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Incoming 2012: The Last Guardian

What we know: The Last Guardian is a third-person title that combines action sequences with puzzles and is developed by the same team that has worked on Shadow of the Colossus and Ico. The game will allow players to control a young boy, which seems to be the central archetype for Team Ico, and will watch him as he ...

7 February 2012
18:31 GMT

Pentagon Plans to Create Video Games to Crowd Test Weapon Systems

A solicitation from the Department of Defense of the United States suggests that the institution plans to contract companies to create a number of video games that can be used to refine the way a variety of weapons systems work and eliminate errors and bugs from them.The document coming from the Pentagon says that th...

20 January 2012
10:46 GMT

Rochard PC Review

In the last half of 2011 we were flooded with an array of high quality download games, ranging from truly stunning ones, like Bastion, to impressive titles like Orcs Must Die. Now, after a bit of a delay, it’s time we took a look at Recoil Games’ Rochard, a sidescrolling platformer with various physics-ba...

13 January 2012
09:21 GMT

Blocks that Matter 1.0.0.8 Review

Blocks that Matter is a puzzle adventure game that is built for people with lots of free time and have a huge brain that remains largely unused during the day. Gamers need to be relaxed and on top of their game, in oder to play Blocks that Matter. It's not a really hard game, bu the nature of the puzzles means ...

5 December 2011
03:01 GMT

Download Angry Birds Seasons 2.1.0 - 25 New Levels

Rovio has announced a new update to Angry Birds Seasons, the company’s season-centric version of the immensely popular, pig-popping puzzler.It appears that there is a new angry bird to be had in this update, as well as “25 new festive levels featuring gingerbread cookies, bells, twinkling lights, and cand...

2 December 2011
09:50 GMT

Assassin's Creed: Revelations Doesn't Have Puzzles, Relies on Animus Exploration

The upcoming Assassin's Creed: Revelations video game will drop the puzzle sequences from previous games before it, like Assassin's Creed 2 and Brotherhood, instead opting to intrigue players by letting them guide Desmond, the modern-day protagonist, through the dark recesses of the Animus.Revelations promi...

7 October 2011
03:55 GMT

2D Boy Offers World of Goo to iPad, Mac Gamers 80% Off This Weekend

World of Goo, the ingenious puzzle game created by an indie game studio based in San Francisco, California, is on sale this weekend on the iTunes App Store and Mac App Store.Ron Carmel and Kyle Gabler, the the two 2D Boys, have decided to let another wave of gamers download and enjoy their intriguing puzzler on iPad ...

30 September 2011
03:59 GMT

Sprinkle Puzzle Game Now Available on Android

A new puzzle game is available today for Android users interested in appealing graphics on the small screen of their handsets, namely Sprinkle. Coming from Mediocre, the new game is fun and addictive at the same time. A puzzle game in which users will need to move obstacles, fight fires and more with the use of a ...

26 August 2011
09:15 GMT

Squishy Tank Unlockables (DS)

Squishy Tank is a video game developed and published by Japanese company Natsume, and released on April 6, 2010, in North America, and shortly after that in other territories like Europe or Japan, the first in a new series made by Natsume exclusively for the Nintendo DS handheld platform. Squishy Tank, like its na...

23 June 2011
15:21 GMT

Portal 2 Sold More than 3 Million Copies

Gabe Newell, the current managing director at Valve, has said that Portal 2 has managed to sell more than 3 million copies since launch and is on track to get better overall sales figures that the first title in the series.Newell was talking at the Games for Change conference at the Games for Learning Institute and h...

23 June 2011
04:52 GMT

Bejeweled 3 Coming to PS3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo DS This Year

PopCap Games will bring its massively successful Bejeweled 3 puzzle game to a variety of consoles at the end of the year, after releasing it for the PC and Mac platforms at the end of last year.PopCap made a huge amount of money with its casual titles, and Bejeweled 3, the newest installment in the popular jewel-matc...

22 June 2011
14:21 GMT

Wordless Chell Makes Portal 2 More Engaging, Funnier

With Portal 2 being one of the most successful Valve video game releases when it comes to critical reception, the developers who worked on it are now talking a little more about the choices they have made for the game and the reasons behind them. A lot of people wondered whether Valve was making game main characte...

9 May 2011
13:41 GMT

Portal 2 Review

Being the successor to the critically acclaimed Portal can't be easy, and Valve really had a tough job ahead of it when it formally announced Portal 2 last year. The new title was set to continue the story of Chell, the heroine from the original game, and introduce brand new mechanics as well as a cooperative mu...

22 April 2011
09:35 GMT

Steam Gets SILK, Prepares for Portal 2 Launch

Steam has continued its quick paced campaign of Steam improvement, saying that it has now implemented a new audio codec, called SILK, which was initially created for use in Voice over Internet Protocol services like Skype. The SILK protocol will be use in all titles on Steam that are using the voice API integrated...

24 March 2011
10:43 GMT

Ads for Portal 2 Are Made In-House at Valve

Video game developer Valve has announced that all the commercials for the upcoming first-person puzzle game Portal 2 will be produced by an internal team at the company, mainly because its representatives have had a number of bad experiences when dealing with specialized advertising agencies. Doug Lombardi, who is...

18 March 2011
05:24 GMT

Portal 2 Will Make Players Care More About Chell

Portal 2 is nearing its launch date and the team at Valve that is working on the puzzle filled action game says that one of their aims for the sequel is to offer players more information about main character Chell and allow them to develop a better understanding of her. Speaking to Eurogamer, Erik Wolpaw, who is a...

15 March 2011
05:44 GMT

No Ninja-Like Skill Required to Play Portal 2

Portal 2 is the big confirmed Valve-made video game release for the year and, thinking of the success of the first game in the series, the company is working hard to make sure that the sequel manages to attract a wider audience, including players that are not very familiar and skilled when it comes to physics based p...

14 March 2011
03:38 GMT

Incoming 2011 - Portal 2

What we know Portal 2 is set to be one of the most innovative titles of the year, as Valve wants to once again amaze players through intricate mazes with simple, yet fiendishly complex solutions. The game will follow in the footsteps of the rather surprising Portal, a small title that was bundled with The Orang...

21 January 2011
06:45 GMT

GOTY 2010: Best Downloadable Game Runner Up - Chime

Downloadable games are becoming more and more important these days, as digital distribution outlets like Steam, Xbox Live, PlayStation Network or WiiWare/DSiWare are making it extremely easy to get rid of some of your disposable income on lightweight titles. Among this year's best, we had Chime, a music-based...

20 December 2010
06:35 GMT

Bejeweled 3

It’s been almost six years since the last Bejeweled and considering that it was a smashing hit during all this time, PopCap decided that it’s  time to raise the stakes even further with the new Bejeweled 3. Even World of Warcraft: Cataclysm has been specially rigged with a Bejeweled 3 mini-game, bot...

12 December 2010
12:01 GMT

Quick Look: Bejeweled 3

In the realm of casual games, PopCap's Bejeweled franchise is somewhat of an 800-pound gorilla, managing to attract millions upon millions of players with its multiple iterations, including Bejeweled 1 and 2, as well as Blitz or Twist, not to mention the Facebook versions of such titles.Now, PopCap released the ...

9 December 2010
05:00 GMT

Stacking Is Double Fine's Next Video Game

Developer Double Fine, best known for being led by Tim Schafer and for creating both Brutal Legend and Costume Quest, has announced that its next title will be called Stacking and will be based around Russian matryoshka dolls, allowing the gamer to use stacking mechanics to progress through the experience.The publish...

24 November 2010
13:41 GMT

Bejeweled 3 Arrives This December, Video and Screenshots Included

PopCap Games, one of the biggest casual gaming companies, has just revealed that it will launch Bejeweled 3, the latest iteration in the hugely popular match-3 puzzle game franchise. PopCap hit big when it officially launched the first Bejeweled title, offering a new and fresh take on puzzle games, and really send...

2 November 2010
04:32 GMT

Super Monkey Ball Coming to Nintendo 3DS

Seeing as how Nintendo revealed almost all of the details concerning its upcoming 3DS portable handheld device, Sega has also revealed that it will be bringing its popular Super Monkey Ball franchise to the 3D-enabled platform.The Nintendo 3DS is scheduled to appear in February in its native Japan, and will then hit ...

1 October 2010
02:22 GMT

Zendoku Unlockables III (DS)

Zendoku is puzzle video game that was developed by British company Zoonami and published by Eidos Interactive for the Nintendo DS and the PlayStation Portable video game consoles. The game was first released in Europe on the DS and PSP on April 20, 2007, and then arrived just for the DS in Australia, on May 11, an...

24 September 2010
08:44 GMT

Zendoku Unlockables II (DS)

Zendoku is puzzle video game that was developed by British company Zoonami and published by Eidos Interactive for the Nintendo DS and the PlayStation Portable video game consoles. The game was first released in Europe on the DS and PSP on April 20, 2007, and then arrived just for the DS in Australia, on May 11, an...

23 September 2010
08:49 GMT

Zendoku Unlockables (DS)

Zendoku is puzzle video game that was developed by British company Zoonami and published by Eidos Interactive for the Nintendo DS and the PlayStation Portable video game consoles.The game was first released in Europe on the DS and PSP on April 20, 2007, and then arrived just for the DS in Australia, on May 11, and No...

22 September 2010
16:41 GMT

Zubo Unlockables II (DS)

Zubo is a rhythm action video game which was developed by Electronic Arts'EA Bright Light Studios exclusively for the Nintendo DS portable console.The game was released first in Europe, on October 3, 2008, then in Australia, on October 21, in Japan on January 22, 2009 and, finally, in North America, on March 10,...

22 September 2010
08:00 GMT

Zoo Keeper Hints (DS)

Zoo Keeper started as an online puzzle video game developed by Robot Communications, but was soon ported by Success studio to the Nintendo DS and other platforms, including the Nintendo GameBoy Advance and the PlayStation 2. The title was published by Success in its native Japan, on October 31, 2003 for the Ninten...

22 September 2010
06:46 GMT

Zoo Keeper Unlockables (DS)

Zoo Keeper started as an online puzzle video game developed by Robot Communications, but was soon ported by Success studio to the Nintendo DS and other platforms, including the Nintendo GameBoy Advance and the PlayStation 2. The title was published by Success in its native Japan, on October 31, 2003 for the Ninten...

21 September 2010
14:41 GMT

World Riddles: Seven Wonders

Funny Bear Studios are back with a new casual puzzle game that follows the success of World Riddles: Animals, released last year. This time around they tried a different approach and decided to go with rediscovering the Seven Wonders of the World in a new, fun and very challenging griddles puzzle game. This reinve...

9 August 2010
07:11 GMT

Warner Bros Officially Announces Super Scribblenauts for Autumn

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has officially announced that 5th Cell Media is developing a new title, called Super Scribblenauts, set to arrive during the fall of this year. The platform of choice for the new title will be the Nintendo DS and Warner says that the new game will take all the innovative feature...

19 May 2010
13:31 GMT

Sony Officially Confirms LittleBigPlanet 2 for Winter 2010

Sony, as the publisher, and Media Molecule, as the developer, have confirmed that LittleBigPlanet 2 is under development and set to be launched exclusively on the PlayStation 3 at some point during the winter of this year. The announcement comes after extended speculation and leaks pointing to a game, which takes up ...

12 May 2010
05:46 GMT

God of War 3: Kratos' Anger Is My Anger

Kratos is a thoroughly unlikable character in God of War 3, even if the people at Sony Santa Monica try to pin a sensitive side on him at some point in the story. After all, this is a man who clearly threatens the entire underpinnings of his universe in order to get some sort of never ending revenge.Oddly, his burnin...

14 April 2010
18:21 GMT

Konami Announces SAW 2 for the Fall

Konami has announced that it plans to launch SAW 2 in the autumn of 2010 for the PlayStation 3 from Sony and the Xbox 360 from Microsoft. The publisher is saying that the game will take the world of Jigsaw to the next level, allowing players to explore more nightmare-like scenarios as they try to save the subjects of...

13 April 2010
02:57 GMT

SkyZone Unveils 2010 Top Games Offering

SkyZone Entertainment, Inc. unveiled on Monday the top mobile titles that it planned on releasing during the ongoing year, which include the Hole In The Wall, The Three Stooges: Knuckleheads and Jump the Shark. According to the company, the titles are set to become available for download via most major carriers in th...

23 February 2010
07:31 GMT

Grappling Hook

SpeedRunGames has really pulled a number on us by releasing Grappling Hook mostly because it's the type of game that will leave you wanting for more even after you complete all the 22 levels, unlocked by the full version. It's like the game was first thought of as a shooter, but, somewhere along the way, ...

18 February 2010
12:51 GMT

Scribblenauts Reaches 1 Million in Sales

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has announced that its Scribblenauts title for the Nintendo DS has managed to sell more than 1 million units worldwide. The game was created by 5th Cell and is based around the idea of allowing gamers to actually write down words on the touch screen of the DS in order to permit ...

4 February 2010
03:06 GMT

Action and Puzzle Games Help Problem Solving

It seems that playing puzzle or action videogames can actually influence the problem solving abilities of those who play them. So, next time they play something like Batman: Arkham Asylum or Puzzle Quest gamers should justify their actions by claiming to be preparing for some tough problem solving ahead. The shocking...

4 January 2010
15:01 GMT

Flipt Is a New Kind of Puzzle Platformer for iPhone

InstantAction, an online gaming innovator developing 3D, multiplayer, console-quality games, and Garage Games claim to have delivered the most engaging and exciting puzzle platformer for the iPhone to date. Flipt, as the game is called, has players racing to solve puzzles and blast their way around deadly traps to un...

4 December 2009
09:05 GMT

Silent Hill Puzzle Used to Plead for Insanity

Along the years, we've seen games do some pretty strange things to people. Some of them have pushed people to commit suicide, like EverQuest did for the user named Shawn Woolley, while others are blamed for countless acts of violence. Among the less serious ones, we can count the Japanese man that decided to mar...

2 December 2009
13:01 GMT

World of Goo Birthday Offer Brings in Mixed Results

When World of Goo celebrated its one-year anniversary, the developer decided to let gamers in on the fun by introducing a “Pay What You Want” scheme to the game. In essence, anyone could access the official site, download the game and pay any sum of money they thought it was worth. Ron Carmel, one of the ...

21 October 2009
13:21 GMT

Casanova’s Secret

When it comes to hidden object games, I’m sure that all of us are well aware of what these are all about. The general consensus is that, although there is not much to do, except use your keen sense of observation to find the right objects, there are times when the story is a lot more captivating than the game i...

20 October 2009
06:52 GMT

World of Goo Can Be Bought for 1 Cent

World of Goo was one of those games that proved just how successful a brain-tease could be. The game won at the Independent Games Festival a series of awards and received many other titles and praises from gaming critics. If you never got the chance to get your hands on the game, now is the best possible time. To cel...

14 October 2009
07:32 GMT

Little Big Planet Coming to the PSP

Release dates for this autumn were mostly set according to an accurate schedule, with games matching a decent proximity from one another, but some game publishers feel confident enough to make last-minute announcements and just go with the flow. One of these companies is Sony, which just posted through Mark Valledor ...

5 October 2009
02:44 GMT

Final Fantasy Marries Bejeweled, Gyromancer Is Born

Fans saw a mixture of Final Fantasy and Bejeweled when they dove inside Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords. And they liked what they saw. The game was developed by Infinite Interactive and published by D3 Publisher and was greatly rewarded by fans and critics. It even won MTV Networks' GameTrailers title of...

25 September 2009
11:01 GMT

A Dark Hidden Object World

Whenever we think about a hidden object game we associate it with lively colors and a cheerful environment that awaits our exploration. Most of the background stories for these games involve fairies, pixies, magical fantasy worlds and other lore elements that have been used for the sole purpose of stimulating your im...

25 September 2009
01:42 GMT

WiiWare Update, Puzzles for the Puzzled

Those who couldn't get enough of the “Incredible Machine” and have an addiction towards puzzles and any sort of mind games are in for a new treat. As long as they have a Wii. The latest member of the WiiWare, Nintendo's You, Me, and the Cubes, is a series of puzzle games in the casual market tha...

22 September 2009
05:11 GMT

Tetris Increases Brain Gray Matter

It seems that while a lot of the media is blaming videogames for all the evils of the modern society, from obesity to bad school results, some scientists are quietly working on showing the benefits that even the simplest of videogames can bestow upon the player.A recent study conducted by the Mind Research Network ha...

4 September 2009
16:26 GMT

Steal Princess Unlockables III (DS)

Steal Princess is a puzzle platformer game created by a partnership between Climax and Marvelous and that was published in North America by Atlus. The game was already released in Japan on July 28, 2008, and reached North American shores on May 19, 2009. It is scheduled to appear this September in all other territori...

28 August 2009
14:31 GMT


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