With the Campfire Legends trilogy, we've unfortunately seen the quality drop with each installment. While this third (and apparently final) entry in the series retains the same solid voice acting and graphics, the gameplay has become too difficult or tiresome to hold up to the standard of the previous games - specifically, the first.
Well kids, it's almost Halloween and you know what that means—spooky tricks, piles of treats and the inevitable release of bad Halloween-themed video games. Every year publishers try to bank on our holiday fervor by getting us to spend money on themed entertainment. Unfortunately, the quality of these offerings in general, just isn't very good. In keeping with this disappointing trend, developer Casual Arts brings us Halloween: Trick or Treat, a textbook example of cynically conceived, carelessly made, holiday-exploiting, interactive dreck.
Two weeks ago, Zynga invited the press to check out its new office and get a sneak peak on its upcoming games and projects.Lost amidst the announcements around Project Z (a Facebook-based social games network that I am not even sure Zynga fully gets what its all about) to upcoming game launches of CastleVille (CityVille meets a RPG with a touch of Shrek, very cool) and a slew of casino style and mobile games, was the announcement around Hidden Chronicles, Zynga's first foray into the hidden object genre.Hidden Chronicles may do for hidden object games what FarmVille did for strategy and simulation games, making the hidden object genre the most popular casual game genre of them all.
Welcome to the Haunted Halls - Fears from Childhood walkthrough on Gamezebo. Haunted Halls - Fears from Childhood is a hidden object/adventure game played on the PC created by ERS Studios. This walkthrough includes tips and tricks, helpful hints, and a strategy guide to how to complete Haunted Halls - Fears from Childhood.
Prepare to go on an epic adventure in Odysseus: Long Way Home. Help Odysseus find his way home to Ithaca after the Trojan War and navigate all the obstacles he will face along the way. Long Way Home is based on Homer's famous epic The Odyssey and give players a nice break from all the stories set in haunted mansions and dilapidated hospitals.
Meridian4 has shared some new screenshots and a video trailer for Family Vacation, an upcoming hidden object game that's set to launch on Oct. 25 on Big Fish Games.
Welcome to the Reincarnations: Back to Reality Collector's Edition walkthrough on Gamezebo. Reincarnations: Back to Reality Collector's Edition is a Hidden Object Game played on the PC created by Vogat Interactive. This walkthrough includes tips and tricks, helpful hints and a strategy guide on how to complete Reincarnations: Back to Reality Collector's Edition.
It's fairly common for hidden object games to turn to history, myth and legend for their inspiration, but the range of cultural traditions they reference is often woefully narrow. The Dark Hills of Cherai: The Regal Scepter, from Indian developer Chayowo Games, forgoes the overused Victorian mansion/Celtic ruin/19th century village themes to create its own unique brand of hidden object gameplay, wrapped artfully up in the magic and lore of India.