Let me get this out of the way right off the bat: This game is Cute. With a capital C. The locations are cute, the story is cute, the main character is cute, and the little critters you are making are cute. Even the evil prince who has usurped you is somewhat cute. This game [...]

That iconic ray of light illuminating a long-forgotten tomb for the first time in centuries: it’s an image seen in books, movies, and now, quite appropriately, in Treasures of Ra. It’a appropriate because the game is about solving puzzles in Egyptian tombs, and the Egyptians certainly made a big deal about Ra, the Sun God, [...]

Playfirst would like you to believe that their new game, Mystery of Shark Island “tempts everyone’s inner beachcomber.” To be honest, I’m not sure I have an inner beachcomber – I have more of an “inner guy who pounds fruity drinks, gets sunburns in uncomfortable places and ogles the co-eds down at Cabo on spring [...]

The simple law of averages says that if you are an avid Casual Gamer (and if not, what are you doing on this site?) you probably played Magic Match. In fact, odds are you played it and liked it. So many people played it and liked it that it became a surprise hit and even [...]

You know, when everyone started making casual games, there was this great naïve belief that we could just go back into the vaults of Zaxxon, Centipede, and Pac Man and bring all of the classics out with some new gameplay, and people would just eat them up. Well, yes and no. While you can certainly [...]

You know, I should get paid extra for every time I have to write the words “Original twist on traditional match-3 gameplay.” But since they pay me in free games anyway, I can only imagine they would just give me more match-3 games. Goodness knows there is no shortage of them. But in this case, [...]

Since this came out so quickly on the heels of the great Grimms Hatchery from Aveyond, we tried for *minutes* to come up with a “which came first, the Hatchery or the Chicken Chase” joke, but decided to give it a rest. You can thank us for that later.

Taking the casual game standard of saving “relative X” by starting a business that involves giving “thing Y” to a number of customers by way of a puzzle challenge, Balloon Express follows in the tradition of a dozen other “service games.” In this case, you get to take a balloon filled with mail and deliver [...]

Do you long for the platformers of yesteryear? Do obese plumbers and golden rings bring a tear to your screen-strained eyes? Pizza Panic might be just the game to scratch that itch then, with enough old-school platformy goodness to brighten the day of even the most jaded gamer.

Nearly every boy that I have ever known has at one time or another wanted to be a fighter pilot. Whether it’s in the first history class that they learn of the Red Baron or when they see the combat footage from WWII fighters, eventually, they all want to be in that fighter plane, feeling [...]