Latest Previews

Reflexive Entertainment has announced its next game, Simplz: Zoo, a time management game that will put players in charge of their own zoo and give them a chance to control nearly every aspect of it, from which animals they exhibit to where to put the drinking fountains. Read more»

When it comes to classic puzzle games, GameHouse's Collapse! series is right up there with the best of them -- which is why we were excited to learn that the franchise is returning with a brand new block-busting, color-matching title called simply COLLAPSE! Read more»

The folks at Big Blue Bubble, the developers who brought us Home Sweet Home and Masters of Mystery: Crime of Fashion, are working on a follow-up to Crime of Fashion called Masters of Mystery: Blood of Betrayal. Keep reading for a sneak peek at this upcoming hidden object adventure. Read more»

Realore sent us some screenshots and information for Jane's Realty 2, the upcoming sequel to Jane's Realty. Like the first game, Jane's Realty 2 appears to be a building sim in the style of Be Rich, where you not only get to build up a town from the outside, but decorate the interiors of the houses with furniture and other items. Check out some screenshots, or chat about the game in our forum.

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GameHouse has given us a preview of the time management game Delicious - Emily's Holiday Season, the fifth game in the Delicious series. In it, Emily is celebrating Christmas in the little town of Snuggford, where two guys are competing for her attentions. Who should she choose? Find out when the game launches on Nov. 18. In the meantime, check out some screenshots and chat about the game in our forum. Read more»

Namco Networks is working on something magical with its upcoming time management game Gwen the Magic Nanny. After she's awarded the title of town's best nanny, Gwen suddenly finds her services in high demand by the magical residents of Fantasy Town, who include wizards, werewolves, robots and more. Read more»

Big Finish Games has released a demo of Three Cards to Dead Time, the follow-up to its debut hidden object game Three Cards to Midnight. We played through the entire demo, which covers the Prologue and Chapter 1 of the 7-chapter (plus Finale) game, so that we could bring you this preview. Read more»

If you didn't get enough of Realore's lively farming sim Farm Mania then stay tuned because Farm Mania 2 is right around the corner. The upcoming sequel (which once again stars Anna and her grandpa) will feature new animals, shops and markets, and new locations to try out skills like fishing, mushroom gathering, and bee-keeping as well as raising animals and growing fruits and veggies. Check out screenshots of Farm Mania 2 and chat about the game in our forum. Read more»

We're pleased to present a sneak peek at Sandlot's upcoming strategy game Westward IV: All Aboard. The game boasts a new storyline and characters, 36 buildings (including new upgrades and features), secret items and characters to unlock, and the ability to train skilled workers to add building bonuses and produce town goods to sell at the train station. Westward IV is launching very soon, and in the meantime you can check out some screenshots, watch a video trailer, or chat about the game in our forum.

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Most games in the building sim genre offer players a variety of different maps and scenarios to play, but cerasus.media's upcoming Build It! Miami Beach Resort is trying something a little different: In it, players continue to work on the same map for more than 60 years as the city becomes bigger and bigger. Read more»

"Classic rock" and "casual game" aren't two phrases you often hear together, but REO Speedwagon: Find Your Own Way Home is combining the two.  This upcoming hidden object game from Merscom and Curious Sense is based on Illinois-based band REO Speedwagon, classic rockers best known for hits like "Keep On Loving You" and "Can't Fight This Feeling" and "Time For Me To Fly." Read more»

Swedish game company KarjaSoft (the maker of Sheeplings and Spandex Force) has shared a few details with us of their upcoming adventure/simulation game Wildhollow, a mixture of dialogue-driven adventure gameplay and raising animals set in a fantasy world. Read more»

Zatun has shared their upcoming game with us, a side-scrolling arcade-style platformer for PC called The Legend of Vraz. The young prince Vraz is in love with Princess Avi, and to win her hand in marriage he agrees to undertake the five tasks set out for him by Avi's father, the Maharaja of Kund. Read more»

With her Uncle Oswald's invention of the Feline Wash-o-Matic, Susie has opened up the "cat wash" - a place where customers drop off their muddy pets and you clean them up! Cat Wash is an upcoming time management game from Namco Networks and Mean Hamster Software (Passport to Perfume, Everything Nice) that should be launching in later October or early November. Read more»

After receiving an anonymous package containing a strange book, Miranda finds herself drawn into the fantastic world of The Otherside. With the guidance of the mischevious Jovie, a possessed teddy bear, she must travel back and forth between worlds and help to unravel the mystery of a brother and sister torn apart in Namco's upcoming hidden object game The Otherside: Realm of Eons. Read more»

The Burtons have just moved into their beautiful new dream home, which, unfortunately for them, happens to be haunted. The family needs your help to clear their house of a group of particularly unfortunate ghosts in the upcoming hidden object game Mishap: An Accidental Haunting.

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Nightfall Mysteries: Curse of the Opera is an upcoming hidden object adventure game where you take on the role of a lowly stagehand in an opera company tasked with solving a deadly mystery in an isolated village somewhere in Europe. Read more»

The Mirror Mysteries is a fantastical upcoming hidden object game from Gogii Games where a mother is whisked off to seven mysterious lands in search of her lost children after the youngsters disappear into a strange old abandoned house. The Mirror Mysteries is launching in November. Check out some screenshots of the game, or chat about it in our forum. Read more»

Captain Space Bunny is an upcoming time management/tycoon game from Vast Studios where you'll play an intergalactic adventure hired by the spacefaring Bunny civilization to discover the location of their mother planet, "Corrotin Beta." Yes, you heard that right: bunnies in space! Read more»

Following the success of Death on the Nile and Peril at End House, I-play and Floodlight Games have teamed up again for Agatha Christie: Dead Man's Folly, a hidden object mystery that brings another of Agatha Christie's classic mystery tales to life.  Read more»

Poor Flo, she always seems stuck picking up everyone else's slack and single-handedly saving the day, yet she still manages this with a skip in her step and a cheerful smile. The greasy apron-adorned, hard working star of the Diner Dash series is about to embark on a whole new challenge-filled journey in her first adventure game. Gamezebo recently sat down for some hands-on time with Avenue Flo, and we're pleased to report this new twist on the series is going to be a blast. Read more»

Merscom, Lifetime TV and Elephant Games (developers of Lost in the City) are teaming up to release a game based on Wisegal, the TV movie about the life of Patty Montanari, a struggling single mom who becomes involved in organized crime. Read more»

Gogii Games is preparing for Halloween with a suitably creepy casual adventure game called Trapped. An otherwise regular day turns into a nightmare for a young woman who wakes up to find herself locked in the trunk of a car not remembering who she is, what happened to her, or what's going to happen next. Worse still: she's being watched by a serial killer who has laid out a series of traps to make sure she never escapes. Read more»

King's Smith is an upcoming time management game from Czech developer Running Pillow that caught our eye for its unique subject matter: you play a young apprentice blacksmith who dreams of becoming a master like her grandpa, and maybe even one day becoming personal blacksmith to the King. Read more»

Francesca Di Porta is on the case of another intriguing mystery in Intenium's upcoming hidden object game Insider Tales: The Secret of Casanova. While reading the memoirs of Casanova, the world's most famous lover and adventurer, she finds the line "There are four moving forces in my life!" What forces are they? What type of secret did Casanova hide? Read more»

Maximize Games sent us the first screenshots for 2 Tasty, a cooking game featuring a romantic storyline between the young talented cook Libby and her friend Cole. Players will prepare dishes using recipes that you'll also be able to follow along with at home to create real dishes in your own kitchen. There's no word on a launch date yet, but in the meantime you can check out the screenshots and chat about the game in our forum. Read more»

After teaming up on Lost City of Z, Merscom and National Geographic Games are gearing up to release  Nat Geo Games: Mystery of Cleopatra, a hidden object adventure starring the famous Egyptian queen. Read more»

Flora's Fruit Farm is an upcoming time management game published by Eidos and developed by Honeyslug where you get to tend an ever-expanding orchard with the help of magic gloves and fairy dust.

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Playrix Entertainment gave us a heads-up that the third game in the Fishdom series is almost ready to launch. You're no doubt wondering whether Fishdom: Spooky Splash will be a match-3 puzzle game like the original Fishdom, or another hidden object game like Fishdom H2O: Hidden Odyssey. Well, match-3 fans, it's your lucky day! Read more»

Gamezebo has the early scoop on Masquerade Mysteries: The Case of the Copycat Curator, an upcoming hidden object adventure developed by Elephant Games (makers of Lost in the City) and published by Merscom. Read more»

LucasArts has announced a new puzzle platform game called Lucidity, which is set for release as a PC download and via Xbox LIVE Arcade on October 7. Read more»

Merscom has given Gamezebo an exclusive preview of The Tudors, an upcoming hidden object/adventure game based on the Showtime television series of the same name. You'll play as Elena Sedgraves, a woman enlisted by King Henry VIII to be his eyes and ears abroad and uncover plots against England. Read more»

Fans of casual role-playing games might remember a little indie gem from Hanako Games called Cute Knight. In the game, you had three years to guide a young orphan girl from the ages of 18 to 21 to decide what path her life would ultimately take. Would she become a hero and marry a handsome prince, or spend her days as a dumpy assistant cook getting bossed around in the kitchen? These were just two out of dozens of possible outcomes.

 

Hanako Games is working on a sequel called Cute Knight Kingdom that stays true to the original format while greatly expanding what you get to see and do.

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Supermodel Amanda Manville has been murdered, and it's up to the smart and sassy Lacey Smithsonian to investigate a cast of nine quirky characters before the killer strikes again. Hostile Makeover is a spunky soon-to-launch hidden object game from Merscom and Lifetime based on the third novel in Ellen Byerrum's Crime of Fashion mystery series. Read more»

Merscom (Plan It Green, Winemaker Extraordinaire), gave Gamezebo the exclusive scoop on the company's upcoming building simulation game, Empire Builder: Ancient Egypt, which was developed by Iguana Entertainment. Read more»

We have some new screenshots for I-play's hidden object game Women's Murder Club: Twice in a Blue Moon, which is launching Sept. 10. Check them out here.

 

As we reported last week, the third game in the Women's Murder Club series lets players join the Women's Murder Club and take on the role of Lindsay Boxer, Claire Washburn and Cindy Thomas to decipher cryptic messages, uncover facts and gather evidence needed to stop a killer in his tracks. The game contains more than 50 levels with 25 unique locations, 27 puzzles and nine investigations.

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Slingo (a fusion of slots and Bingo) has been entertaining casual game fans for years, but developer Funkitron has something a little different in store with the upcoming Slingo Mystery. Slingo Mystery blends traditional Slingo gameplay with a hidden object adventure set in a luxurious Las Vegas casino. Read more»

Valerie Porter and the Scarlet Scandal is an upcoming hidden object game from PlayFirst and GameBrains set in the 1920s, where you play as Valerie Porter, a young aspiring reporter looking for her first big scoop. Read more»

Merscom and National Geographic Games are teaming up to publish Nat Geo Adventure: Lost City of Z, a hidden object game based on the true-life legend of a lost city rumored to exist in the jungles of Brazil. Read more»

As the makers of Cooking Academy and Cooking Academy 2: World Cuisine, Fugazo knows a thing or two about food. They've funnelled that experience into Kitchen Brigade, an upcoming time management game that has you running a kitchen, preparing food to serve to customers, and delegating tasks to your crew of willing assistants. Read more»

Playrix Entertainment is working on a new hidden object game that also lets you create and customize a beautiful garden. Intrigued? Check out our preview to get the "dirt" on Gardenscapes. Read more»

FlyWheel Games gave us a peak at 10 Days to Save the World, the upcoming sequel to 10 Days Under the Sea. Set two years after the events of the first game, 10 Days to Save the World focuses on Carrie's sister, Diana Salinger, as she tries to avert global disaster.

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PopCap Games just announced the sequel to Zuma, Zuma's Revenge!, and Gamezebo has the scoop. Read on for our exclusive hands-on preview, screenshots, and the very first gameplay trailer.

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The premise for iWin's upcoming building sim, Coconut Queen, is interesting indeed! You find arrive on the tropical island of Lui Lui to find that not are there no other females on the island (leaving the brawny native gents to compete for your attention exclusively), but the natives also hail you as the island's much-awaited queen. Read more»

I-play couldn't have chosen a better setting for its upcoming travel journalism-themed hidden object game, City Sights: Hello, Seattle! Not only is I-play itself (and parent company Oberon Media) based there, but the "Emerald City" is also the place where the casual games industry comes together each year for Casual Connect. Keep reading for our hands-on first impressions. Read more»

Gamerizon has given us a sneak peak at QuantZ, an upcoming puzzle game that will blend action, match-3 and marble-popper gameplay. The game has been a long time coming, but we're happy to announce that it will launch later this month for PC and Mac. Read more»

There's trouble on the set of Cooking Dash: DinerTown Studios, the sequel to PlayFirst's time management-themed Cooking Dash. When the hungry cast and crew of a new TV show threaten to walk off the set, it's up to Flo to start cooking and save the day. Read more»

Strange things are happening in the ghost town of Bodie. Tourists have reported seeing the ghost of Evelyn Byers, a little girl who was killed more than 100 years ago. The tombstones of the twelve people who witnessed the murder are missing, and something is definitely up. In Ghost Town Mysteries, the latest hidden object game from Gamespin and Gaming Hungama, you'll pick up the investigation from where reporter Amy Brown left off. Read more»

Her Interactive has released new information and screenshots for the 21st instalment in the Nancy Drew adventure game series, Nancy Drew: Warnings at Waverly Academy, which is launching in October. Read more»

Merscom has given us an exclusive preview of an upcoming casual adventure game based on one of the greatest unsolved mysteries, the legendary ghost ship Mary Celeste. Read more»