In Real Life

Can You Name All 20 Planets In This Video Game Solar System?

This weirdly engrossing three-minute video delivers 20 stylised worlds evocative of some very familiar video gaming franchises. Like trivia night at a bar, they slowly reveal themselves, with the final clue basically giving everything away. Can you name all 20 on sight before the last tipoff?


February 7, 2012
PC

Enclosure: Infinite Hues Is A Delightful Puzzle For Your Browser

Enclosure: Infinite Hues instils 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.


December 7, 2011
PC

Mind-Bending Flash Favourite Shift Gains 3D Twist

More than 16 million players have enjoyed armour 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.


April 22, 2011
Mobile

Play Kalei Twists Your Photos Into Endless Entertainment

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, all fuel for Chillingo’s twisted new photo game Play Kalei.


January 25, 2011
In Real Life

Name These Famous Video Games, If You Can

Here are two tricky puzzles for you to solve.


January 12, 2011
PC

Let Us Make Science, No Matter The Cost!

Rarely does a game with such a boring name and such a boring premise turn out to be so damn addictive.


January 8, 2011
Xbox

Review: Ilomilo’s Surprising Depth Is A Matter Of Perception

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.


December 11, 2010
News

Games Beat Books 2:1 On Kindle’s Sales Chart

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.


November 2, 2010
News

Bejeweled 3′s Zen Mode Will Put You In A Trance

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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.


October 11, 2010
News

Go Grab Bejeweled 2 Today; It’s Free

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.