14 DAY TRIAL // One of the biggest casual game producers, MumboJumbo, has revealed the full lineup of games to be released by the end of 2008 and, as expected, we get the chance to see a lot of zany titles together with some game concepts we already know (too well, unfortunately). However, keeping in mind that people never seem to get bored of these casual titles, no matter how much they resemble one another, there's no need to cry out loud: even the financial figures of the company for the first quarter of 2008 were bigger than last year. Would you stop producing them if you were them?
Following their Q1 success of Mortimer Beckett and the Secrets of Spooky Manor, Luxor Pharaoh's Challenge for the Wii, Blokus, Polar Games 2 and Build-a-lot, five different genres will be covered by MumboJumbo by the end of the year. One of these will be the match-making genre we'll get in Little Farm, a game that sounds more difficult than it really is: players have to click on a patch of the field and drag out the mouse to form a rectangle that has four patches of the same color in each corner. But don't worry - by the end of the month, the game will be available for download and you'll get the chance to see exactly what it is about.
July will bring casual fans a game called "Discovery" - a classic "find the hidden object" game that will exhaust your eyes in the funniest possible way. And, since it's July, we'll get a Santa-based game in... Hawaii. Elf Bowling Hawaiian Vacation is the full name and, as it suggests, the record-breaking elves will play bowling in Hawaii. Who would've thought, right? Oh, and another thing: by September, the same Elves will be back at the Pole, since MumboJumbo also plans to release Elf Bowling 8 1/8 just in time for the Holidays.
The last game to be released by the end of the year is called Little Home on the Hill and it is a settler-like title that, as usual, will be ready just in time for the holiday season.