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PopCap Games has announced Zuma’s Revenge – Adventure. Zuma’s Revenge – Adventure is a version of the game that only contains adventure mode. There are no challenges. The adventure mode is the meat of the game and a great buy for gamers on a budget. The game is budget friendly, but does not cut out any of the great graphics. Players get the same adventure game found in the premium version, great graphics and everything.

“Adventure mode is the core of Zuma’s Revenge!, and consumers on tight gaming budgets will have hours of fun with this infinitely replayable, never-the-same-game-twice edition at half the cost of the premium version,” said Dennis Ryan, EVP of Global Business Development. “More avid gamers may prefer the advanced challenges and additional modes in the premium version of Zuma’s Revenge! but this Adventure mode edition will enable any and all customers to enjoy this tremendous sequel to one of the all-time classics.”

Zuma’s Revenge! is a great match three/marble popper type game. Players take on the roll of a frog and must make matches of three or more of the same color balls, by shooting a ball at a line of moving balls on the board. The game is fast paced and provides hours of fun. For a full review of the premium version, click here.

Zuma’s Revenge – Adventure is available now at big casual game download sites for $9.95.

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Legacy Interactive has announced the release of Vampire Story as a digital download. The game was released back in 2008 at retail stores and is now available at Legacy’s web site. Vampire Story is an adventure game for the PC and is easily attained by heading to Legacy’s web site and downloading the game. No more having to go to a retailer to play Vampire Story.

Players take on the role of Mona De Lafitte, a singer that has been captured by her vampire maker and taken off to Draxsylvania. Mona’s one dream has been to sing in the Paris Opera. She has one trusty friend, a bat named Froderick and together they manage to escape from the captor. They try to work their way towards Paris where she can sing again, but encounters all types of strange people and strange places. Mona has to accept the fact that she is a vampire and learn to use the vampire skills to her advantage.

If you are in need of an adventure game and like vampire stories, head over to Legacy’s web site and check out Vampire Story.

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Guess the News is a word game for the iPhone/iPod Touch. The goal of the game is to spell the words correctly using the provided letters. The easy mode will provide letters for the words, but the medium and hard modes only provide where a vowel is.

The words that need to be finished/guessed are taken from news stories. The news comes from all different types of categories, from international news, entertainment news, sports and even random news stories. The stories come from all of the big news sources, such as CNN, CBS and ESPN. A little snippit from the article is given and the player has to figure out the headline for the article.

Figuring out the headline involves taking the selected letters and making a word out of them. There are multiple words to complete and a jumble of letters to use. The letters that can be used for a particular word are highlighted in the jumble of letters. Players use the highlighted letters to make a word in the highlighted spot in the headline. As mentioned above, the easy mode already has letters in the word and the medium and hard levels just have a v to represent where a vowel is in the word.

Players have the option of playing in timed or classic mode. Classic mode allows players to take their time and take as long as they want to complete a word. Timed mode is just as it sounds, a timed mode where players only have a certain amount of time to complete the words. Each time a word is complete the clock is reset for the next word. If a letter is placed in the wrong spot, time is deducted from the clock. If the clock expires before the headline is complete, the game is over.

The control mechanisms are really easy. Players can choose to double tap the letter or drag a letter. Double tapping a letter will cause the letter to be put in the next available slot. If the letter is not correct, it will go to the correct spot automatically, in classic mode, but the player will not get the points for that letter and the letter turns red. If the player chooses to drag a letter, they can drag the letter to any spot in the word. For instance, if you know the word ends in an e, then you can drag the e to the last letter slot in the word.

Each letter has a point value associated with the letter. Each time the letter is placed in the correct position in the word the player gets the points on the letter. Building the words quickly, will result in more points because a bigger multiplier is used. The points build up the meter and players have to get the meter to the blue triangle to progress to the next level in the game. If the blue triangle is not achieved, the game is over and players must start over.

Guess the News is a very different, but extremely fun game. It is refreshing to see different types of games on the iPhone/iPod Touch and not the same old genres of games. This game will be of interest to anyone that enjoys word games such as Wheel of Fortune, Scrabble or even Hang man. Guess the News can be played in small bits of time, but it is really addicting and hard to put down, so good luck with only spending small amounts of time with the game. If you are looking for a good word game, check out Guess the news. The game is only 99 cents until Oct 8th. After Oct 8th the game goes up to $2.99, which is still a fair price for the amount of game you are getting.

Gourmania is a casual game for the PC that Alawar has ported to the iPhone/iPod Touch. The game combines two popular genres of casual games, hidden object games and restaurant business simulation games.

Players have to stir, chop, shake and bake their way to a great restaurant. Players start out slow with owning a small cafe, then move their way up to a sushi bar and eventually make their way to the top chef competition to prove their skills. As players are playing through the game, they attempt to beat 60 different levels.

The game has been adapted to the iPhone/iPod Touch by an internal division that has already brought five successful games to the iPhone/iPod Touch. The game should “fit” the iPhone/iPod Touch and the user interface is easy to use.

“The developers at Alawar Friday’s Games designed a convenient toolkit for fast creation of games in the I-Spy style, enabling us to drastically cut down the time necessary for releasing such titles while retaining all of the great graphics of the original version,” said Kirill Plotnikov, Alawar’s vice president of publishing. “We’re pleased to release Gourmania as the best proof of that efficiency and commitment to quality.”

If you are in the market for a new iPhone/iPod Touch game, check out Gourmania.

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PopCap Games has announced a free to play flash version of Plants vs Zombies. The game is only available on PopCap’s website. Now players can experience the game that has had the greatest opening success so far.

In case you are not familiar with Plants vs Zombies, it is a tower defense type game, where players have to stop the advancing zombies. Players use sun power to “buy” guns and other weapons to kill off the approaching zombies. The flash version of the game includes three different modes of play, Adventure, Endless Survival and Vasebreaker. There are fourteen different adventure levels to work your way through. There is a zombie that makes an appearance in the flash version that has never been seen in the PC version.  The flash version of the game streams the music, unlike other flash versions of PopCap games.

Plants vs Zombies is an extremely fun and addicting game. If you are looking for an entertaining game, check out the flash version of Plants vs Zombies.

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