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I'm a video game critic, game designer and obsessive gamer. I play everything, but my real love is old school point-and-click adventure games so when the zombies come, I'll be hunkered down in a bunker with my Keurig, my dogs, and a copy of Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within.
  • Strange Loves: Vampire Boyfriends Review
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    Strange Loves: Vampire Boyfriends Review

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    "I'm a senior at a small Southern college and I never thought this would happen to me." Thus should begin Strange Loves: Vampire Boyfriends, the new interactive romance novel by Tin Man Games. This so-called send-up of the supernatural romance genre uses the choose-your-own-adventure model to confuse its audience and offer up an abundance of cliches, cheesy storylines and schlocky endings. 
  • Be Richest! Review
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    Be Richest! Review

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    Divo Games is obviously committed to its city building franchise, having made three city builders in the last three years: Be Rich, Be Richer and this month's release, Be Richest (Divo's official namer sure isn't working very hard). Most of the time, developers think adding things to a game is the best way to improve it; for some reason, our friends at Divo have gone the opposite route. Many features here are stripped out, and the results not surprisingly, are mixed. 
  • Redemption Cemetery: Grave Testimony Review
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    Redemption Cemetery: Grave Testimony Review

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    Wow. It's hard to admit it, but ERS Studios has really dropped the ball on this one. Normally the makers of some of the highest-quality hidden object games around, this month the company brings us Redemption Cemetery: Grave Testimony, a disjointed, simplistic hidden object adventure that plays like a game made for kids under 10.  Although here and there hints of inspired creativity come through, in the end they just aren't enough to ensure the game's redemption.
  • Surface: The Noise She Couldn’t Make Review
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    Surface: The Noise She Couldn’t Make Review

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    These days, Elephant Games is the hidden object game maker to beat. The company's credits include stellar games like Mystery Trackers: Black Isle and Urban Legends: The Maze. This month, its stable of quality games grows yet again with hidden object psycho-drama, Surface: The Noise She Couldn't Make. This over-the-top adventure explores bold new territory not by journeying to distant lands, but by venturing into the twisted recesses of the human mind. 
  • Echoes of the Past: The Revenge of the Witch Review
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    Echoes of the Past: The Revenge of the Witch Review

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    Some games are about telling a good story and some games are about doing stuff; rarely does a single title manage to do both. That's why I'm inclined to forgive the latest in the Echoes of the Past series, Echoes of the Past: Revenge of the Witch for its storytelling shortcomings. This new hidden object adventure by Orneon and Big Fish represents one of the best "doing stuff" -type games I've played in many a moon.
  • Grace Brown: World Mission Review
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    Grace Brown: World Mission Review

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    Lara Croft fans might be stuck waiting until 2013 for the Tomb Raider reboot, but in the meantime their appetite for adventure can be sated by getting to know another female treasure-hunter: the intrepid Grace Brown. Prepare yourselves everyone, for Grace Brown: World Mission, the new social hidden object adventure by developer Viral Games. Though still in beta, this baby is shaping up to compete with big-budget hidden object adventures and handily kicks the butts of everything available now in social media.
  • Jewels with Buddies Review
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    Jewels with Buddies Review

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    The gamer population is growing exponentially, in large part due to the veritable flood of games being released on mobile platforms. Of course, it can be hard to fish the winners out of this monster wave of apps. That's what makes it so special when you do find something good—something like Jewels With Buddies. This cute match-three game by Stofle Designs will no doubt be responsible for creating a good number of new gamer converts.
  • Jane Austen’s Rogues and Romance Review
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    Jane Austen’s Rogues and Romance Review

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    At first blush, it could seem natural to take Jane Austen's books—tales seemingly obsessed with social interactions—and make a social game out of them. Thinking about it further though, it's a pretty strange idea. After all, today's online social shorthand would likely shock Ms. Austen and her oh-so-proper contemporaries. Still, in Jane Austen: Rogues and Romance, developer 6waves is hoping that Anglophiles will enjoy a fairly standard hidden object formula, so long as it's done with Austen-ian decorum. And they're right. Sort of.