Fliplife is a browser games company, that runs a game by the same name. You are able to “flip” your life and pursue a career in countless industries and jobs. You may start as a dishwasher, but if you’re good and do your work properly, you will be climbing the ladder quickly, maybe ending up as the big boss of a well known company in Fliplife.

KaiserGames was already involved in Fliplifes early steps as one of the seed investors, buying the whole package only two years later. Besides KaiserGames, Fliplife had different investors such as RapidShare Entertainment, the German High-Tech Gründerfonds and Mountain Super Angel from Switzerland, as well as the NRW.BANK.

“We saw the potential of Fliplife quite early. So acquiring the company is a reasonable step for us.”, says Ilker Aydin, CEO and Founder of KaiserGames. And Tobias Hartmann, one of the three founders of Fliplife, is equally enthusiastic:”With KaiserGames, we found the perfect partner to push Fliplife to the next level. They are one of the big players in the casual games business and we are happy, that KaiserGames will write the next part of the Fliplife story.”

Honestly, we really can’t imagine why Spil should be trying to sell GirlsgoGames. It’s their biggest portal according to Alexa and the GirlsgoGames-brand is well known across lots of countries, being highly successful in Germany and the UK and being pretty popular in the Netherlands as well, for example. Unfortunately no price is being displayed, so we don’t know, what Spil Games is hoping for – IF they really want to get rid of the domain. Which again is hard to believe. We’ll keep an eye on it.

Meanwhile check the Alexa statistics for GirlsgoGames.com and GirlsgoGames.de above.

UPDATE: We talked to Spil Games just this morning. And as we already assumed, they are definitely not selling GirlsgoGames. Why Sedo has been listing the domain as “negotiable” – we don’t have a clue. But by now this problem is fixed and we’re happy to know that Spil Games is keeping their really valuable brand.

The portal had been closed in mid-2010 and according to Alexa.com re-opened in September 2011, where traffic numbers are rising again. By February 2012, A10.com is close to returning to its former glory. In 2010, we assumed, that the site reached around 100.000 daily visits. As the site is growing steadily since September, it is likely to reach those old traffic numbers by the middle of 2012 again.

We weren’t able to get more information on why they re-launched the portal and why they chose a completely different design compared to the old site. Actually, the current design is one you find pretty often among newer gaming portals these days. It is pretty sleek, with a clear layout and only a bunch of games. We like it.

If there is any news about Spilgames intention with their updated portal, we will let you know.

With the new innovation showcase, the event displayed twelve games in an “art-gallery” style exhibition. These games have been selected from a whole bunch of games and are considered the most innovative titles for Web and iOS devices. Visitors could play and developers could find inspiration for creating their own games with new and innovative ideas. Among the featured games were titles from Spilgames, Ninja Kiwi and Adult Swim.

As every year, a significant and important part of the conference were the lectures held by impressive speakers from all over the industry. Among them was Riccardo Zacconi, CEO of King.com as well as Richard Bartle, Professor of Computer Game Design at the Univerity of Essex, UK. So visitors had the chance to experience every point of view within the games industry. Additional lectures were held by executives from Microsoft, Adobe, Newzoo or Digital Chocolate.

One of the most interesting facts, though, is that the Casual Games Association – organizer of the Casual Connect events – will launch an additional event to the conferences in Hamburg, Seattle and Ukraine. Casual Connect Asia will be held in Singapore from 22 – 24 May 2012 for the first time. Another indicator of a steadily growing industry.

As we already reported, Spilgames is currently expanding into the turkish market. In Hamburg, we talked about Spils plans for the future with Stefan Beckmann, Country Manager Germany. Watch Stefan talk about HTML 5 and the importance of flash game portals in our video interview at the Casual Connect Conference 2012 in Hamburg:

With a new title in the pipeline, called Lagoonia, they are planning to address typical casual gamers and core gamers as well. As we have heard from many people at the Casual Connect, the borders between casual and core are going to blur even more in the future. So Lagoonia seems to be a perfect new title for Innogames. Find out, what else we talked about with Volker Dressel, CMO of Innogames, in our video interview below.

Of course, King.com also released games on facebook, like the – overall and especially visually – extremely polished game Bubble Witch Saga. Riccardo’s knowledge of the casual games industry is more than impressive. This is why we took a little different approach to the interview situation this time. As a man, who has a lot to say, we thought it might be interesting to let Riccardo do the talking an see, what his thoughts about the past, the present and the future of casual gaming are.

There is nothing left to say, so enjoy Mr. King.com himself in our video interview in Hamburg at the annual Casual Connect Conference 2012:

While Achim as a natural entrepreneur runs gamecity:Hamburg honorary, his full time job is his own public relations company Quinke Networks. Here he makes sure, gaming companies get the public attention they deserve. Currently Achim is helping Spilgames in all parts concerning public relations in Germany, for example. Watch our very interesting video interview below:

It was interesting to hear, that flash game portals still generate a huge part of the income for Bigpoint, while for Youdagames, as CEO Horst Streck told us, the importance of flash games portals was decreasing.

Thanks a lot for the interview, Philip.

Watch last years video interview with Bigpoint HERE

Horst talked with us about the necessity (or redundancy) of flash games portals and how YoudaGames will continue to offer interesting new concepts and games to their users in the future. One of them is Governor of Poker Social, which takes the well known and incredibly successfull GoP-brand to the next level. As he told us after the interview in a little chat, Governor or Poker 1 and 2 both still are the most successful games in their portfolio and have been for years now. With the new social version, YoudaGames added tons of great features to an already famous game.

We want to thank Horst for his precious time and for being a natural talent in the spotlight!

Watch last years video interview with Youdagames HERE