Episodic gaming is a pretty new phenomenon. It's tough to judge one episode over another. It's like looking at a movie and judging it only by any given 20-minute segment. With the release of Back to the Future Episode 5: Outatime!, we're finally able to give the entire season the perspective it needs, and heartily deserves.
Often the brands that find traction on the Internet aren't necessarily the biggest or most explicable. For instance, take Domo, a silent stop-motion animated character who serves as the mascot of the Japanese broadcast network NHK. You would expect that no one outside of Japan would care about such a character, but Domo is popular in the West and appears on t-shirts, plush toys, comic books, and other collectibles. Planet Domo is his charming and surprisingly fun entry into the world of Facebook games. This game does not appear to be localized, but instead created specifically for the Western market by noted developer TheBroth.
Indie developer Hothead Games (Cell Bound, Bunny the Zombie Slayer, Chromanoids) has released the first set of images for their upcoming sci-fi adventure game for PC/Mac, The Baconing.
At a time when next-gen video game visuals have reached a seemingly impassable peak, it's increasingly difficult to sell a game solely on graphics. Something extra special needs to be pulled off, with effects and ideas that are rarely explored, for a gaming experience to be essential based on the visual factor. Lume, a delightfully cute puzzler for PC and Mac, shows off some of the most interesting effects we've seen in a good while, with a world made entirely out of paper and cardboard, and real-life camera panning that cannot be beaten. Unfortunately, the gameplay cannot live up to its looks, with hopelessly obscure solutions and a rather abrupt playing time.
Welcome to the Dracula: Love Kills walkthrough on Gamezebo. Dracula: Love Kills is a Hidden Object game played on the PC and Mac created by Waterlily Games. This walkthrough includes tips and tricks, helpful hints, and a strategy guide on how to complete Dracula: Love Kills.
Major consumer brands like CMT have rushed to Facebook as the social game industry has exploded, though brands have yet to dominate the industry the way they've historically dominated the console game industry. A typical branded console game is usually a well-worn game formula with the license slathered over it, but branded Facebook games are still all over the place. CMT's Platinum Life: Country is typical of this confusion in brand-focused Facebook games, offering a variety of loosely-integrated gameplay options bundled up with a lot of licensed music and voice clips from major country music stars.
There's too much unintentional hilarity in Dracula: Loves Kills for it to work as a serious vampire tale, but if you can either overlook (or embrace) the hackneyed character art and voice acting, and don't mind some rather uninspired bits of mini-gaming, you'll find that it's a very entertaining and surprisingly lengthy hidden object game with an unexpected and most interesting twist.
Munchies' Lunch is a pleasant surprise as casual puzzle games go, offering gameplay with actual depth and a family-themed story that has actual heart. In Munchies Lunch, you play the matriarch of a family of bouncing cartoon heads that must skillfully outwit enemies as she tries to gather food and water. Her family is on the run from monsters who've driven them out of their forest home in a scenario that is inspired by Footloose Games President Vlado Jokic's youth escaping from the Yugoslavian civil war.