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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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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»

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»

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»

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»

Murder, She Wrote, the hidden object game a lot of us have been not-so-patiently waiting for, has launched! Download the game, write a review, or chat about it in our forum. Read more»

EA buys Playfish for $300 million; PlayFirst announces Hotel Dash: Suite Success; and the developers of Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor challenges the idea that selling games for cheap is the only way to be competitive on the Apple App Store. These headlines and more behind the cut. Read more»

On Wednesday Playdom, the social networking company responsible for Facebook hits like Mobsters and Sorority Life, announced that it had raised $43 million in its first round of outside financing. The very next day the company demonstrated how the money was already being put to use by announcing that it had purchased two game companies: Facebook developer Green Patch, and Trippert Labs, an iPhone and social game developer. Read more»

If you just can't get enough of Fishdom's match-3 / aquarium building gameplay, Playrix Entertainment has released yet another instalment of the puzzle game just in time for the winter season. It's called Fishdom: Frosty Splash, and like the name immplies you'll get to create festive-looking fish tanks with more than 100 winter-themed decorations. Download the game, write a review, or chat about it in our forum. Read more»

Season of Mystery: The Cherry Blossom Murders has launched. Download this hidden object game, write a review, or chat about the game in our forum.
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PlayFirst has announced the upcoming launch of Hotel Dash: Suite Success, the latest addition to the company's Dash series of time management games. Hotel Dash will feature Flo and Quinn (the stars of PlayFirst's Diner Dash and Wedding Dash series', respectively), as they embark on a new business venture as the managers of a chain of themed hotels. Read more»

I-play has just launched Treasures of the Serengeti, a game featuring music, match-3 and jigsaw puzzles set in the Serengeti villages of Africa. Download the game, write a review, or chat about it in our forum. Read more»

Kellie Stanford: Turn of Fate has launched. Help Kellie discover the truth about the Hollywood studio she works for and its mysterious owner in this cartoony hidden object adventure. Download the game, write a review, or chat about it in our forum. Read more»

Last month we reported that video game publishing giant Electronic Arts was planning to purchase a social games company, and today it was confirmed that EA has purchased Playfish -- the makers of popular Facebook games like Pet Society, Crazy Planets, Geo Challenge and Restaurant City -- for approximately $275 million in cash, $25 million in stocks, and further variable cash bonuses of up to $100 million dependent on achieving certain performance-based milestones over the next two years. Read more»

Lost Realms: The Curse of Babylon has launched. Download this hidden object adventure, write a review, and chat about it in our forum.
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RealArcade and GameHouse are merging into one online game portal; MumboJumbo responds to the StoneLoops vs. Luxor iPhone controversy; and TechCrunch exposes a dark side of social gaming: offers scams. These headlines and more behind the cut. Read more»

The hidden object game The Return of Monte Cristo has launched. Download the game, write a review, or chat about it in our forum. Read more»

Game portals RealArcade and GameHouse will soon be merged into a single online gaming destination designed to offer members more features and a larger variety of games, according to RealNetworks, the parent company that owns both game sites. Read more»

Merscom has announced plans to combine casual gaming and social media networking by developing games for Facebook. The company currently has eight Facebook/social media games in development, all of which are scheduled for release later this year or in early 2010. Read more»

Playfirst has released their latest hidden object adventure game, Valerie Porter and the Scarlet Scandal.

Download a free trial of Valerie Porter and the Scarlet Scandal, write a review, and discuss the game in our forum. Read more»

According to a Facebook post by GoPets CEO Eric Bethke, Zynga, the largest social games company to date, has acquired GoPets, a virtual pet 3-D game world where you can play and dress up your pets with customizable clothing.  

You download GoPets to play and socialize on your desktop, so this could be an indication that Zynga wants to expand from social networks like Facebook onto your actual PC itself -- or, maybe I am just reading into this too much....

According to the post, he's been there "for a couple of months."  This news has been reported also by Virtual World News.

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Now's your chance to win a free copy of Campfire Legends: The Hookman, which has been described as one of the scariest hidden object games of all time by Gamezebo readers! We'll be running the contest from now until tomorrow (Saturday, Oct. 31, Central Time). Head over to the forum to learn how to enter. Read more»

PlayFirst's weekend Halloween sale has started! Save 50% on more than 30 great games including Diner Dash, Chocolatier and Emerald City Confidential. A trio of horror games are also on sale this weekend at GOG.com -- save 30% on Obscure, Personal Nightmare, and Waxworks. You still have one more day to take advantage of Legacy Games' weekly specials (50% off spooky adventure games like Scratches and Post Mortem) or Shockwave's Spooky Specials before the deals end after Halloween.  Realore is celebrating Halloween with special discounts on items in the new Ozzy Club and with a Halloween Lottery. Finally, Sandlot Games treats us with 50% off Trapped: The Abduction and Princess Isabella: A Witch's Curse this weekend only (that's $3.99 each!) Read more»

Torchlight, an action/role-playing game from the makers of FATE, has just launched on WildTangent. Download the game, write a review, or talk about it in our forum.
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Big City Adventure: New York has launched! Download the game, write a review, or chat about it in our forum. Read more»

The iPhone version of Codeminion's marble popper SoneLoops! of Jurassica is removed from the Apple App Store due to a copyright complaint; 1UP looks back on five years of the Nintendo DS; and a casual games panel concludes that the days of paying for games up front are numbered. These headlines and more behind the cut. Read more»

SpinTop Games has released its latest hidden object game, Amazing Adventures The Caribbean Secret.

Download a free trial of Amazing Adventures The Caribbean Secret, write a review, and discuss the game in our forum. Read more»

Trapped: The Abduction has launched! Help a young woman escape a serial killer in this hidden object thriller. Download the game for PC or Mac, write a review, or chat about it in our forum. Read more»

Players of FarmVille, the most popular game on Facebook, have so far contributed $487,500 towards the welfare of children in Haiti, reports FarmVille's developer Zynga. The Sweet Seeds for Charity campaign, which has been running for the last three weeks, introduced a special kind of sweet potato into the game as an exclusive item that players could purchase for a small amount of real-world cash. Half the proceeds from the sale of the sweet potatoes goes to two Haiti-based charities. Read more»

Hidden Expedition: Devil's Triangle has just launched. In this hidden object game you'll help track down Phoebe, a famous pilot lost in the infamous Bermuda Triangle. Download the game, write a review, or talk about it in our forum. Read more»

Merscom announces a new game based on the Mary Higgins Clark suspense thriller On The Street Where You Live; Ubisoft's virtua world Ubiworld is now accepting citizenship applications; and Majesco launches Cooking Mama 3 for the Nintendo DS. These headlines and more behind the cut. Read more»

Mary Higgins Clark's best-selling novel On The Street Where You Live will serve as the inspiration for a upcoming causal game for PC and Mac to be developed and published by Merscom, the company announced today. Read more»

Mystery of Cleopatra, the latest hidden object game from National Geographic and Merscom, has launched. Download the game, write a review, or chat about it in our forum. Read more»

On the 100th anniversary of the ill-fated Titanic cruise ship, the Titanic II is set to launch on its maiden voyage. But someone has hidden a bomb aboard the new ocean liner, and it's up to you to find out where the bomb is concealed and save the ship and its passengers. Download 1912: Titanic Mystery - a new hidden object game on SpinTop Games, write a review, or talk about it in our forum. Read more»

The Dracula Files has launched! Dracula has risen from his grave, and only the descedants of the Harker and Van Helsing families can stop him. Download this hidden object game, write a review, or talk about it in our forum. Read more»

Dragon Hatchery, a combination of match-3 and time management gameplay where you raise baby dragons, has just launched. Download the game, write a review, or chat about it in our forum. Read more»

Miss Teri Tale's friend and neighbor, Monty, has been murdered and it's up to Teri to solve the case in the lastest Miss Teri Tale hidden object game. Download Danger Next Door, write a review, or chat about it in our forum. Read more»

October is turning out to be a great month for Fishdom fans, as not one but two new Fishdom games have launched from Playrix Entertainment. The latest is Fishdom: Harvest Splash, a farm-themed match-3 game featuring almost 100 farm-themed accessories and fish. (This follows on the heels of the Halloween-themed puzzler Fishdom: Spooky Splash.) Download Fishdom: Harvest Splash, write a review, or chat about the game in our forum. Read more»

Get the "Blackwell Bundle" at Wadjet Eye Games - all three Blackwell adventure games for $27.50. At Zylom, Blood Ties, Zeal, Can You See What I See, and The Great Chocolate Chase are $1.99 until Oct. 28. Fishdom: Spooky Splash is 50% off at Playrix until the end of the month. Select hidden object games are 10% off at iWin - just enter the code "pier1" at checkout.  Casebook Episode 1 is $1.99 at MumboJumbo. Read more»

Gamezebo interviews Realore; Virtual goods sales are expected to hit $1 billion; and as the recession bites, more gamers are turning to downloads. These headlines and more behind the cut. Read more»