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Hotel Dusk: Room 215 was released by Nintendo and Cing back in 2007 on the DS and, with the quality it offered, the game earned itself a sequel. The title will be ready on January 14 in Japan for ¥4,800, but there is no date set yet for an American release. The sequel, Last Window, will pick the story one year la... |
10 December 2009
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Shadow of Destiny first saw the light of day in March 2001 on the PlayStation 2, but, after almost nine years of peaceful slumber, it seems like Konami plans to unearth the game and once again tell its tale. It has just announced that it is currently working on porting the adventure title to the PlayStation Portable.... |
23 October 2009
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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
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Ever since the game was announced in 2006, Rockstar hasn't worked very much on Team Bondi's L.A. Noire. In three years no real information has emerged regarding the game and most of the people for whom the game stood out when it was announced have forgotten this title. And even if they haven't, they�... |
30 September 2009
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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
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Each hidden object game begins with a small story that throws you in the middle of an adventure where you will barely have time to think about anything but the list of objects that you need to find. Mystery Masterpiece: The Moonstone begins with a British incursion in one of the colonies and that is where the Moonsto... |
8 August 2009
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DinerTown is a quiet and peaceful community where people go around living their everyday lives without any major events or having to worry about not trusting their fellow townspeople. But every game has a story behind it and this one, DinerTown Detective Agency, is about Bernie, who decides that he has spent too much... |
16 July 2009
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There are certainly a lot of video games arriving almost every week, but there is a specific season where the “flood” of high-quality titles is overwhelming for many average video game fans: the winter holiday season. As we've seen, there is a huge demand in the months before the end of the year, an... |
14 July 2009
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Margrave Manor 2: The Lost Ship is a new and captivating hidden object game that comes as a breath of fresh air in the world of puzzle games combined with mystery and adventure. Just as the title implies, you can clearly figure out where the action takes place and what kind of adventure you are about to embark on. A... |
13 July 2009
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Whenever the movie industry releases a blockbuster, the gaming industry automatically picks up on it and manages to create a new product that will not only entertain, but also keep the franchise going. We all know the success that the comic book movies had and how the gaming industry managed to pull off more than suc... |
1 June 2009
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The basking shark is the second-largest shark in the world, being able to grow up to 33 feet (about ten meters) in length. It travels a wide area of the world's oceans, with its very wide mouth opening almost never closed. It filters 500,000 gallons of water each hour, and extracts from it its main source of foo... |
8 May 2009
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Alan Wake is in danger of becoming vapor ware, one of those titles that have been announced and talked about but which never make it to the market. Initially it was unveiled in 2005 and there has been talk of the game arriving on gamers' desks for at least the last two years. Remedy, which is developing the game... |
31 March 2009
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Recently, a new a sequel to the Curse of the Pharaoh game has been released under the name of Napoleon's Secret. If you have already tried the first game, The Quest for Nefertiti, you will be surprised to find that the gameplay remains the same, though the scenery has been changed. The storyline behind Napoleon... |
23 March 2009
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A couple found dead in a car and no apparent cause of death are the main “headlines” of a new website, set up as part of her doctoral project by Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology professor Rebecca Young. This isn't just any killing, but one rooted in mystery and dating back from the Cold War. I... |
19 March 2009
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Some temples and museums in Japan boast the ownership of several of the most rare relics in the world, namely mummies of demons, imp, raiju, Tengu, Kappa, and other mythical creatures. In fact, some institutions in the northern parts of the country even host “living mummies” of human origin, as in people ... |
10 March 2009
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Detective games aren't very popular with gamers, but that doesn't stop developers from creating new titles that get you to solve murder cases. Be it based on Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot, a good detective game always puts you stranded in a remote location and with a mysterious case on your hands. The u... |
14 October 2008
02:37 GMT |
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This is not the first time (and, hopefully, it's not the last time, either) I'm writing about a casual game that wants nothing else but to innovate the genre. Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble! is its name and you have probably heard about it already: either in one of the previous Softpedia coverages o... |
29 July 2008
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You've probably heard about Unsolved Crimes before - an exciting project developed exclusively for the little Nintendo DS. What you weren't told in the first place is the fact that developers Empire Interactive consider their title a "new type of game" for the handheld. And, in order to prove us they'r... |
29 July 2008
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We all love to play Sherlock Holmes every now and then, to solve mysteries after we have done our best to gather clues and interrogate all sorts of people. The good thing is that game developers know we are keen on this type of games and they're trying to bring us the best possible titles. This is the situation ... |
23 July 2008
02:46 GMT |
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Ever since we are born, we love to investigate things: from our toes, when we're little, to the meaning of life when we're older and ready to win the Nobel Prize. We always search for something, we dig for mysteries, we love these challenges! Knowing that, Aksys Games has decided to give us a few mysteries ... |
11 June 2008
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Unlike your usual casual game development company, Codeminion has a different approach, since it tries to create games that are fun to play both for people in their mid-thirties, as well as their hardcore children. And this is great, since I was getting kind of tired to consider casual games repetitive, boring, child... |
17 April 2008
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Dead Mountaineer's Hotel is a "shocking, sci-fi" adventure title announced by Akella back in October 2004. Now, the game is finally close to reach the gold status and be distributed to everybody who loves quality adventures and mystery solving. North America and the Central and Northen Europe will receive this g... |
28 March 2008
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Are you tired of all those 3-in-a-row games that come out like mushrooms after the rain? Or maybe you just can't stand anymore those restaurant management sims-like games... What do you think of seek-and-find mystery games?... I guess you have thrown up by now...In this week's agenda we have another puzzle.... |
14 September 2007
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The week is about to end, so I'm here to review a new game. In the past week we didn't have so many good games, but still, there was something...Coming from the SpinTop Games laboratories, Mystery P.I.: The Lottery Ticket is a "solve-the-case-game". The story revolves around a granny who lost her winning lo... |
3 August 2007
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Mystery is what some of us live for. I will not get psychological or philosophical on you, but curiosity is the most precious thing that humans have... the need that drives them to know more and automatically to learn more...Anyway, going back to our problem, for this week's game, the issue is still "mystery". W... |
22 June 2007
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As the week approaches its end, we start to feel the need for a break. Basically, the week-end is the time when we all "come alive". But what happens if the weather messes up some plans?Well, beside reading books, watching TV and some other stuff that can occupy one's time, there is this "mini-game playing" that... |
15 June 2007
09:41 GMT |
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Remember the story of the USB thumbdrives hidden in restrooms during the Nine Inch Nails promo tour, which contained un-released (at that time) tracks for the inquisitive fans? Remember how people who found such memory sticks loaded with music have posted the tracks online in a freshly-created community and how RIAA ... |
19 April 2007
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