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So fresh off production of The Lost Cases of Sherlock Holmes and Emergency Room: Real Life Rescues, it seemed like a natural fit to combine the two elements and start on a game based on the TV series House M.D. I was very enthusiastic to start working on the project because I was a fan of the show, which is saying a lot because I don't watch very much television (I'm more of a movies-kind-of-guy) so finding a show that I've actually seen, let alone enjoy, is pretty challenging. (Nothing against TV programs per se, I just generally prefer to play games and watch movies.) 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»

Lexulous may not be a name that is on the tip of your tongue, but say Scrabulous to any old school Facebook fan and you'll see their eyes light up with excitement.  After a long and drawn out legal battle with Hasbro, Facebook's first Scrabble simulation has returned with a new name and a few new twists.  But with a name-brand Scrabble game on Facebook now too, does Lexulous have what it takes to stand up to the big boys of word-building? 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»

Whether you love spiders or not, there's something completely entrancing about watching the little buggers scamper their way across a silky, delicately-constructed web and await their unsuspecting prey. As fascinating as it is to jump directly into the carapace of one of these eight-legged fellows, Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor is as much about the mysteries hidden in the world around you as it is about the life of the lone spider you'll play. Therein resides its beauty. Read more»

In the world of Waker, all of our dreams are a path to the stars and back. Sometimes these paths are broken and the dreamers sleep forever. It's up to you, a Waker, to fix these paths so that the dreamers can once again awaken from their slumber. It sounds like a terrific story in a beautiful world of sleep, but between the mundane presentation and terrible gameplay, Waker was one dream we were dying to wake up from. 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»

What Halloween-themed games are you playing this weekend? Gamezebo put together a roundup of 13 of our favorites to help you get into the spirit. Some are light-hearted romps with pumpkins and dancing zombies, while others are downright scary. So turn the lights down, pull out the bowl of candy, and let's get spooked! Read more»

The team at Faunasphere, Big Fish Games' browser-based causal MMO, gave Gamezebo an early peak at some brand new Thanksgiving-themed content that's scheduled to roll out next week. Keep reading for a look at the new content, and to read our mini-interview with Faunasphere's Lead Designer Toby Ragaini.

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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»

Casual Games and even games in general are not known for engaging its audience with with heart felt emotion. Gold Sun Games newest title hopes to put an end to that with the first Romance casual game Broken Hearts: A Soldier's Duty. Help our madly in love heroine Maria Lopez restore her memories in this heart breaking romantic tale of love, romance, deception, and tragedy.

My name is James Bernard (Lead Designer and Producer at Gold Sun Games) and I am very pleased to present to you a sneak peak of our upcoming game in the form of this Developer's Diary. I'd like to take this opportunity to give an inside look at the development and creative process starting from the very first day of the original concept. Read more»

What girl doesn't love a big, fairy-tale wedding? How about a wedding that takes place in New York City, one of the most romantic cities in the world? Sound like a dream to you? Then you'll probably enjoy the exquisite scenes and romantic wedding story in Dream Day Wedding: Married in Manhattan. Read more»

Castle Age is exactly what would happen if the makers of Mafia Wars spent their teenage years playing Dungeons & Dragons instead of watching Scorcese flicks.  Instead of a mob you'll have an army.  Instead of committing crimes you'll be completing quests.  Rival bosses are replaced with orcs, different territories with lands of adventure... you get the idea.  Yes, Castle Age is the latest casual MMO to get caught up in the "wars" phenomenon on Facebook - but that doesn't mean we didn't have fun. 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»

Spelunking can be a dangerous past time, but spelunking in a cave where there's no immediate path in any direction?  That's chaos!  Cave Chaos takes a browser-based approach to the world of cavern exploration and it embraces the panicked excitement that its developer Nitrome is known for.  Caves and caverns have long been a staple environment in the world of gaming, which makes it doubly refreshing to see such a fun new take on these surroundings. 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»

Managing a small airport is no easy task, so why not see if you're up to the challenge?  Turn around a struggling airport by mapping flight plans, opening new routes, buying bigger planes, and making sure all of your customers stay happy in an attempt to turn around the business woes of a little airport with a lot of personality. 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»

Learn how Playrix Entertainment's Gardenscapes evolved from "Fishdom with butterflies and flowers" to the hidden object/gardening hybrid that it is today, which characters didn't make it into the final version of the game, and what 1960s British pop group inspired Austin the Butler's sideburns in our Behind the Game interview with Playrix's VP of Production, Igor Elovikov. Read more»

Check out Shockwave's Spooky Specials, a collection of games available for just $6.99 until the end of the month. All PC games are 25% off on Sandlot Games until Oct. 25. Dream Chronicles is 50% off at PlayFirst until Oct. 25 when you use the coupon DREAM50SPECIAL at checkout. The retail (boxed) version of Can You See What I See is just $1.99 at MumboJumbo this weekend - the sale starts on Friday at noon Pacific Time. Corbomite Games' Pizza Morgana is 50% off until Oct. 31 when you use the coupon code Halloween2009 at checkout. JoWood games are 30% off until Oct. 26 at GOG.com. Enjoy!

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