Trivia question - how many fashion games have been released in 2008? I count nearly a dozen. Most of these are time management, only a couple let the player dictate the fashions, and none let the user design her/his own clothes... until now! Fashion Solitaire takes the basic concept of solitaire and turns it into a vogue designing experience. Brace yourself for some fresh air.

Large Animal Games is the latest developer to jump into the fashion-themed game category with its upcoming creation - Fashion Solitaire. I'm a big fan of this group's other games (like the Saints and Sinners series) so I have rather high expectations for Fashion Solitaire.

Vicki Nelson is an ex-cop turned private investigator whose eyesight is failing; Henry Fitzroy is a 450-year-old vampire and the illegitimate son of King Henry VIII. Together they're crime fighting's odd couple, investigating unique cases that involve zombies, ghosts and demons. You'll get to step into Vicki and Henry's shoes In Blood Ties, a hidden object game based on the Blood Ties TV show (which in turn is based on Tanya Huff's Blood Books).

Guests are the life of any party. No matter how good the food is, or how great the place is, if the people aren't happy then the most carefully planned event can easily turn into a disaster.

Achieving the perfect balance of guests - where interesting conversation flows but personalities don't clash - is truly an art unto itself, and Lifetime RSVP shows just how tricky it can be in a rather unique way: by representing guests as multicolored tiles that must be arranged harmoniously on a game board.