Gamezebo Archives - June 2011

The nefarious treasure thief Jacques has kidnapped another damsel, and it's up to you to stop his evil plans before she is sacrified during a ritual under the full moon! Anarchy Enterprises' latest hidden object game, Hide & Secret 4: The Lost World, is coming soon and we have some screenshots to share with you behind the cut.

Thanks to leaderboards and achievements, social gaming networks like Apple Game Center thrive on the idea of competition. But there’s always been one problem – it’s a spirit of competition you’ve had to seek out on your own. The challenges never came directly to you. Now OpenFeint is looking to change all of that with that announcement of their latest addition, GameFeed.

With all of the big players of last year’s social gaming boom on the iPhone being snapped up by larger companies this year (ngmoco was acquired by DeNA, OpenFeint was acquired by GREE), it was only a matter of time until somebody turned their attentions towards Scoreloop. According to a recent post on their developer blog, Blackberry creator RIM is that somebody.

It may be time for all the other Facebook developers to go home (barring, perhaps, PopCap). In terms of concept, Pac-Man S is such a perfect Facebook game that it’s hard to imagine how anything else could compete. Pac-Man S uses a Bejeweled Blitz-like format where you attempt to get the highest score possible in two minutes of play. As your score increases, the game becomes faster-paced and more challenging. Players can opt to spend a virtual currency called points on up to two power-ups from a group of four to customize the experience.

Empires & Allies is a Facebook game developed by Zynga that lets you defend your island and fight back against the invading Evil Dark Alliance. Gamezebo’s Empires & Allies strategy guide and walkthrough will provide you with a quick start guide, tips and tricks, hints and cheats to help you defeat your opponents.

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em – eh Nintendo? Since teasing the follow-up to their popular Wii home video game console earlier this year, the internet has been abuzz with speculation about what Nintendo’s next home console would be. Today the big secret was revealed, and it wasn’t what anybody was expecting – not by a long shot.

Empires & Allies is CityVille with guns. At least, on the surface. It takes the formula that has made CityVille the biggest game to ever grace Facebook, but builds off of it, adding engaging, approachable combat and a narrative that creates a true sense of progression. This leads to an overall better game, and one where you’re doing more than simply building up the biggest island nation possible: you’re also defending it from evil.

Residents of a remote German castle are being terrorized by a mysterious creature, and it's up to Nancy to crack the case, but is Nancy in danger of becoming the monster's next victim? Nancy Drew: The Captive Curse, the 24th Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure from Her Interactive, is launching on June 28 and fans can preorder a Special Edition version of the game with bonus content until June 15. Keep reading to check out the game's official trailer.

Jessica (of Jessica's Cupcake Cafe fame) is looking to expand her cupcake empire by dishing out tasty doggie treats in Jessica's Bow Wow Bistro, an upcoming time management game listed as Coming Soon on GameHouse.com.

What pops into your mind when you think of fairies? Tinkerbell? Giggling, winged girls with wands? Sparkle-sneezing wood nymphs sitting on toadstools? In FairyCubes, 3-D puzzles are added to the list of all things pixie.

Feed Me Oil for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch is an amazing game of movement where you utilize the laws of physics to complete puzzles. The soil is starving for oil and it is up to you to figure out how to feed it using various elements such as gravity, wind, magnets, and more. Figure out these puzzles as fast as you can and compete with your friends. Don’t worry if you get stuck, help is available if you need it. Gamezebo’s quick start strategy guide will provide you with detailed images, tips, information, and hints on how to play your best game.

As the man behind SimCity, The Sims, and Spore, Will Wright is best known for gigantic projects that are years in the making. But as he revealed at E3 this week, his next title may not be nearly that far in the future. More surprising than that though, is what the game is going to be about. Wright is looking to explore the world of gift economies, drawing inspiration from legendary sci-fi author Bruce Sterling’s short story Maneki Neko.

Spelling words correctly should never be a life or death situation – unless, of course, you’re playing hangman. But what fun is hangman if you can’t play it with a friend? The fine folks at Zynga clearly feel the same way we do on the subject, which is why they’re gearing up to roll out Hanging With Friends, a multiplayer hangman game from the makers of Words With Friends.

The Sims is the best selling PC series of all time, and now it's coming to Facebook. Few details have been revealed but Electronic Arts did announce The Sims Social at its recent keynote press conference at E3 2011 in Los Angeles.

Building a skyscraper is hard work. But building a game about building a skyscraper? That’s even harder. Since we first previewed Tiny Tower back in March, the team at Nimblebit have been hard at work getting the game prepped for launch. Now that they’re a little further along, they’ve been so kind as to prepare a trailer to whet your appetite even further.

MyConservationPark is, like Ecotopia, a Facebook game with real-world ambitions. It's a game that attempts to raise awareness of issues of sustainability as you clean up and maintain a wildlife conservation. A percentage of in-game purchases are even donated to various charities. Unfortunately, in its current state there's just not enough gameplay to keep you engaged for long.

While most of the gaming world is getting lost in an endless series of press conferences at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles, we iOS faithful have spent our day gobbling up every tidbit of information to spill out of Apple’s Worldwide Develpoer Conference in San Fransisco. Now that their keynote address has come to a close, we were saddened to see that there was little impress on the gaming front. Still, that doesn’t mean changes aren’t coming.

For those of us who grew up around the arcade scene of the early nineties, Konami beat’em ups will always hold a special place in our hearts. While more competitive gamers would line up around the block to get their turn on the latest Street Fighter variation, those of us who were looking for a more co-operative experience turned our heads towards games like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Simpsons. But if you were a comic book nerd and an arcade rat like I was, there was no way you could say no to X-Men.

Welcome to the Tearstone walkthrough on Gamezebo. Tearstone is an adventure game played on the PC created by DragonsEye Studio. This walkthrough includes tips and tricks, helpful hints and a strategy guide on how to complete Tearstone.

In Velocispider you control the title character, who’s a half-velociraptor half-spider.... um, thing.... that has a cannon mounted on it’s back. You’ll shoot mechanical whales and flying octopodes as they try to swoop down and steal your eggs. If any of that makes sense to you, you’ll probably want to see a doctor. There’s a good chance you’re having some sort of fever dream.