Move over, Indiana Jones - you’ve got Nicole Rankwist on your tail. Call me biased, but it’s rare for me to see a female player character who isn’t the stereotypical “cute” or “vivacious”, and Nicole is neither of those. She’s a smart, serious-looking New York journalist, and daughter of a famous archaeologist who’s gone missing [...]

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Don’t mess with Flipper. He’s got a laser, and he’s not afraid to use it. That’s the simple and yet incredibly appealing idea behind Laser Dolphin, an arcade-action game that gives you shooting, swimming and jumping activities across the oceans of 4 worlds, on a mission to save the Prime Minister from aliens, somehow. Just [...]

Farmer Jane may be another time-management game with the farming theme, but it does a sweet take on the graphics department. You’ll be treated to some simple, lovely 3D graphics that fit nicely into the game. It’s well-integrated and taken advantage of, sporting camera panning in level introductions, and a selection of customizable clothes (in [...]

Ranch Rush could be easily dismissed as another “typical” farm management game, considering the number of them released as of late. The game’s title doesn’t sound like much either, but if you’re willing to look beyond that modest first impression, just ten minutes into the gameplay and you’ll be quite fascinated.

If there was one thing that I learned from watching movies last year, it was that rodents are responsible for some of the finest cuisine in the world. The story of a rat who longs to be a great chef should be strangely familiar to those that have given Mystery Cookbook a try. Similarities between [...]

In terms of game design, Sunshine Acres takes after Farm Frenzy, another solid title released not too long ago by Alawar. The game is essentially fast-paced time-management, where the focus is on building up your productivity, rather than just completing tasks. Each level lasts usually around four to six minutes, but within that short time [...]

Get this game. Right now. Download it right now. Everyone I have shown this game to has loved it, and they’ve all shown their friends, who also loved it. It’s that kind of game.

I’ve played quite a few hidden object, or seek-and-find, games in my time. They have ranged from the so-so, such as The History Channel Lost Worlds, to the excellent, like the Mystery Case Files series. There are certain things that I look for when evaluating these games, such as the quality of the graphics, the [...]

Sometimes it takes an original game concept to put the bounce back into our step. In the case of Obulis, it’s simply the idea of cutting a few ropes and watching colored balls fall, bounce and roll through increasingly complicated levels. IonFX has had plenty of experience in making these cunning physics-based puzzles, since there [...]