Welcome to the quick start guide for Puzzle Chasers, a new puzzle game by Konami. In Puzzle Chasers you will be racing the clock to find the missing pieces for jigsaw puzzles and collecting enough coins to decorate your mansion.
When the evil sharks of the world are capturing and packaging helpless fish as a processed food product, something has to be done. As the unconventional Fish Heroes, it's up to you to thwart the bullies of the sea in the only form of justice that cube-shaped fish can deliver: a Boom Blox meets Angry Birds catapult beat down.
There's plenty of merit to the idea of combining genres. The Puzzle Quest series, for example, cleverly fused role-playing and puzzle elements together, resulting in a hybrid that proved both addicting and original. Barrel of Donkeys' upcoming game Toybox for iOS is employing the same method, featuring components from both the shooter and "match 3" genres.
Remember that show Most Extreme Elimination Challenge? That Japanese game show where contestants would swing on ropes over pools of mud or run up hills while dodging giant foam boulders? Well imagine that show, except instead of mud pits there are electrified floor panels, and instead of giant foam boulders there are deadly robots that want to fill you full of holes. That's pretty much what Man in a Maze is... another major difference being it's a puzzle game in development for PC, Mac, iPad and iPhone, due out sometime this fall.
When Zynga unveiled Bubble Safari to the world last month, it seemed pretty clear that they were headed in an exciting new direction: arcade games. This morning, the Big Z took the wraps off of their second arcade game for Facebook - and if you're a fan of frenzied color-matching fun, you're in for a doozy.
You've been thrown into the dungeon for the crime of practicing witchcraft, and now you must escape! Fortunately, you're an escape goat - and you're playing Escape Goat, the 2D puzzle-platformer that made its debut as an Xbox Live Indie Game last November and is now available on the PC - so this sort of thing comes naturally to you.
You know what we can't stand? Video game tutorials. Nine times out of ten a tutorial will either be walls of text that we're clearly not going to digest properly, or half an hour of "do this simple thing", "now do it again but with an added element" and repeat until fin. The best tutorials are those which either incorporate the teaching into the gameplay, or let us figure it all out for ourselves.
In the world of video games, a single good mechanic can become a hotbed of inspiration and innovation for developers. The portal gun from Portal 1 and 2 is a fine example, with more than a few games attempting to straight up copy it or do something more unique. Gateways falls into the latter camp, shifting gears to a 2D setting and throwing in different-powered "gateways" along with other standout features.