There's a lot going on in Galactic Trader. It's a game about mining strange alien planets for minerals, engaging in spaceship warfare, and buying and selling materials in an open market place. But, even with all of this going on, it's a surprisingly accessible game. Not every aspect of the game works well, but as a whole Galactic Trader is a largely enjoyable space sim.
Atlus's Trauma Center sparked a boom in "medical" video games in the console space, but the craze has extended to surprisingly few Web games. Hospital Town is one of the first "medical" Facebook games to catch our eye and it offers a promising social take on the genre. While there are action mini-games to play in Hospital Town, the bulk of the gameplay is more sim-like and focuses on hospital management. You need to assign patients to beds for treatment, check them out when they feel better, and decorate your hospital.
Like the second volume of a textbook, 3 Blokes Studios has created another series of gray-matter exercises with Brainiversity 2. They've learned a little bit from their first outing, and added some new games to the routine. Brain training games really exploded when Nintendo released Brain Age for the Nintendo DS. It was a series of games that purportedly made your brain stronger by "exercising" different parts through targeted activities. Since then, there have been many different brain-training games from different studios. The first Brainiversity was a decent collection of games that had all the trimmings of a brain training game: a cute mascot, trackable progress and a nice selection of 16 games.
Check out our tips & tricks for Magical Forest.THE BASICS Magical Forest isn't a very difficult game as long as you understand the basic concepts. The goal is to raise a variety of pets, harvest the goods that they produce in order to sell them and buy more expensive pets. Harvest the more expensive goods, sell them and get even more expensive pets, so on and so forth, until you've saved a million gold coins. Once you have a million gold, you can buy back the forest from the Chainmaw Lo...
If you have any deadlines today, such as submitting a game review to your editor, don't download Magical Forest. If you do, kiss the next few hours of your life goodbye. You should also grab two Popsicle sticks and some dental floss for when your finger goes numb from all the mouse clicking.
Ever wondered what it's like to take care of a unicorn? How about a three-headed Cerberus dog? You'll look after these wondrous creatures and more in Magical Forest, an upcoming title from 3 Blokes Studios and iWin that combines elements of monster ranching, Virtual Villagers-style resource management and real-time strategy in a fantasy-themed package.