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Gem Shop Review
Whether you love tennis bracelets or tiaras, Hipsoft's latest puzzle game, Gem Shop, is sure to put a smile on your face. The game takes many of the best aspects of puzzlers and combines them with the fun of running a small business to create a uniquely challenging title that will have you playing for hours.
Elements Review
With so many increasingly complex casual games flooding the market, it's easy to forget that sometimes the simplest concepts can still work wonders when it comes to providing an afternoon's entertainment. Case in point: Elements, a basic but enjoyable New Age puzzler that's sure to engage with its soothing presentation and straightforward mechanics, which - while effortless to comprehend - will leave you happily perplexed nonetheless.
Mind Medley Review
Forget about watching your weight and cholesterol: the latest health obsession is not with the body but with the mind, and the buzz word is "brain games." You can add Mind Medley to the growing list of games that are concerned with the size, weight, age (or, in this case, brightness) of your brain.
Return to Mysterious Island Review
Jules Verne is considered to be one of the pioneers of science fiction thanks to fantastical novels like Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days, and The Mysterious Island. It's the last story that The Adventure Company and Kheops Studio have chosen to craft a Myst-style adventure game around with positive results.
Ingenious Review
Challenging, fun, head-scratching, infectious, irresistible, addictive... As acclaimed as ultra-prolific German board game designer and PhD in mathematics-possessing wunderkind Reiner Knizia's various works - like Amun-Re and Taj Mahal - are, casual user-friendly isn't a term you'd use to describe most. Happily though, as Ingenious - the latest virtual conversion inspired by said braniac's over 200 title-strong personal catalogue of creations - proves, one should never judge a book, or desktop diversion, by its cover.
Pirate Island Preview
Let's face it -- pirates are hot once again, thanks in part to Johnny Depp's swagger at the box office. And so it's no surprise this treasure-seeking-on-the-high-seas theme is a popular one in computer games, too.
Up next is Sandlot Games' Pirate Island, a swashbuckling puzzle game with a boatload of humor that will keep you laughing while you click. While this three-in-a-row game mechanic has been overdone, and frankly, so has the pirate theme, it's a blast to play for both novice and seasoned gamers.
Jungo Review
Forget everything you know about Bejeweled and the five hundred other 3-in-a-row games on the planet (and that's a conservative number).
Jungo has changed the rules of the game and added a clever animal theme, great graphics and unlockable goodies worth working towards.
Sweetopia Review
Rumor has it the only thing more addictive than videogames is candy.
As for Sweetopia, a charming little reflex-intensive arcade puzzler that combines both? Let's just say the title's magically delicious, color-matching antics should prove a hit with enthusiasts hungry for finger-blistering fun.
Galapago Preview
In real-life, the Galapagos Islands - a province of Ecuador located 500 miles west of the Ecuadorian coast, which lie directly on the equator - are famed for their exotic beauty and abundant natural life.
But on desktops across America, the tropical paradise will soon be immortalized instead for the intriguing pattern-matching antics it plays host to in Oberon Game's Galapago.
