Gamezebo Archives - November 2011

Last week, when Adobe announced it was suspending further development on its mobile Flash plug-in, a lot of developers who work in Flash were left hanging. Nature abhors a vacuum, though, whether it's real or digital, and Sibblingz is already moving in to feel the gap.

On Nov. 22 you'll be able to return to the world of Pahelikawith Ironcode's Pahelika: Revelations. The game is now available for pre-order from the developer's site for $7.99 (half-price) until Nov. 21. We've also got a new video trailer to share with you behind the cut.

Templars! What is it with those guys, anyway? They're always getting up to no good. This time they're causing trouble for the good folks in a small town in southern France, including your brother and his wife, and they need your help to set things right! No points for originality in the setup, but Hallowed Legends: Templar manages to bring some exciting tricks to the table and be a lot of fun anyway.

Blue Tea Games took us behind the scenes ofDark Parables: Rise of the Snow Queen, the third hidden object adventure in the stunningDark Parablesseries. In this installment, you'll investigate reports of missing children said to have been snatched away by the fabled Snow Queen.

Let’s get something out of the way right up front: The Oregon Trail: American Settler is a cookie cutter copy of Zynga’s Frontierville. Now that we’ve acknowledged that, there are a few other things we should acknowledge too. Like the fact that the game was developed by Gameloft, one of the few companies that can somehow simultaneously clone a game and yet make it better. Or the fact that by adding The Oregon Trail license, they’ve managed to steer an existing franchise into a sensible new direction.

Anuman Interactive, the French publisher that purchased Syberiadeveloper Microïds in 2009, has launched a new video game label called Microïds - Games for All in a bid to target a wider audience while cementing its status as a mass-market publisher and main player in the adventure games market. The new label will include games such as the upcoming casual adventure XII: Lost Identity.

I’ve said numerous times throughout my life that my ability to pack a suitcase or car so efficiently can be attributed to the thousands of hours I’ve spent playing Tetris. Filling every nook and cranny, rotating and sliding each piece just so. My skills are superhuman. So when presented with Bag It!, a game where the task at hand is to pack a bag of groceries by moving items around on a grid... well, I’ve been training for this my entire life.

Welcome to the Red Crow Mysteries: Legion walkthrough on Gamezebo. Red Crow Mysteries: Legion is an Adventure game played on Mac, PC or iPad, created by Cateia Games. This walkthrough includes tips and tricks, helpful hints, and a strategy guide on how to complete Red Crow Mysteries: Legion.

When it comes to game developers, they don't get much bigger than Will Wright. Every time Wright's involved with a project, it's bold, ambitious, and tends to change the genre it's a part of for the better. Now, the man behind the projects like The Sims and Spore has just revealed that he's moving onto a brand new social gaming title called HiveMind.

Welcome to the Time Mysteries: The Ancient Spectres Collector's Edition walkthrough on Gamezebo. Time Mysteries: The Ancient Spectres Collector's Edition is a Hidden Object Game played on the PC created by Artifex Mundi. This walkthrough includes tips and tricks, helpful hints and a strategy guide on how to complete Time Mysteries: The Ancient Spectres Collector's Edition.

Charlie Brown’s baseball team has just been invited to play a big game in New York City. You’d think they’d be happy, but instead they find themselves scrambling to raise the money needed to get proper team uniforms – and what better way to raise the money than a street fair? Starting with that simple premise, Beeline Interactive has managed to pull together a celebration of Peanuts that social gamers around the world will fall in love with.

Snoopy’s Street Fair is a freemium game for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Join Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang for some fun at the local fair! It will be up to you to keep things running for everyone, so you will need to make sure that you’re ready for any challenges ahead. Luckily, Gamezebo’s quick start guide has all the tips, tricks, guides and walkthroughs you’ll need to get things running in no time!

RPM: Gymkhana is the worst kind of racing game. It promises high-octane action, white-knuckle drifting, and crazy amounts of fun. It turns out that these are not promises, they're lies. Instead, this is one of those games where the needle on the quality gauge never gets out of the "mediocre" zone.

Where’s My Water? is getting its own web series. Rumors continue to swirl about feature films based on FarmVille and Angry Birds. Popular mobile and social games are now becoming popular brands, and along with that comes the slew of media tie-ins. Of course, some games are better suited to the film and television treatment than others. We’re still not quite sure what a FarmVille movie will actually look like. But there are plenty of other options and we’ve rounded up our favorites here.

First Enrique, and now Michael Jackson. Zynga has announced that the late King of Pop will be making an appearance in CityVille in support of the new MJ-themed Cirque du Soleil show The Immortal World Tour.

Teaser trailers are known for, well, teasing a game, but Digital Chocolate's latest has to be the teasiest teaser of them all. The one minute long trailer doesn't tell us much about Galaxy Life, other than the fact that it will star some cute sci-fi creatures.

If you’re thinking that Ticket to Ride Pocket is simply a shrunk-down version of the iPad adaptation of Ticket to Ride, you’re dead wrong. Well, you’re sort of wrong. Or maybe you’re sort of right. Ultimately, it’s hard to qualify this as a port of its bigger cousin because, while the base components feel identical to the glorious iPad edition, Ticket to Ride Pocket has been stripped down so much that it doesn’t really count as the same product.

THX Games have taken two gaming favorites and blended them together to make the Facebook equivalent of a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. Triviador is a fun mix of Risk-style strategy and Trivial Pursuit, and though it hits some awkward snags, it’s still a title quick-fix gamers will want to check out.

Welcome to the Death Under Tuscan Skies: A Dana Knightstone Novel walkthrough on Gamezebo. Death Under Tuscan Skies: A Dana Knightstone Novel is a hidden object/adventure game played on the PC created by Boomzap. This walkthrough includes tips and tricks, helpful hints, and a strategy guide to how to complete Death Under Tuscan Skies: A Dana Knightstone Novel.

With so many games available in the App Store, it’s inevitable that we all have our favourites. But how many of us really know what the real stories behind those favourites are? Ryan K Rigney, a games journalist whose written for such acclaimed outlets as GamePro, Mac|Life, and Touch Arcade, wants to share those stories with you in his upcoming book Buttonless: Incredible iPhone and iPad Games and the Stories Behind Them.