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Every so often, an intriguing little indie game comes along to remind us why we ever fell in love with video games in the first place. Whether it’s because of a unique and different presentation, or simply just the way it invites you to play, games like these are what make it so much fun to work at Gamezebo every morning. Well it looks like Mushroom 11 might just be one of those games. And it’s not just me saying this either: the mesmerizing new game was even awarded “The Best of Indie Press Day” for 2013.

Sometimes you play a game so simple yet so effective that it leaves you wondering why no one has done it before. Meet Super Puzzle Platformer Deluxe, a sort of Tetris match-3 and platformer mash-up that gives as good as it gets. With twinges of Spelunky in there too, this fast-paced, quick-thinking blaster will kill you every few minutes, and yet you'll keep coming back for more. The soundtrack is sublime, the controls are spot-on, and the challenge is very, very real. What I'm saying is, you're going to love this game.

The world of light and bright fairy tales has been turned dark and sinister as characters like Jack (from Jack and the Beanstalk) have been trapped inside books in Grimm Reaper: Hidden Tales. Once you’ve downloaded this free-to-play world onto your computer, though, all of the charm behind the game’s setup is quickly shoved aside in favor of all-too-frequent pay walls and repetitive gameplay.

Greedy Grub is a grub simulation game from PIXOWL INC, wherein you are tasked with maintaining a forest’s energy by crafting, planning, and harvesting trees that grow in the forest. You’ll need all of the help you can get to keep the forest as happy as can be, but with Gamezebo’s quick start guide you’ll have all of the tips, tricks, and walkthroughs you’ll need to stay ahead of the game.

Too fast, too Facebook! In celebration of the recent theatrical release of Fast & Furious 6, the hugely popular automotive Facebook game Car Town by Cie Games will be sporting some fresh new car designs taken straight from the adrenaline-filled racing film franchise.

Longtime readers of this site may know I have a problem with the current explosion of social strategy games. By the time you've played your twentieth variation of the same formula, they've all started to blur together into a confused jumble of housing, farms, and amicable quest givers. I think I've forgotten the names of most of them. And that's why I found myself looking so forward to Godsrule: War of Mortals. For one, it was published by Sega, whose name still evokes awesomeness despite the many years since the glory days of Sonic the Hedgehog; and for another, it promised to deliver a brand of social strategy combat worth paying attention to. Here, I'd hoped, was a social strategy game worthy of the gods.

Hi! Welcome to the 2^nd entry of our Tengami developer diary. My name is Phil Tossell and I am one of the co-creators of Tengami. Since our first diary entry we have had a bit of good news, as we finally became authorized Wii U developers. This means that in addition to iOS, PC and Mac, Tengami will also make its way to the Wii U in early 2014.

Hyper Breaker Turbo is one of the most exciting brick-breaking arcade games out there. Actually, that sentence sounds a bit bland. This game deserves better. Hyper Breaker Turbo is Breakout injected with a proprietary blend of nitrous and the blood of a rampaging bull. It's fast, it's challenging, it's filled with awesome power-ups, and even though it's filled with failures and successes, it never gets frustrating.

As far as match-three games go, there's plenty of room for change and innovation; unfortunately, few developers seem inclined to use it. The new deep-sea-themed match-three game Jewel Legends: Atlantis falls firmly into that un-expansive camp. Although a prime example of established mechanics, the game does nothing whatsoever to advance the match-three genre.

Every day is a great day to live in Canada, but today is an especially great day to live in Canada, because Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar, the latest installment in the popular RPG series, has made its way onto the Canadian App Store this morning. In case you’ve never played an Ultima game before, you can take our word that this is one mobile release you’re going to want to watch out for.

It often seems like Cartoon Network’s Regular Show can do no wrong. Whether it’s in the episodes themselves, the spin-off mobile applications, or the countless strings of unique and quotable dialogue, the wild misadventures of the 23-year-old slackers Mordecai and Rigby have established a massive cult following of both kids and adults alike. So why should a full-fledged mobile game based on the much beloved series be any different? 

You’ve heard of the Very Hungry Caterpillar, but have you ever met Greedy Grub? Both insects are capable of eating half the world for their personal growth, but whereas the Caterpillar is restricted to the pages of his storybook, Grub exists in Greedy Grub, an adorable iOS world-building game. Greedy Grub tries some new ideas and most of them pan out, though you can still expect plenty of good old-fashioned waiting around thanks to its freemium model.

Using games as a teaching tool can be a powerful avenue of education. Gaming's increased role in educating both children and adults is becoming a major part of the industry. So when a new game comes around that aims to expand word power and teach fun facts, there's a ton of potential to be unlocked. Then, there's Wordshift Academy, a word game filled with facts and trivia, but plagued with a serious case of boring.

When TRANSFORMERS: LEGENDS, the addictive card battling take on the successful franchise was released earlier this year, it was clear that developer DeNA Co. had something special on their hands. Luckily, this potential for great things was not lost on Hasbro, Inc., the owner of the TRANSFORMERS name and brand. DeNA Co. has announced this morning a continued partnership with Hasbro, Inc. to develop two new mobile games based on the company’s popular intellectual properties G.I. JOE and Dungeons & Dragons: Wizards of the West Coast.

Family Tales: The Sisters is a fairly typical hidden object adventure game that doesn’t break the mold in any respect. Its storyline follows a woman’s journey to rescue her twin sister, with said journey taking players through the real world and alternate dimensions via both magical and scientific means. While there’s some good to be found in Family Tales: The Sisters, every positive is offset by one (or more) problems.

In the fall of 2012 I released a game for the iPad called Finger Tied. Finger Tied is a puzzle game where you have to move your fingers to fill in shapes on the screen while keeping up to four fingers touching the screen at all times. It's kind of like Twister for your fingers.

I don’t know about you, but I tend to like a nice dose of action with my weekly helping of new mobile games. And judging from the look of tonight’s new iOS releases, mobile gamers will have nothing short of all that fast-paced arcade bliss to keep us up at night. 

While most people would equate video games with fun, it’s important to see video games for what they truly are: a medium. Like a book, a film, or a painting, video games provide the framework through which a creator can engage their audience. “Fun” doesn’t always have to factor into it.

We cover plenty of new games here at Gamezebo every week, but the number of games we’ve already covered that show up on new platforms?  It’s staggering.  This Wednesday and every Wednesday, Gamezebo is rounding up the games that aren’t quite new, but might be new to you depending on your platform of choice.  And who doesn't love new(ish) games?

In the beginning, there was a vast wasteland of interactive nothingness.  And so Man created the video game.  Man then got tired of playing space shooters and sword-wielding heroes, so he created the god game.  One in-game, all-powerful planet spirit got tired of running everything, so he created the Reus: the eponymous Giant designed to do the bidding of the planet through manual labor and you, the player whose not-so-distant ancestor invented the video game.