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Waitress.  Detective.  Hotel-keeper?  Is there anything our friend Flo can't do?

PlayFirst has released Hotel Dash: Suite Success.  Our review comes soon.  In the meantime, you can download a free trial of Hotel Dash: Suite Success (both PC or Mac), write a review, or discuss the game in our forum.

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Hello Gamezebo-ers,

 

This is Ryan Modjeski again, designer and producer of Legacy Interactive's upcoming hidden object adventure, The Lost Cases of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 2. Since my last developer diary, things have gotten really hectic around here. Murder, She Wrote just launched (at the time of writing it is #1 on Big Fish Games and Legacy Games) and the energy surrounding that project amplified our stresses as we are quickly approaching our own release date in December.

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Mystery Case Files: Return to Ravenhearst is on sale for $2.99 at Big Fish Games until Nov. 22. (use coupon code RTR299 at checkout.) Westward is still free over at Sandlot Games too, so grab this great strategy game while you have the chance! The Settlers strategy games are 50% off on GOG.com until Nov. 23. Read more»

The approach of Free Realms - a casual massively-multiplayer online (MMO) game from Sony Online Entertainment, is a simple and familiar one: pack as much free content into as friendly-looking a package as possible and sell upgrades, unlocks and items for real money off the back of that initial experience. The obvious hope is that you'll become enamoured enough with the free portions of the game to pony up for advantages and privileges against other players, and Free Realms has plenty of content put aside for those who are prepared to pay.  Read more»

One man's trash is another man's treasure, or so the saying goes. I come from a family of dumpster diggers and garage sale junkies (hey, you never know when you're going to find a real gem!). So, I felt right at home playing Yard Sale Hidden Treasures: Sunnyville from Slapdash Games. Read more»

Big Fish Games announces release dates for Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove; Zynga raises $15.2 milion in new funding; and class action lawsuits could be brewing against social networks over the scam offers scandal. These headlines and more behind the cut. Read more»

As they say, you can never keep a good site (or is that man/woman?) down.

The site gremlins were running amuck, but now we are back up.  Sorry for the inconvenience. I'll make sure the reason we went down never happens again.

Back to writing and posting about great new games to play (and there are many this and next week!

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Beta test casual games before they come out and provide developers with your insight.  Game developers are looking for your feedback to make their games better and they really do listen and change their games based on your advice.  We'll be sending out an email with new games to beta test soon.

If you are interested in being a member of our prestigious beta test program, sign up here.  If you are already a member, no worries;  you don't have to sign up again.

 

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Alawar has just launched the third game in the Natalie Brooks hidden object adventure series. Download Natalie Brooks - Mystery at Hillcrest High, write a review, or chat about it in our forum. Read more»

Luxor Adventures has launched, a game that takes the Luxor puzzle game franchise in a new hidden object direction. Download the game, write a review, and chat about it in our forum. Read more»

Escape the Museum 2 has launched! Download the game, write a review, or chat about it in our forum. Read more»

World's Hardest Game is an iPhone app that actually lives up to its title.  The idea is simple, the mechanics are easy, but trying to accomplish anything is mind-numbingly difficult.  That's not to say the game is bad - in fact it accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do. World's Hardest Game offers up an easy-to-learn game that will make your blood boil in its first five minutes. Read more»

Monkwerks is a game about spelling, about taxing your vocabulary. That its title is (presumably deliberately) misspelled should tell you all you need to know before you even load it in your browser. This is an excellent example of how to take a simple, appealing concept and run it completely into the ground through fundamentally bad and lazy implementation.

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PlayFirst sent us a trailer for the upcoming time management game Hotel Dash: Suite Success, which is launching very soon! The video gives you a glimpse of how elevators will be used in the game to allow Flo to go between floors to reach demanding guests in different rooms of the hotel. Watch the Hotel Dash: Suite Success trailer here, and chat about the game in our forum.

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We can finally share with you the release dates for Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove, the hotly anticipated sixth game in the Mystery Case Files hidden object/adventure series from Big Fish Games Studios. For the first time in the series' history, Big Fish Games will be releasing two different versions of the game: the Collector's Edition will launch on Nov. 25 for $19.99, followed by the standard version in early December which will sell for the usual $6.99. Read more»

Browser-based bicycle rides are few and far between nowadays.  Maybe that's the reason Fig. 8 makes us smile so much.  Its playful title serves as something of a double entendre, referring to the manoeuvring of the bicycle as easily as it does to the landscape on which you'll be cycling.  Rather than riding through picturesque scenery and charming country roads, Fig. 8 will have you cycling through technical schematics on an endless sheet of paper. Read more»

When Cash Cow came out for PCs last year, it was one of those titles that was promptly shunted into the, "cute, but not great," category. The coin-oriented puzzle game, while enjoyable, was a little too simple and shallow for some players. In short, it was a no-frills steak dinner.  Now, though, Cash Cow is back, having been ported to the iPhone, and it seems to have been fleshed out a bit with better gameplay and more content; adding some sides to the dish definitely make this a meal worth sampling. Read more»

What's better than Westward for free?  Nothing, if you ask me.  Click here to download Westward for free from Sandlot Games

While you are out it, check out Westward IV, the latest in Sandlot's saga.  Our review for WestWard IV is coming soon.

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Spore Islands takes the species-creation idea of the hit PC game Spore and sets it loose in a science experiment type environment. What would happen if I tweaked their diets?  What if I reduced their defences?  What if I introduced two more species into their world?  Spore Islands is a god game in the truest sense of the word. Create creatures, tweak their existence, and let them run amok to see what happens. Read more»

Coming out of stasis only to find the world has been destroyed in an all-out nuclear conflict sounds like just about the worst day anybody could have.  But coming out of stasis to discover this in winter, completely naked, with nothing but a much-too-tiny bicycle to save you?  That's worse.  Icycle has you guiding a very chilly, very nude man on a teensy little bicycle across some terrifying terrain in an icy cold future. Read more»

Hanako Games has released Cute Knight Kingdom.  Of course, a review and strategy guide shall come soon.

Download a free trial of Cute Knight Kingdom now, write a review, and discuss in our forum.

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Cat Wash, the time management games about washing dirty kitties to a disco beat, has just launched over at Namco Games. Download Cat Wash, write a review, or chat about it in our forum. Read more»

Sandlot Games has just launched Westward IV: All Aboard, the fourth game in its Wild West-themed real-time strategy series. Download the game, write a review, or chat about it in our forum.
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Clocktower Games has just released the third chapter its Casebook interactive mystery series, Casebook Episode 3 – Snake in the Grass. Like its predecessors (Casebook Episode 1 and Casebook Episode II - The Watchers), Episode 3 features unique photorealistic 3D graphics that use footage of real actors and scenery. Purchase Casebook Episode 3, write a review, or talk about it in our forum. You can also pick up Episode 2 for $7.50 and Episode 1 for just $5 at the developer's site. Episode 0 is still free. Read more»

NinjaBee's award-winning Xbox Live Arcade strategy game, A Kingdom for Keflings, will soon be available to PC gamers as a digital download, the company announced today. Read more»