Archive for the ‘Puzzlers’ Category
E3 2010: Super Scribblenauts fixes original’s flaws
Retaining the same bright, flat cartoony design as its predecessor, Super Scribblenauts amps up the already improved fun by adding a new control scheme, adjectives, and a heavier emphasis on puzzles to the mix.
Bejeweled: 10 Years of Awesomeness
Popcap Games’ baby is all growns up, appearing on virtually every platform in existence. If you factor in the free-to-play online versions, trial downloads, pre-installs, and demo disks, an estimated half billion people have played Bejeweled in one form or another since its introduction.
Popcap Games asks you to Show Your Bejeweled Love
Anyone who knows me well has at one time or another endured chatter that detailed how Bejeweled Blitz is one of the most perfect and addicting games ever made. It’s “desert island game” good. That’s why I support Popcap Games in it’s “Show Your Bejeweled Love” contest, which started on April 27th and will continue [...]
Grab your stylus: Scribblenauts sequel coming this fall
5th Cell’s Scribblenauts had quite the lofty intentions, even if its wings began to melt a bit as it approached the goal. Still, the revolutionary game in which the entire game world can be influenced by your jotted words, apparently was profitable enough to warrant a sequent after mixed reviews. Today, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment [...]
Review: Bejeweled Twist (DS)
I’m of fairly certain mind that no video game developer wants their product associated with drugs (well, at least publicly), but Popcap’s Bejeweled series, in its many incarnations, has been my equivalent of digital crack. The most recent addiction has been Bejeweled Blitz which has devoured the vast majority of may Facebook time. Forget friends, [...]
Vempire Takes A Bite Out Of The Puzzle and Strategy Genres
Vampires rule this country and there’s nothing to be done that can stop their reign. A casual stroll through Barnes & Noble this past weekend opened my eyes to this fact as I watched teenagers, young adults, and a few people who looked to be beyond the target demographic flock to the True Blood and [...]
Popcap Releases Its First Hidden Object Game For Mac: Escape Rosecliff Island
Hidden object games is a genre that, frankly, sounds boring and perhaps a hair tedious until you give one a go. My first entry into the genre was Dream Day Wedding, a game that totally tanked a weekend as I became obsessed with finding all of the items cleverly blended into the beautiful backgrounds. It [...]
Review: Magical Drop Touch (iPhone/iPod touch)
Bubble popping games have been the face of “casual” gaming for decades, but the more hardcore among us may have mistaken them nothing more than the playthings of those that aren’t “true” gamers. I’ll openly admit that I once dwelt in that camp, but it was the Neo Geo’s Magical Drop III that swayed me [...]
Review: Scribblenauts (DS)
Scribblenauts is not a good game. The controls are absolutely maddening. All movement is controlled by the touch screen, and that wouldn’t be so bad if every other action in the game (save moving the camera) weren’t also controlled by the very same tiny surface. You combine these controls with a physics system that would [...]
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