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Enclosure: Infinite Hues instills peace. If petting a cat is enough to lower one's blood pressure (which it is), then surely this browser-based game can do the same. More »
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More than 16 million players have enjoyed Armor Games' flash-based Shift series of puzzle platformers. Now Akysys Games seeks to capture some of that magic on Nintendo's 3D handheld with Shifting World. More »
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Thanks to its wonderfully convenient camera, most iPhones are home to dozens if not hundreds of random photos, depicting everything from smiling friends' faces to particularly interesting bits of plastic. These photos are the fuel for Chillingo's twisted new photo game Play Kalei. More »
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Here are two tricky puzzles for you to solve. More »
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Bouncing, a rather straightforward knock-out puzzle game from JRSoftWorx, confounded me for a solid 30 minutes until I realized the problem wasn't the game, it was me. More »
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Rarely does a game with such a boring name and such a boring premise turn out to be so damn addictive. More »
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A pair of friends vow to meet each other in the park each day, despite a twisted world that strives to keep them apart. This is the simple story behind ilomilo, a puzzle game much deeper than initial appearances. More »
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Here's a curiosity: Over the past 90 days, eight of the top 12 sellers in the Kindle Store - including all of the top six - are games, dusting President George W. Bush's memoir and heavyweight writers like John Grisham. More »
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Bejeweled 's Endless mode is soothing enough to put players into a blissful trace. With subliminal positive affirmations, fine aural tones, and breath modulation, Bejeweled 3's Zen mode could have players slipping into puzzle-induced comas. More »
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Today is Binary Day, being that it's 10/10/10 - and that goes for both here and Europe. And to continue its 10-month celebration of the 10th anniversary of Bejeweled, PopCap has an offer that is free to you today. More »
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Although she's reprising Mary from the Pietà, the secret is not "Pitgirl is a virgin." Having trouble divining the message inside this Monday Night Combat wallpaper? Think bigger picture. Seen via Uber Entertainment. More »
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Castlevania Puzzle: Encore of the Night takes the classic Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and transforms it into a puzzle role-playing game. Can they do that? More »
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Nominated for awards in Art and Technical Excellence for obvious reasons in the 12th Annual Independent Games Festival, Playdead's stunning black and white puzzle platformer Limbo is heading to Xbox Live Arcade this summer. More »
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MTO USA's PSP puzzler Kurulin Fusion combines "futuristic graphics" with a musical score directed by Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu, and it's available later today on the PlayStation Network. MTO USA's marketing pitch? "Have fun. Don't eat." More »
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Puzzle and rhythm collide in O-D Beat Drop, the puzzle game that lets you use the beat of your own music to set the pace of the game. More »
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Attention PC gamers and Xbox 360 owners - your free time dies in a week and a half. Gyromancer, the unholy union of Square Enix RPG, Pokémon, and Bejeweled Twist, now has a release date. More »
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Big Fish Games presents Drawn: The Painted Tower, a simply gorgeous PC puzzle adventure game available for digital download this Friday. More »
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Blitz Arcade is pricing their downloadable puzzle game Droplitz to move, with both the Steam and iPhone versions of the engaging title now available ridiculously cheap. More »
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Nintendo revitalizes Punch-Out!! after a 15-year-long break with the Wii re-imagining of the NES original. Little Mac and Doc Louis return, as does the original Punch-Out!! cast, for a decidedly old-school, but carefully updated homage. More »
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Atlus USA is getting set to make their Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, and iPhone debut with Droplitz, a fluid puzzle game from Blitz Arcade. More »
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Atlus has officially delayed their DS puzzle platformer hybrid Steal Princess until May, in order to make sure more people are aware that Steal Princess exists. More »
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The latest trailer for Capcom's Flock surely is an indicator that we are in for the best UFO animal herding puzzle game ever created by human hands. More »
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The latest trailer for Electronic Arts' Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure shows us that being a puzzle block is much more exciting that other puzzle games would have you believe. More »
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The game rivaled only by Solitaire in terms of man-hours lost at workplaces around the world makes its way to the Xbox Live Arcade today, in the form of Minesweeper Flags. More »
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Creat and Tikgames are combining gamers' craving for puzzles with their deep-seated love of geometric shapes, resulting in Cuboid, a new puzzler coming soon to the PlayStation Network. More »
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Crayon Physics Deluxe, the 2008 Independent Games Festival Grand Prize Winner, is getting dangerously close to release, and to prepare for the waxy buildup that is sure to ensue, creator Petri Purho has launched a brand new website for the game and is now actively accepting pre-orders. What does a pre-order of Crayon Physics get you? How about $5 off the already ridiculously low price of $20, plus a guaranteed spot in the Crayon Physics Deluxe beta? I declare it not too shabby indeed. More »
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Capcom is hunting for Bay-Area gamers to come to their secret lair and test out a super-secret game, eat potential cookies, and be showered with prizes, all in the name of focus testing. Their requirements are quite meager: More »
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SouthPeak's Xbox Live Arcade adorable bear-creature puzzler Roogoo is now available for the PC wherever fine PC games are sold. Released earlier this month via Xbox Live, Roogoo is addictive as it is cute. Just ask SouthPeak CRO Melanie Mroz. More »
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It's been 25 long years since the Rubik's cube graced a game console, and 1983's Rubik's Cube for the Atari 2600 hardly did the little puzzle justice. Now the Game Factory and developer Two Tribes is getting a chance at solving the Rubik's video game puzzle with Rubik's World for the Nintendo DS and Wii. The game will invite players to step inside the cube to experience a collection of puzzle games based around Cube concepts, with both versions containing their own unique lineup of mini-games, from assembling 3D objects to navigating mazes. The Wii version will support four players at once and features an online message board, while the DS version will utilize the wireless connection to connect to a community for the game. I'd assume that somewhere in there they'll include an actual Rubik's cube for you to solve, hopefully allowing for my two favorite solving methods - sticker swapping and violent disassembly. We'll find out this Fall! More »
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While today's Nintendo Virtual Console releases may have failed to stir joy in Wii owners, things are looking much brighter on the Xbox 360 side of things, as Mr. Driller Online is queued up for a Wednesday Xbox Live Arcade release. Featuring classic single player modes as well as online multiplayer for up to four players, the game looks to be a brilliant addition to the XBLA puzzle game stable. It's almost sickeningly colorful, but that's just the way I like it. Mr. Driller Online will be available Wednesday morning for 800 Microsoft points. More »
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First SouthPeak delivers Things on Wheels to the Xbox Live Arcade, and now they're dropping Roogoo on it. What is Roogoo? According to SouthPeak and developer SpiderMonk, Roogoo is a frantic puzzle game in which you try to drop geometrical shapes through rotating discs in order to save the planet Roo and the Roogoo race, which look like cute little teddy bears you just want to cuddle. According to Symantec, Roogoo is adware that installs a Layered Service Provider that monitors network traffic. I'll take the second one please. Roogoo should be available for Xbox Live Arcade and PC this spring, and I'll buy it simply for the fact that it has a cheerful bear flying across the bottom of the screen pooping rainbows. That's all I ever wanted. More »
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I've been looking forward to Zak and Wiki: Quest for Barbaro's Treasure ever since it was called Treasure Island Z. I continued to love it through it's questionable name change and now, having played several different builds, I'm still a huge fan. I got a chance to sit down with Zak and Wiki producer Hironobu Takeshita to talk a bit about the quirky puzzle game and why they went with such a ridiculously long name. More »
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The lure of mobile gaming keeps getting stronger. Now Vivendi Mobile has announced one of my all time favorite puzzle/strategy games of all time is coming to a cell phone not yet near me. The Incredible Machine was a huge hit when it was released back in 1992, putting you in charge of building complex Rube Goldberg puzzles in order to achieve simple tasks. It spawned several sequels, the last being 2001's The Incredible Machine: Even More Contraptions for Windows and Mac. More »
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My morning? Spent playing GalvesAdventure, a point and click puzzler. The goal is to move the baby forward until he defeats the lion. There is and order, and timing is important. If you can't move forward anymore, hit "reset" because you might be stuck. Feel free to help each other out in the comments section. My hint: Clouds, think clouds! Brian Ashcraft More »
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I am intrigued by Joel Johnson's post over on Dethroner about Puzzle Quest and not just because hearing Johnson enthuse about a game is almost akin to seeing Regan cry about policy problems. More »
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What better way to bring back the 1980's with Mario and Rubix cubes. This six-colored New Super Mario Bros. puzzler breathes new life into old favorites. The cube has been out since last November and retails for ¥2,079 (US $17). Two words: Must have. Brian Ashcraft More »
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Majesco announced today that The New York Times Crosswords, a game that will feature, wait for it, the New York Times Crosswords. Clever title, huh? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=232889&view=rss&microfeed=true It takes a lot for a new game to grab me these days, having been swimming around the gaming community since I was a wee babe. A game has to be truly unique and innovative to keep me from automatically filing it away under a genre heading for future reference. Portal. Katamari Damacy. Parappa the Rapper. All excellent examples. Well you can add SEGA's newly announced PSP title Crush to the list. Crush is a hybrid 2D/3D puzzler with a truly innovative gameplay mechanic. "Set within a complex, hypnotic 3D world, players will use the game's unique crush mechanic to "crush" the environment and transform it into a more simplified 2D platformer." More »
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The "humorous, physics-based action game full of inventive gizmos, weapons, characters, and environments" built on Unreal Engine 3, which must have a "make pretty" switch, has been released on Steam for your downloading pleasure. The game will set you back fifteen bucks, but there is a free trial version for you skeptics and those holding out for the Xbox Live Arcade version. More »
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First and foremost, I'm sorry. Klei Entertainment asked me to review their foody puzzle game Eets more than a month ago, and at this point even the plaintive little "sooo....when's that review goin' up?" emails have ceased. More »
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