ninja Turtles, developed by Uclick as well as games from other developers.

CASUAL CONNECT 08: In the second day’s closing keynote of this week’s Casual Connect conference in Seattle, PopCap confirmed that after successful spells on PC, Mac and iPod Peggle will be relased on the Nintendo DS later this year, with a mobile version due too.

CASUAL CONNECT 08: Nickelodeon’s games boss Dave Williams has predicted a big change in the way casual games work on the web, transformed by social and media elements, in his keynote talk opening the second day of this week’s Casual Connect event in Seattle.

CASUAL CONNECT 08: In the second keynote at this week’s Casual Connect event in Seattle, Digital Chocolate head Trip Hawkins took to the stage and predicted that a new kind of web-savvy consumer was going to revolutionise the games industry – the Omni Media Gamer.

CASUAL CONNECT 08: Big Fish has publically released official details on its research project with data monitor NPD Group used for CEO Paul Thelen's keynote at Casual Connect today.

CASUAL CONNECT 08: In a data-packed keynote opening this week’s Casual Connect conference in Seattle, Big Fish Games chief Paul Thelen has told the rest of the industry that ‘one size doesn’t fit all’ when it comes to making and releasing casual games.

CASUAL CONNECT ’08: Online game competitions site Worldwinner.com has signed an agreement with Sony Pictures Consumer Products to create skill-based online games of US quiz shows Wheel Of Fortune and Jeopardy!

CASUAL CONNECT 08: Pogo is bringing a casual games version of classic family board game Operation to its portal in August – with a retail version following in September.

CASUAL CONNECT ’08:Oberon Media is celebrating a trio of massive new as deals for its casual games – not least a new partnership with Sky TV.

While execs from the core games industry are today jetting back home after a perhaps lackluster showing at the E3 expo in Los Angeles, a number of other execs are turning their attentions to next week's Casual Connect event in Seattle.

Casual Games editorial site Gamezebo and the Casual Games Association have announced that the second annual Zeebys Awards Show will be held at Casual Connect Seattle on July 24th, 2008.

The CEOs of some of casual gaming's biggest names, including Big Fish, WildTangent, PopCap and Digital Chocolate, are lining up to speak at this July's Casual Connect Seattle 2008 event.

Hundreds of key decision makers from the world of casual games have descended on Amsterdam today for the three-day Casual Connect Europe West conference. Running from today until Friday, February 8th the Western Europe event has seen record numbers attend - according to organiser the Casuals Games Association total attendees for its West and Eastern Europe have been over 1,340 - a 56 per cent hike on last year.

Taking place from February 6th to 8th, the event promises to provide further exploration of the casual game sector, with speakers from Google, Microsoft Casual Games group, and the likes of PlayFirst and PopCap providing details on how to succeed in the fast growing category.

Activity is building for this year's Casual Games Association event, Casual Connect, with the organisers announcing that they expect 1,200 attendees to the conference.