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TikGames and Creat Studios have announced their “End of Summer Sale Spectacular” on all of their PlayStation Network titles. The studios have nine different titles on the PlayStation Network and all of them are on sale for 40% off. The games are not the only thing on sale, the downloadable content packs for the games are also on sale for 99 cents each. The sale is going on from August 31st through September 14th, so don’t wait.

“TikGames and Creat Studios continue to lead the pack, offering more titles than any other publisher on PlayStation®Network,” said Anatoly Tikhman, Founder and CEO of TikGames, LLC.  “As school begins and autumn approaches, we are very happy to present such an excellent value to PSN fans!”

Some of the more well known games are Smash Cars, Magic Orbz, and Hamsterball. If you have not picked up these games and would like to, head over to the PlayStation network and get the games for a great price.

The Jim and Frank Mysteries – The Blood River Files is an adventure game for the iPad and iPhone/iPod Touch. The iPad version is in HD and contains exclusive puzzles. The iPad version will cost you $2 more than the iPhone/iPod touch version. Jim and Frank head out on an adventure given to them by Jim’s grandfather. Every year on Jim’s birthday his grandfather sends him an adventure to undertake. Jim’s friend Frank has always gone on the adventure with Jim and seems to enjoy them a bit more than Jim.

The adventure game wraps players in a story and uses puzzles to progress the story line. The player will listen or read a piece of the story and then have to walk to a location. Each location walked to brings a puzzle to be solved. Some of the puzzles are easy, but some of them are very difficult. There are all types of puzzles. There are math puzzles where you have to figure out people”s ages based on a word problem of sorts. There are logic puzzles such as requiring players to board off pigs in a pen by using three pieces of rope. Players have to figure out the correct pattern to separate all of the pigs.

The puzzles are more on the difficult side and take some thought to complete. There is a hint button, but you only get three hints and the  hints. The hints provide clues on how to finish the puzzle and usually require two hints to get the answer to the puzzle. The player can buy more hints, called Eureka’s. They sell the hints in bundles. Personally, I don’t like this method of making money. Players already pay for the game and they shouldn’t be required to pay for hints. Usually, you can earn hints throughout the levels or earn items that get you hints. Some players may not mind this style of game play, but it is a turn off for me.

The graphics in the game are cartoonish, but nicely done. Each location is drawn clear and crisp. The story line keeps the game moving and keeps the player engaged. There is just enough mystery keep the player going.

Over all, The Jim and Frank Mysteries – The Blood River Files is a challenging game. If you are a player that enjoys challenging puzzles, this is definitely the game for you. The puzzles take some thought. If you are a player that gets frustrated easily, this may not be the game for you. The game does contain a good story, but without getting the puzzles solved the game will come to a halt. If you are looking for a challenging puzzle game, check out The Jim and Frank Mysteries in the Apple App Store.

Sega has dropped the price of their iPhone iterations of some of their classic Genesis and Gamecube games, be aware that these prices will go back up to normal on September 1st, so if you have a hankering to play Phantasy Star II for $3 you better jump on it now.

Sale prices:

• * Ecco the Dolphin for $0.99
• * Golden Axe for $0.99
• * Phantasy Star II for $2.99
• * Shining Force for $0.99
• * Sonic the Hedgehog for $2.99
• * Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for $2.99
• * Streets of Rage for $0.99
• * Super Monkey Ball 1 for $1.99
• * Super Monkey Ball 2 for $2.99
• * Super Monkey Ball 2: Sakura Edition (iPad) for $3.99

Let us know if you pick any of these titles up.

SpinTop Games has announced their latest hidden object game, Mystery P.I.: Stolen in San Francisco, the latest in the long-running Mystery P.I. series. As the title implies, this game takes place in the Golden Gate City.

There are three game types included with the game. In ‘Find the Stolen Gold’, the player has to find clues that will lead them to $250 Million in stolen solid gold, which had been pilfered from an armored car. The search will take the player around San Francisco, visiting sites such as the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, Haight-Ashbury, Fisherman’s Wharf, among other for a total of 25 scenes. The scenes feature over 2100 hidden objects. Collecting all the Keys & Peace Symbols unlock two bonus game modes: Unlimited Seek & Find and a Match-3 Bonus game.

“Since San Francisco is sometimes affectionately dubbed the Golden City, we thought it was the perfect setting for a gold heist. Glittering and gritty locations alike make this seek-and-find mystery a fun adventure for the whole family,” states Duncan Magee, co-director and co-founder of SpinTop. “We focused our efforts on creating the best visual locations ever to keep our millions of Mystery P.I. fans happy. We’ve always kept our artistic standards high, and I think we’ve exceeded them with Stolen in San Francisco!”

The deluxe version is available now at Spin Top Games, and will eventually be available in a few months at other game portals such as Gamehouse, MSN Gaming Zone, Pogo and Yahoo! Games.

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The venerable Worms franchise has been around since 1995, developed by Team17 as an offbeat variation on the classic Scorched Earth tank game in which you and your opponent took turns taking potshots at each other on an uneven terrain, as physics played with the calculated shots. Worms infused the genre with a wacky sense of humor, and it struck a chord with gamers.

Team17 has developed their latest in the series, Worms Reloaded, and if this was the last game ever produced in the series, it would be a marvelous tribute to the history of Worms and a fitting end to the series. This is the best game in the series, and the most fully packed.

For starters, the game looks absolutely gorgeous. The game has always featured cartoon-style graphics, but now, the images are crisp, with some fine details and smooth animation, all in loving high def. In addition, the sound has been jacked up as well – there are 70 speechbanks, 50 of which are from the previous Worms titles, and 20 all new speechbanks.

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