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  • Daedalic changes Blackguards based on Steam Early Access feedback
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    Daedalic changes Blackguards based on Steam Early Access feedback

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    Blackguards developer Daedalic Entertainment recently released a trailer for their turn-based strategy game, showcasing the praise the game is receiving from the community. Blackguards is currently participating in Steam's Early Access program, allowing interested gamers to jump into the current pre-release build of the game, in order to provide feedback to the developers at Daedalic Entertainment. In a press release issued to media outlets, Daedalic Entertainment Senior Producer, Kai Fiebig, said, "To us, the Early Access has been very beneficial. We gathered a lot of important and constructive fan-feedback during the first weeks of Early Access and will add features according to the feedback until the game's release."One of the biggest changes Daedalic Entertainment has planned is the implementation of advanced character customization options. 
  • The Humble Puppy Bundle features Revenge of the Titans, Droid Assault, and more
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    The Humble Puppy Bundle features Revenge of the Titans, Droid Assault, and more

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    The newest weekly sale on the Humble Bundle website brings shoppers the Humble Puppy Bundle, in partnership with Puppy Games.A percentage of proceeds from the Humble Puppy Bundle will go to support GamesAid.The Humble Puppy Bundle includes Ultratron, Droid Assault, Revenge of the Titans, and Titan Attacks. Buyers who play more than the average price (currently $3.47) will receive Steam keys for all four games. The soundtracks of Ultratron and Revenge of the Titans are also included. DRM-free versions of the games are also available. 
  • Ridiculous Fishing and Badlands win iOS Game of the Year recognition
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    Ridiculous Fishing and Badlands win iOS Game of the Year recognition

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    Earlier in the week, Apple announced that both Vlambeer's Ridiculous Fishing and Frogmind's Badland won game of the year for iPhones and iPads respectively. Ridiculous Fishing was released on March 23rd, while Badland released on April 4th.We reviewed Ridiculous Fishing, back in March, and absolutely loved our time with it. We awarded the game a perfect score. Our only criticism was that we felt a bit silly tilting our device's screen while playing.In April, we reviewed Badland, giving it four out of five stars. While we enjoyed the beautiful art style and clever puzzle designs, the multiplayer left much to be desired and success in the game sometimes came more from luck, than skill.Runners up to Ridiculous Fishing were Plants vs. Zombies 2 and Device 6. Runners up to Badland were XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Impossible Road. If you're wondering what games Gamezebo liked best, be sure to check back for our Best of 2013 roundup starting Monday!
  • Solve a murder mystery all businesslike in Mansion Lord
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    Solve a murder mystery all businesslike in Mansion Lord

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    Within Mansion Lord players will have the opportunity to build a mansion, invite wealthy guests over for dinner, hire detectives when those wealthy guests end up murdering one another, and ultimately collect the bounty offered for the arrest of the murder. The developer, Golgom Games, is combining a number of game types into Mansion Lord, and thus players can expect to find tile-based world-building, turn-based RPG encounters, and business simulation mechanics, all within the game.Players will be able to tailor their mansion in order to draw in more elusive murderers (who are tagged with bigger bounties). Using Mansion Lord's suspect database system, players can check out the likes and dislikes of a specific killer, and plan accordingly. Once the killer is cornered, the turn-based system comes into play, and strategic planning is necessary in order to capture the criminal. The detectives then earn experience points which can be used to upgrade their skill-sets and equipment. 
  • Steampunk platformer Teslagrad out now
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    Steampunk platformer Teslagrad out now

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    Set in a fictional time period in "Old Europe", Teslagrad tells the story of a boy on the run. The menacing patrolmen in red uniforms chase the boy from his home and pursue him across the rooftops and through the alleyways of his village. With just a bit of luck, the boy escapes the grasp of the patrols and finds himself in an abandoned castle. He stumbles upon an artifact that allows him to manipulate magnetic fields, giving him the ability to move massive platforms and force obstacles to easily move out of his way.These magnetic gloves are the first of many tools that the boy will come across as he unravels the mystery of the tower ruins he has accidently stumbled upon.  
  • Eat furniture as a robot in Not the Robots
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    Eat furniture as a robot in Not the Robots

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    Just recently released, Not the Robots is a roguelike adventure where players must stealthily rid offices of their furniture. Developed by Eli Piilonen and David Carney and published by tinyBuild, Not the Robots is the result of an incubation program at HouseOGames, and the first major title the two developers have worked on together. Previously, both Piilonen and Carney produced the award-winning Flash game, The Company of Myself.Within Not the Robots, players will have to carefully go about devouring furniture in various office settings. The trick here is that as the furniture is consumed there is that much less cover to hide from the patrolling guards (armed with machine guns) who are more than willing to end player's sofa-eating rampages.Featuring randomly generated levels, gadgets to utilize and master, gameplay modes that accommodate for the amount of time a player can allot to a session, and controller support, gamers interested in Not the Robots can pick up the title on Steam, for $9.99 (currently 40% off, down to $5.99 as a launch promo). Not the Robots supports Windows, Mac, and Linux. 
  • Quiet Christmas is a merry old-school adventure game
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    Quiet Christmas is a merry old-school adventure game

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    As a kid growing up, for me, the most exciting part of Christmas was always the night before, trying to go to sleep but instead only thinking about Santa coming and dropping off all the presents. In Quiet Christmas, it's not just the excitement keeping the protagonist up. Players will have to navigate through the 2D adventure game in search of solutions to all of the problems currently keeping the protagonist awake at night. From a broken heater to obnoxious neighbors, players have plenty to do before, as the rhyme goes, "not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse."As a lighthearted (and seasonal) spiritual successor to Nostatic Software's Quiet Please, Quiet Christmas has been previously released on pretty much every mobile platform: Android, iOS, Windows Phone. The game is available for 99-cents on all platforms.Quiet Christmas' developer, Mike Oliphant, recently spoke out on his blog about the advantages and disadvantages of selling a game at such a low price point. 
  • Legacy Games’ Tarzan Unleashed swings onto iOS devices
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    Legacy Games’ Tarzan Unleashed swings onto iOS devices

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    Available now for both the iPhone and iPad, Tarzan Unleashed is a free-to-play endless-runner set in the universe of Edgar Rice Burrough's Tarzan series. In the game players will take on the role of the vine-swinging legend as they swing, slide, dodge, and jump their way through Tarzan Unleashed's procedurally generated content. Fruit is the currency of the game, and players should strive to collect as much of it as possible, since it can be used to unlock character upgrades and boosts. Diligent players will even be able to unlock Jane and Cheeta as playable characters."Legacy is excited to be the first company to bring the rich legend of Tarzan to a whole new generation of mobile game players," said Ariella Lehrer, CEO of Legacy Games, in a press release.  "For more than 100 years, Tarzan has inspired movies, TV shows, animation, and comic books.  Now Tarzan is swinging onto touch screen devices, the ideal platform for this iconic license, and bellowing his infamous yell."Tarzan Unleashed is available now for iOS devices using iOS 5.0 or later, though it is optimized for iPhone 5 users. The game is completely free to download and play.