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Legend of Grimrock Review (PC)

The modern role-playing game is big, expansive, has great graphics and a large cast of characters offering interesting choices, and by the end of the narrative, the protagonist seems to evolve towards a state where he is the undisputed ruler of the game world.In Legend of Grimrock, the characters are barely sketched,...

25 April 2012
09:51 GMT

Solving Puzzles Improves Spatial Skills

University of Chicago investigators recently conducted a new investigation on children, which demonstrated that solving puzzles has the ability to improve both spatial skills and performances in mathematics. The connection between these phenomena intrigued researchers. They say that puzzles apparently play a huge r...

17 February 2012
04:29 GMT

Silent Hill: Downpour Has Dual Difficulties for Puzzles and Combat

The Silent Hill series returns this year with Downpour and one of the developers working on the game says that dual difficulty sliders for combat and puzzles have been re-introduced in order to allow players to focus on the part of the game that they like best.Speaking to Joystiq, Tomm Hulett, who is the producer wor...

11 January 2012
15:01 GMT

Minimum Number of Starting Clues for Sudoku Is 17

Anecdotally, many Sudoku players know that the smallest possible number of starting clues an unsolved puzzle can contain at first is 17. In a new investigation, scientists took a closer look at this conjecture, in order to certify whether it was true or not. After calculating all possible solution grids, one by one, ...

7 January 2012
04:58 GMT

DARPA Challenge Shows How Safe Your Shredded Documents Really Are

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants to see exactly how vulnerable top secret information can be. In order to complete this task, they organized a contest in which the owner of the device that will be able to recompose a shredded message will take home a $50,000 prize. It might seems like anot...

28 October 2011
03:19 GMT

Maximum Number of Moves Needed to Solve Rubik's Cube Established

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, say that they were able to determine the mathematical connection between the number of squares in a Rubik's Cube and the maximum number of moves a player must perform in order to solve the mechanical puzzle. Last year, more than three ...

29 June 2011
04:55 GMT

Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time

Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time is a fitting end (if it is really the end, hard to know when it comes to such a long running and interesting series) to the adventures of the very unusual duo of a Lombax and a sentient robot.The first installment in the series arrived in November 2002 and just seven years...

17 November 2009
05:02 GMT

A New Midnight Mystery Tale

As you may already know, Edgar Allan Poe was one of the founders of several literacy genres, such as science fiction and detective mysteries. Although he had a relatively short life, having died in his fortieth year, he was the first man who lived off the financial earnings of his writings. Midnight Mysteries: The ...

31 July 2009
02:02 GMT

Original Silent Hill Re-Imagined for the Nintendo Wii

The original Silent Hill was quite an innovative title, basically establishing the genre of survival horror videogames. It played on the emotions of the gamers and those of the main characters while offering a game that was scary, tough and exhilarating to complete.Now, it seems that Konami is set to revive the title...

2 April 2009
18:41 GMT

Four-Player Co-op for LEGO Indiana Jones

LucasArts declares that it plans to launch LEGO Indiana Jones on all platforms on June 3rd, 2008 in the USA. Following the success of LEGO Star Wars and LEGO Star Wars: The Original Trilogy, LucasArts wants players to experience the adventures of the 3 Indiana Jones movies all rolled into one big game.The atmosphere ...

20 February 2008
13:06 GMT

Actionloop Action Replay Codes (DS)

Actionloop is simple yet addictive. There is a game for everyone with four exciting modes to test players' strategy skills. Single player Challenge Mode requires players to clear as many gemstones as possible before they reach the end of the track. The more stones cleared, the higher the level reached and the fa...

28 November 2007
09:47 GMT

Polarium Unlockables (DS)

Prepare for brain-busting puzzles and fast-twitch action as you draw lines to flip black and white tiles and make patterns and puzzles disappear! As patterns relentlessly fall from the top screen, draw lines to reverse their polarity and make them disappear. The more you clear, the faster they come... A hundred sing...

6 November 2007
05:10 GMT


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