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!

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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.”

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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

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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!

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BigPoint provides games that feature awesome 3D graphics and sound, and you can play these games right from your web browser, with no complicated installation, downloads, or CD-ROMs required. Bigpoint focuses on high-quality, complex and immersive games, including strategy, action, and sport titles. These titles offer a rich gaming experience that compare very favorably with traditional retail and console games. They’re that good.

And they’re all completely free! Since all the games are free to play, they allow users of all ages and income levels to participate in high-quality gaming fun. Bigpoint’s business model is based on the sale of virtual game items and in-game advertising, and the optional purchases within the games opens the door to useful extra features, and offer the chance of reaching the desired goal within each game more quickly.

Bigpoint not only allows you to play console-quality games against real opponents from all over the world, but also provides access to an active and enthusiastic community of players. Bigpoint is one of the largest online gaming communities anywhere, and I suggest you check out their large collection of titles including the pirate-themed game SeaFight, the science fiction strategy games Space Invasion and Parsec, the space shooter Dark Orbit, the mech fighter XBlaster, Mafia 1930, a strategy game set in the time of Prohibition, the urban street game The Pimps, and sports titles ActionLeague, Soccer Manager, and Hockey Manager.

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Gamers will be reacquainted with the game’s heroine Emily and will guide her through five all-new themed restaurants on her quest to rescue the family business. Use your earnings to purchase decorations, sure to make your customers smile. Emily’s friends and family are on hand to help, but it’s going to take your serving savvy to get Uncle Antonio back on track.

Featuring two game modes, all-new customers, and hours of family fun, Delicious 2 Deluxe is just the thing to satisfy your craving for fun!

Here’s what Gamezebo had to say about the game in their review:

“Well-polished and unquestionably entertaining, Delicious 2 Deluxe offers five nicely varied establishments to manage, while its levels are increasingly difficult to conquer. Though it’s not hugely different in essence from the original, there are enough nuances here to make the whole experience fresh and fun, while the visuals have also received a thorough buffing.”

Also be sure to check out Gamezebo’s Delicious 2 Deluxe Tips & Tricks article for a huge number of pointers to help you play yout way through this challenging and endearing game.

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The Richochet series of breakout-style arcade games from Reflexive Entertainment have become classics of the genre, featuring graphics and game play that quickly made the series a favorite in offices and homes across the world. The games in this series have included Ricochet Xtreme, Ricochet Lost Worlds, and Ricochet Lost Worlds: Recharged.

Now there a new edition in this popular series, Ricochet Infinity, which re-invents the genre and will forever change the way you think about brick-busting games.

Ricochet Infinity introduces a new way to play the game by putting the player in direct control of the ball. Instead of waiting for the ball to return to the paddle, with ‘Recall’ players can at any time, change the ball’s direction, giving full control during every second of the game, and not just when the ball hits the paddle.

“Once you play Ricochet with the new Recall ability, there is no going back,” said Ion Hardie, Lead Level Designer on Ricochet Infinity. “It enhances the game play so much you’ll wonder how you played a brick-busting game without it.”

Like previous Ricochet games, Ricochet Infinity has been created with community in mind, enabling gamers to create and share levels with other players all over the world. Unlike previous Ricochet games, players can now download, rate and tag new levels without ever leaving the game. Unique to Ricochet Infinity, this new ability to directly download levels from within the game makes it easier than ever before for players to trade levels. Players will be able to watch and see the levels they create climb through the ranks of the most downloaded levels, and perhaps become the next online sensation.

“Ricochet Infinity has an endless supply of new levels being created by a very diverse group of imaginative level designers from around the world,” said James C. Smith, lead developer and creator of Ricochet. “The flexibility of the Infinity scripting engine enables very unique types of levels to be created. With hundreds of new level being released each month, Ricochet Infinity’s ability to sort, rate and tag levels becomes an invaluable tool to find the levels you want to play.”

Reflexive Entertainment hasn’t contented itself with creating what is essentially the world’s first Web 2.0 game and making it more fun and playable than any other game in its class by adding direct ball control. Ricochet Infinity also features a whole new array of devastating power-ups to go along with all the old favorites, new stunning graphics that await you as you travel to unknown alien worlds, a techno-pumped soundtrack, over 200 included levels from the world’s best level designers, the addition of new vector art and scripting tools to what was already the world’s best level editor, trophies, achievements, ball skins, player character development, 24 different ships each with special abilities, Mouse Party™ for same machine competitive and cooperative multiplayer play, and Ricochet’s new mascot, an alien companion to keep you company.

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Gemsweeper features unique gameplay, easy to learn rules, brilliant graphics and sound, two different game modes and 225 fun levels. It does not require fast reflexes and is even easy for kids to learn, but requires enough strategy to keep you hooked for hours. This makes Gemsweeper a must have for every puzzle game fan.

Gemsweeper is set in an ancient Mayan temple city, and your goal is to fully restore all of the glorious monuments of old. The puzzles in this thrilling game are made of 5×5 up to 30×30 tiles that are all faced down. Your job is to uncover gems which are hidden behind some of the tiles and to break tiles which are cursed. Numerical clues above and to the left of the board tell you where the hidden gems are. Use these clues wisely, and you will be able to solve the puzzles without having to guess.

Gemsweeper will put your mind to work, but the rules are very easy to learn. Thanks to the interactive tutorial, you’ll be digging for gems in no time. And if you should ever get stuck, Professor McGuffog will put you right back on track with various useful hints. There are many different ways to solve the game, and the difficulty level ranges from very easy to highly challenging puzzles which makes Gemsweeper interesting for both beginner and experienced players.

You can test Gemsweeper now for free by downloading the trial version, or buy the full version to enjoy this exciting puzzle adventure right now. There’s absolutely no risk - there is a 60-day unconditional money-back guarantee, so there’s absolutely no risk.

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In every country you visit (including Greece, Troy, Phoenicia, Babylon, Egypt, Carthage and Rome), your job is to assemble a precious artifact, one of the seven powers of the patron god of the Atlanteans, Poseidon. The game offers 77 captivating levels of addictive gameplay with quite impressive power-ups and handy bonuses.

Once you complete the journey you do not only get to see Atlantis rise but also receive a well-deserved reward - a complimentary animated Atlantis 3D Screensaver that will remind you of your glorious achievements.

The Rise of Atlantis was developed by Terminal Studio, which also created such popular games as Atlantis Quest and Brickshooter Egypt. Terminal Studio is an independent game development company that specializes in fun PC games for all the family as well as innovative high-quality 3D screensavers.

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