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Fantastic Forest

Facebook Games

Fantastic Forest is a Facebook-based casual game where players are able to build a village in the forest, go fishing in the river, meet cute new animal friends, explore new areas and solve the mystery hidden in the forest. Fantastic Forest is developed by Wooga, best known as Diamond Dash, and Monster World. Review: The game has a lot in common with Disney’s Ghosts of Mistwood. Both put players in a forest covered in thick fog where they need to unlock new areas one after one, discover structures and characters, complete various quests to unravel mysteries. To do this, players should [...] read »

• Sara Lau
• May 22,2013

Plants vs. Zombies Adventures Review

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Plants vs. Zombies Adventures is a Facebook-based spinoff of the classic tower defense game, Plants vs. Zombies. Presented in 3D graphics, the game extends the zombie fighting experience from your backyard to dozens of courtyards where you place sunflowers, peashooters, walnuts and other plants in order to eliminate zombies in various costumes before they destroy your RV. Staying true to the mechanic of the classic title Plants vs Zombies, the social version “Adventures” recreates the casual fighting between plants and zombies. The player adventures through levels and unlocks new plants. In those levels, he or she collects suns to place [...] read »

• Sara Lau
• May 21,2013

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Gamebox Launches General War: Memories

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Gamebox, the maker and publisher of Project Tank, and DDTank 2, has just announced the launch of the first server Blitz for General War: Memories is scheduled at 7:00, May 21 (PDT). An intense WWII is breaking out in the online world. Commanders now can lead massive armies, tanks and aircrafts into fierce WWII battles. With the success of the General War CBT, the dev team integrated the comprehensive task system and improved the tech research and weapon upgrading based on players’feedback.  In this new version, new dynamic missions specifically designed to help players level up are adding to the PVE. [...] read »

• Sara Lau
• May 21,2013

Atlas Raider Review

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Jointly published by CrayonPixel and Zynga, Atlas Raider is a social board game spiced up by treasure hunt adventures, playable both on Facebook and the official website of Zynga. Vivid cartoon characters, multiple collectible comic books and simple dice rolling mechanics will give you great fun during your first hour or so with it, but when obtrusive micro transactions and recycled gameplay creep in frustratingly, your interest is sure to evaporate quickly. Board games are not new to the vast community of online games, some coming along with actions, some with strategic building, and some with other casual themes. You [...] read »

• Sara Lau
• May 16,2013

RIFT Going Free-to-play on June 12, Bringing Update 2.3: Empyreal Assault

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In response to the F2P trend in the MMO business community, Trion Worlds finally decides to make RIFT free-to-play and the free to play version is now officially called RIFT Lite. The switch of business model is said to have been conceived for quite a long time, according to RIFT team. “We know that the business landscape has changed over the years”, Bill Fisher, a creative director of RIFT explained, “There has certainly been a stigma over the years regarding free-to-play games, but that stigma is going away every day as more top quality games are released with quality F2P [...] read »

• Sara Lau
• May 16,2013

Anno Online Review

Browser Games

Anno Online is a new strategy game by German developer Ubisoft Blue Byte. It features social elements and is played entirely in your browser. It has been in closed beta for a while, but the English beta just opened to the public on May 14th. For those unfamiliar with the name, Anno is a series of city-building real-time strategy games that is nearly 15 years old. Anno Online is the eighth entry in the series. Read on to take a look at what Anno Online has to offer and find out how well it survived the transition of becoming browser-based [...] read »

• Sara Lau
• May 15,2013

Spicy Horse Brings New Loot in Crazy Fairies

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There have been many changes since we first covered the turn-based arcade shooting game Crazy Fairies. Not long ago, the developer Spicy Horse launched the beta for Android version of Crazy Fairies. Today, you will get something new in the browser games. Below is the newsletter from the Spicy Horse team. New Bonuses on Loot Ten new bonuses have arrived giving wild new bonuses on your equipment. How about a chance to reduce your opponents HP to 50% when you hit? Or maybe a chance to reduce your target’s defense to 10% when you hit? Take a closer look at the [...] read »

• Sara Lau
• May 14,2013

HEX: Shards of Fate Surpasses $300k Kickstarter Goal in 5 Days

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The gaming community responds back with a thunderous “YES!” Cryptozoic Entertainment’s upcoming Massively Multiplayer Online Trading Card Game, HEX: Shards of Fate has been fully backed on Kickstarter. With over 3,800 backers and a pledge total of over $450,000 to date, the project blazed through the initial goal of $300,000 in just five days. The enthusiasm for this unique project can be seen with more than 25 backers pledging at the $1,000 tier while hundreds more have pledged at the $250 tier. Stretch goals have been released for the remainder of the Kickstarter period that will offer enhanced features at [...] read »

• Sara Lau
• May 14,2013

City of Steam Review

Browser Games

City of Steam is a browser-based adventure RPG from Mechanist Games and published by R2Games, widely known to publish Wartune, Dragon Pals and a few titles. With stunning 3D visuals, a gripping storyline, tons of quests and multiple choices for heroes in terms of race, class and appearance, the game has surprisingly surpassed everything I have been expecting from an online role-playing adventure. It is easy to play, entertaining and sometimes challenging, and I’ve got myself completely hooked. Review: Honestly, I am not really into role-playing games from China-based developers. Most of the games, including Yitien and Lunaria Story, tend [...] read »

• Sara Lau
• May 14,2013

Blitz Brigade

iPhone Games

The extremely prolific game studio, Gameloft, has tried its hand at the frantic multiplayer shooter formula of Valve’s Team Fortress 2. Tried, and succeeded, I might add. The game is Blitz Brigade for iOS and Gameloft has done a seriously good job of making it a very fun team shooter with five different classes and lots of guns. Review: Blitz Brigade features 120 single-player levels and two different multiplayer modes. When you first start up the game, it will ask if you want to enable the gyro controls. I highly recommend enabling the gyro. Even if you’re in a public [...] read »

• Sara Lau
• May 10,2013