Gamezebo Archives - December 2010

Welcome to the Doodle Devil walkthrough on Gamezebo. Doodle Devil is the sequel to Doodle God, a puzzle game for the iPhone and iPod Touch developed by JoyBits Ltd. Thanks to a recent update, 50 new elements have been added to the game. Our guide has been updated with solutions for all of them. This walkthrough includes tips and tricks, helpful hints, and a complete solution list for how to complete Doodle Devil.

Whether you enjoyed spending time with paper dolls or rooting through your mother’s hand-me-downs, playing dress up has become a rite of passage for every little girl. The developers at Total Eclipse clued into this, and have tried to recreate the experience on your iPhone using the star of their popular PC time management game Fashion Boutique – and they’ve provided Maya with a wardrobe so big it would make Barbie blush.

King.com’s Miner Speed takes the match-three gameplay and one minute time limit from Bejeweled Blitz and offers a few slight variations on this popular formula. However, these slight variations are just that – slight, and don’t do enough to make the game stand apart from its extremely popular competition.

GameGround officially launched in beta last month and announced a venture capital round of $5.3 million in funding with a promise to “fundamentally revolutionize the way players engage with their game lives.” We spoke with Doug Vance, Vice President of Marketing at GameGround, to discuss what is GameGround, what is this revolution in gaming, and how casual games may be changing in the future.

Indie developer Digital Eel has started the show and tell for its upcoming game Data Jammers: FastForward by releasing two teaser trailers, which you can view behind the cut.

A preview for a new hidden object game called Dream Mysteries: Case of the Red Fox has appeared on GameHouse.com, and it sounds pretty interesting. According to details posted on the site, you'll play a psychiatrist with the unique ability to "dream dive" into patients' minds to discover the causes of their warped mental states.

A beach resort on an idyllic island is probably a dreamlike vision of many people, especially around this time of the year. However, Club Paradise proves that working there can be quite the opposite of peace and relaxation. The player follows Summer (a quite original name considering the theme) who just starts an internship at a resort that has been wrecked by a hurricane.

With Santa’s arrival only days away, you’d have to be a nut to do anything that could put you on the naughty list – but sometimes being naughty is so much fun! Take Doodle Devil for instance. The developers have just released the game’s first update, which they’re dubbing “Episode Two: Warfare.”

Geared 2! is an puzzle game from Bryan Mitchell for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Building on the foundation of the original Geared game, Geared 2! challenges your mind and reflexes like never before. Thanks to Gamezebo’s quick start guide, you’ll be solving puzzles like mad.

Free games are all around us, but they may not be as easy to find as you’d think. We help you sort through the App Store to find the latest price drops and limited time offers so that you won’t have to spend a penny. Today’s free games a color-matching arcade-style gem, a tilt-based strategy title, a hand-drawn platformer, and more!

After a 28 year wait, fans of Disney’s sci-fi classic were treated to a sequel this past weekend as TRON Legacy opened in theatres everywhere. But while the movie was brilliant fun, Disney’s attempt to cash in with an iPhone game is anything but.

The holidays are a great excuse for a sale (take a look at the 68 games for 99 cents from EA to see what we mean), and now Gameloft is jumping in on the action, offering 21 iOS games for only 99 cents. Hurry though! This sale is only on until December 22nd.

It’s hard to know what to expect from a game called I Love Strawberries. But you definitely won’t expect this. What at first appears to be a cute and charming puzzle game, quickly reveals itself to be deceptively difficult and surprisingly violent. It’s fun and challenging and will make you want to throw your phone across the room. All for the love of strawberries.

If you didn’t manage to get enough swingin’ action in Hook Champ and Super QuickHook, Rocketcat Games has just launched the third game in its rope-and-hook series, Hook Worlds. Unlike its predecessors, Hook Worlds takes a break from careful and detailed stages to dabble in the endless running genre.

In a blast from the past, and the future, Telltale’s Back to the Future: The Game will debut this Wednesday, December 22. The five-part season’s first episode “It’s About Time!” will be available for PC and Mac platforms. Fans can still get the critically acclaimed bonus Puzzle Agent game free with their pre-order from http://www.backtothefuturegame.com, and Telltale also donates $1 to the Michael J. Fox Parkinson’s Foundation with each purchase up through the launch. The series will debut on the PlayStation Network and iPad platforms in early 2011.

If building your own kingdom were easy enough, everybody would be clearing land for their castles, rallying squads of chivalrous bodyguards and bossing around serfs from sun-up to sun-down. Unfortunately, building your own domain from scratch is no overnight task, as you’ll find out in Westward Kingdoms.

Geared 2! takes the addictive elements found in the first title and expands on the premise by adding new challenges, 60 new levels and prettier graphics.

The longtime gamer in me feels like I know what to expect from certain genres of games. If I’m told something is a first person shooter, or strategy or puzzle game, I can usually get pretty darn close to the conventions the designers used when building their game. The same goes for match-3 games - I’ve played and loved enough to have some assumptions about what I’ll find. Dreamsdwell Stories 2 - Undiscovered Islands actually threw a curveball my way that was more than welcome!

Aralon: Sword and Shadow is being described by many as The Elder Scrolls on the iPhone, and that's not an inaccurate description. On one hand, this is easily the biggest game world to ever appear on the system, providing an immersive and fun play experience. On the other, the only way to actually enjoy yourself is if you can put up with the technical irritations that you’ll definitely encounter during play.

If solving the Earth's pollution problems is as difficult as greenTech+ makes out, then we're all doomed. Through a combination of hurricanes and cleansing factories, nasty clouds of ozone-destroying gas must be removed from the air, keeping the atmosphere nice and breathable.