Virtual Villagers 3: The Secret City

Posted May 29, 2008 @ 10:08 am - Filed under: New Releases

Virtual Villagers 3: The Secret CityVirtual Villagers 3: The Secret City is a brand new chapter in the best-selling Virtual Villagers franchise. This latest offering has a larger map, all-new puzzles and mysteries, and introduces innovative new features such as a Tribal Chief and Real-Time Weather.

The award-winning Virtual Villagers series, including Virtual Villagers: A New Home and Virtual Villagers 2: The Lost Children) is one of the most popular and best-selling casual games in recent years, remaining on top-ten lists for months at a time. The games are a unique blend of simulation, adventure, and virtual pet. The game is set on the fictitious island of Isola, where a lost tribe has landed on its shores. As the village grows and prospers, the villagers become curious about their mysterious island home and the secrets it holds.

Your villagers will need to become farmers, builders, scientists, healers and parents, and you will help guide the villagers past starvation and danger into a thriving prosperity, through exploration of the island and careful management of resources.

Find new sources of food to nourish your villagers and help them rebuild the remains of this long lost city. Who lived here before? Where have they gone? What is the secret of Isola? Lead your tribe to the answers in Virtual Villagers 3: The Secret City!

More information about Virtual Villagers 3: The Secret City
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Play Diner Dash For Cash

Posted February 7, 2008 @ 5:40 pm - Filed under: Online Games

WorldWinner, the leading provider of online game competitions, has launched new cash competitions in the wildly popular online casual game, Diner Dash, and its sequels Diner Dash 2: Restaurant Rescue, Diner Dash: Flo on the Go, and Diner Dash: Hometown Hero.

In the cash competition version of Diner Dash, players compete against one another in helping Flo manage a crowd of customers by taking orders, serving drinks and food, clearing dishes and collecting tips. Players earn points by serving customers successfully within the five minute time limit. Additional scoring components, such as the ability to choose one of four Power-Up abilities to best suit a player’s style and the inclusion of six different customer types with unique personalities, have been incorporated. The skill-based game features 15 different restaurant themes as featured in the retail version of Diner Dash.

Developed by the award-winning independent studio Gamelab, Diner Dash follows former stock broker Flo as she quits her corporate job to operate her own roadside diner, growing it into a five-star restaurant. The top-selling Diner Dash game debuted as a downloadable title in 2004 and is now one of the most popular casual games available online.

“Diner Dash has such a strong following in the casual games community, making it an excellent addition to our WorldWinner portfolio,” said Peter Blacklow, president of WorldWinner. “Based on the past success of Diner Dash, we expect the WorldWinner cash competition versions to be a hit for fans of Flo, old and new.”

“Since Diner Dash first launched in 2004, it has been a number one hit across major online game portals, mobile and retail, and a popular handheld title, proving that casual gamers love to play their favorite game on many platforms,” said Rich Roberts, vice president of sales and business development, PlayFirst. “Introducing cash competitions for Diner Dash with WorldWinner will give fans a new way to experience the game, while introducing the WorldWinner community to one of the most popular casual game properties.”

Play Diner Dash for Cash!

Casual Games for the Holidays

Posted December 16, 2007 @ 11:45 am - Filed under: New Releases

The elves of the casual game industry have been busy, and a number of holiday-themed games have been released just in time to celebrate the upcoming Christmas season:

Santa's Super Friends Santa’s Super Friends

Mr. Stink stole all the toys, right before Christmas! Santa’s Super Friends need your help to make enough toys to save the magical holiday!
Holly: A Christmas Tale Holly: A Christmas Tale

Grab a cup of cocoa, put on some Yuletide music and play this wonderful hidden object game, guaranteed to fill you with the spirit of the season!
Jewel Match Winter Wonderland Jewel Match Winter Wonderland

Jewel Match Winter Wonderland will have you aligning jewels and smashing ice boxes as you relax with the sounds of the season!
Season Match Season Match

Season Match takes you through a magical kingdom, where you’ll meet three beautiful Princesses of the Seasons and one wicked Winter Queen!
Christmasville Christmasville

Santa Claus is missing! Help the amazing creatures of Christmasville discover the truth in this hilarious seek and find adventure!
Holiday Gift Holiday Gift

Dip into the festive season as you relax and celebrate your match-3 imagination with Holiday Gift!
Elf Bowling 7 1/7: The Last Insult Elf Bowling 7 1/7: The Last Insult

Who’s your daddy? Lace up your bowling shoes and polish your bowling ball for the wackiest Christmas adventure yet!
Best Gift Best Gift

Get a gift - the Best Gift! Dip into a world of holiday delights, gifts, treasures, and adventures in this unbelievable puzzler!
Gift Shop Gift Shop

Your Gift Shop is open for business and just in time for the holidays! Sell fabulous gifts to busy holiday shoppers in this jolly puzzler!
Holiday Bonus Holiday Bonus

Line up the seasonal shapes against stunning snowscape backgrounds as you chill out with this cool puzzle game! Don’t miss the festive fun!
Holiday Express Holiday Express

Arrange the colorful gifts to fill up the Holiday Express train and reveal festive photos in this great holiday-themed game!
Believe In Santa Believe In Santa

Help Sandy save her granny’s toy shop, one holiday gift at a time! The pursuit of the perfect present has never been so much fun!
Family Feud Holiday Edition Family Feud Holiday Edition
It is the Family Feud Holiday Edition! Match your wits against the average score, or the entire family!
Loco Christmas Edition Loco Christmas Edition
Load Santa’s trains with Christmas presents!
Santa Claus Save Christmas Santa Claus Save Christmas
Help Santa Clause to Save Christmas!
Snowball Bustout Snowball Bustout
Santa Claus Needs Your Help!
Bubble Xmas Bubble Xmas
Spread Xmas cheer with new Xmas Bubbles! Shoot three or more of the same color to blow them up! Have Christmas fun, today!

Luxor 3

Posted November 3, 2007 @ 10:04 pm - Filed under: New Releases

Luxor 3Luxor 3 is the latest incarnation in the best-selling Luxor series of casual games from developer MumboJumbo.

Following in the wake of Luxor, Luxor 2, and Luxor: Amun Rising, Luxor 3 takes you on an ethereal journey as you battle the power-hungry god of Chaos to free the essences of other Egyptian gods before they reach the pyramid at the end of their path.

Like the earlier games, the basic object of the game is to shoot your ball into a moving chain of balls to create three-in-a-row of the same color, at which point they’ll be removed from the board. Along with this familiar gameplay, Luxor 3 adds a number of new game modes, as well a some very devious bonus puzzle levels.

In Luxor 3, you’ll need to utilize reflectors to make nearly impossible matches, make three matches in a row and release supernatural power-ups, and collect Ankh coins to use for purchasing important upgrades. Plus collect canopic jars to unlock bonus levels and hit elusive Golden Scarabs to discover hidden treasures!

In addition to the new game modes and additional power-ups, the biggest change to the game is the remarkably detailed graphics, with parts of the game backgrounds being animated and seemingly alive with movement. Another new feature is the “store”, where you can use the coins you collect during the game to purchase increasingly-powerful power-ups.

Key features of the new game include:

  • Original music, enhanced animation and even more spectacular effects
  • Seven challenging gameplay modes including five never before seen
  • Over 140 nail-biting levels with new features including branching paths and reflectors
  • Upgradable power-ups plus exciting ball sets and shooters to unlock
  • Utilize reflectors to make matches that were otherwise impossible

More information about Luxor 3
Download Luxor 3 (45.78MB)
Purchase Luxor 3 ($19.99)

Little Shop of Treasures 2

Posted October 13, 2007 @ 8:54 am - Filed under: New Releases

Little Shop of Treasures 2Little Shop of Treasures 2 is the highly-anticipated sequel to the popular Little Shop of Treasures, which has been downloaded more than one million times to date.

This all-new seek-and-find adventure game is once again set in the charming town of Huntington, and your task is to help shoppers find the items they need and earn enough money to restore and re-open your Uncle Roy’s gas station.

You will be searching for well-hidden items in a wide variety of Huntington’s shops, including the Import Shop, the hardware store, the beach shop, a craft fair, an estate sale, and an electronics store. The intricately detailed graphics and wide variety of items make the game infinitely fascinating.

It’s tempting just to stop and look at all the strange doodads, gadgets, gizmos, and thingamajigs lining every possible surface of these over-stuffed building, but watch out, because the clock is ticking! If you’re unable to find an item, don’t get frustrated, just click the “hint” button - it won’t show you where the item is at, but it will show you what it looks like, and knowing that is often half the battle.

Little Shop of Treasures 2 offers hours of eye-popping fun for players of all ages!

More information about Little Shop of Treasures 2
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