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It seems like everywhere I turn these days, there’s another new 8-bit adventure that’s set on bringing me back to the days of playing The Legend of Zelda in my parent’s basement as a kid. But there’s a very good reason for this steady influx of new-age retro-inspired adventures: it’s because they were all just so seriously awesome, and Elliot Quest looks to be just as awesome as the rest.

If you had a stalker, and if one day this stalker told you he had hidden nine pieces of a treasure map in various places around the local National Park, then you’d probably want to find out just what the hell his deal was, right? Well so does the narrator and “misanthropic gamer” in Alone in the Park, a very low-key adventure game that functions more like a riveting visual novel than anything else. With sharp, succinct writing and lighthearted adventuring puzzles, this is one interactive experience that will weave its winding footsteps into your mind and stay there until every last inch of that park is explored.

Looking for a great hack’n’slash dungeon crawl that even gives Diablo a run for it’s money? GOG.com has kicked off their 2013 #noDRM Summer Sale, and to celebrate, they’re offering Torchlight for free for the first 48 hours.

When a little physics-puzzle game about an alligator named Swampy who just wanted to take a shower hit the App Store in 2011, I don’t think anyone was expecting the colossal hit that was about to rock the world of mobile gaming. It soon became clear that Disney’s Where My Water? was simply too big to be held in that underground bathtub, so next players saw a licensed sequel in Where’s My Perry?, based on the popular Disney cartoon, Phineas and Ferb. Well now we finally know what’s in store for the future of Where’s My…? games, and that future is starring none other than Disney’s own Mickey Mouse!

Eternal beauty can be a real hassle. There's the fitness regimen, all those salads, tons of moisturizing cream, and the complete absence of chocolate in your diet. Plus, in the case of the queen in Living Legends: Frozen Beauty, there's the matter of tricking the most beautiful girls in the kingdom to periodically walk into your castle so you can steal their life force, all without anyone else finding out about it. What a bother!

The big question: what happens to us after we die?  In the world of Master Reboot, the answer is clear: your soul is uploaded to the Soul Cloud.  All your memories and experiences are stored in dedicated servers that allow you to recall and relive your life even after it’s over.  “Saving your past to secure your future.”

Skyrim is amazing. There’s a pretty good chance you already know this. The game snagged more Game of the Year awards in 2011 than you can shake a stick at. It’s huge, it’s addictive, and you could easily lose yourself in there for a few hundred hours. If you’re thinking of picking up the Legendary Edition that just launched, you won’t find a better deal than right here at Gamezebo.

Marketing himself as “The Man at Going Loud Studios” on Facebook and “Indie game developer, training wheels edition” on Twitter, a quick scan of Ben Kane’s social media reveals little to the curious creeper.  The opportunity to learn more about the guy from Ottawa who was nominated for Best Indie at the 2012 Canadian Video Game Awards was given to me, a humble social media strategist, at the OIGC (Ottawa International Game Conference).

Considering the Scribblenauts series is published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, having the DC Comics characters show up to help or hinder Maxwell was probably inevitable. It'll soon be a fait accompli as Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure is set for release later this year, and even the early version on the E3 floor was dripping with comic geek goodness.

It’s the Friday of E3 week, and we’re exhausted. Whether at the show or covering it from the homefront, the entire GZ crew is beat. So are the developers who are usually so eager to set up sales, so… there’s not a ton to pick from this weekend.

No one was more surprised than I when Big Fish Games convinced me to like golf. Scratch that—when Big Fish made me obsessed with golf. Big Fish's Fairway Solitaire kept me awake till the wee hours of the morning, matching cards and chasing the hard-to-achieve hole-in-one. Unfortunately, that game's free-to-play first cousin, Fairway Solitaire: Tee to Play, is by comparison a bit of a let-down.

I'm probably not alone in thinking that when Disney Infinity was announced, it sounded a little too good to be true. Separate worlds for a bunch of beloved Disney and Pixar properties and a mode where you can mash them up, all tied together by collectible figures? Yet there it was, waiting to be played at E3, and if I can paraphrase Jackie Chiles in a completely different context, it's real, and it's spectacular.

Imagine for a moment that you’re Spider-Man. You wake up, have your coffee, and look out the window. What you see before you is utter, inexplicable chaos. If you’re a modern comics reader, you probably recognize this as an early moment from Age of Ultron. If you’re a gamer, this is a perfect analogy for the experience you’ll find in Marvel Heroes.

We cover plenty of new games here at Gamezebo every week, but the number of games we’ve already covered that show up on new platforms?  It’s staggering.  This Wednesday and every Wednesday, Gamezebo is rounding up the games that aren’t quite new, but might be new to you depending on your platform of choice.  And who doesn't love new(ish) games?

Off the Record: Linden Shades is an original release from Eipix, creator of Amaranthine Voyage: The Tree of Life and Final Cut: Death on the Silver Screen. It's a classic hidden object game in many ways, by dropping a lot of the exploration and inventory management features in exchange for good old fashioned mini-games and hidden object scenes.

Long, long ago, an alien named Abe came to the PlayStation. Abe was a friendly alien, but he was also in a lot of trouble: He worked for ruthless slave masters who sought to turn him and his species into processed snack food. Abe fled and tried to find his way to safety by stumbling through several puzzle/platforming levels. But trouble has a way of coming back around, and Abe is being forced to relive his original plight in Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty.

Marble shooters are a dime a dozen, but the better ones always stick with you. Case in point: Zuma. Sparkle 2 is an example of a similar outing that could coast along on the success of the games that came before it, but it's actually a slick and entertaining alternative that will very easily usurp hours of your time if you're not careful.

During their big E3 press conference yesterday afternoon, Ubisoft announced two new installments in their popular physics-based racing franchise, Trials: one for next-generation consoles and PC, and the other strictly for mobile devices.

Telltale Games has officially unveiled The Walking Dead: 400 Days, a brand new installment in their critically acclaimed horror-themed point-and-click adventure series. The game was first mentioned during Sony’s big press conference at E3 last night, as part of a new The Walking Dead game bundle for PlayStation Vita, and soon after Telltale followed up with their own confirmation of the game via Twitter.