From Escape the Museum 1 and 2 to The Mirror Mysteriesand Escape the Lost Kingdom, Gogii Games has gotten a lot of mileage out of the old "family gets separated by some sort of catastrophe and must be reunited by a heroic Mom (or occasionally Dad or the kids)" theme. Combine it this time with a cruise ship disaster of Titanic proportions and you have Gogii's upcoming hidden object adventure The Ship.
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I you have apes, lizards and wolves crawling up your office building, it can mean only one thing... Tagged as: babylonsticks, comic, funny
PopCap has just launched a special Game of the Year edition of its smash hit tower defense game Plants vs Zombies for PC and Mac. According to PopCap, the special edition is "packed with all the zombie-zapping fun of the original game" plus updated and expanded with 20 new achievements and the interactive Zombatar that lets you create your very own zombie then see it come to "life" in the game. You can grab the PvZ GotY Edition from PopCap for $19.95.
PlayFirst has just announced that Wedding Dash 4-Ever, the next game in PlayFirst's Wedding Dash series of time management games, will launch on Aug. 10. Players will help guide Quinn through another hectic season of wedding planning while putting up with interference from Quinn's meddling mother.
One of my favorite aspects of gaming on the iPhone is the crazy variety of games available. I don't think I really knew what to expect when I was told I’d be reviewing a “rhythm fighting game.” I think I was picturing a fighting game with a decent soundtrack. What I ended up getting was something a lot more fulfilling and something I hope to see more of down the line on the iPhone.
While gamers around the world were tickled pink to do battle with a Thriller-era Michael Jackson in Plants vs Zombies, the family of the late great King of Pop is less than “thrilled” with the parody. Due to an objection from the estate of the deceased, the dancing zombie we’ve come to know and love has been removed from the iPhone version of the game, with other versions to follow.
Dawn of the Dragons is a role playing game that provides far more than your standard gaming experience. There are so many different areas to explore and challenges to complete, that time can easily slip away while playing this game.
→ Jay is Games | 29 Jul 2010 | 2:30pm GMT Platform: Flash —
Borrowing heavily off of MoneySeize, Towards the Light is a skill testing, spike hopping, bullet dodging platform game. What sets this platform jumper apart from the rest is the nicely implemented ghost mode that, combined with nice level design, allows the player to explore conventional platforming in new and unique ways. Tagged as: browser, classic, flash, free, game, highdifficulty, macwinlinux, platform, rating-g, retro, skill
The mysterious Captain Nemo, long thought dead, has gotten in touch with a former member of his crew to ask for help in locating the submarine, The Nautilus, but while time seems to have stood still for Nemo, it has marched steadily on for his shipmate, who is now a grandfather. More specifically, he's your grandfather, and being the daring adventuress you are, you agree to help Nemo on his behalf.
“There’s more than one way to skin a cat,” so the saying goes. There’s also more than one way to match up coloured gems, which may not sound as snappy, but it’s a lot less nasty. Joining such well-worn methods as forming lines and arranging clusters, Flipstones has you building large triangles and hexagons from smaller coloured triangles.