Angry Birds Now on Windows 7 Phone

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Rovio had been angry at Microsoft prematurely announcing that Angry Birds would be coming to the Windows 7 Phone, but not too angry, as the publisher has officially announced the game for the platform.

The game is now available on the Zune marketplace for $2.99.

Angry Birds has recently hit 200M downloads, and when it comes to Facebook, look out.

Jessica’s BowWow Bistro Released

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GameHouse has announced that Jessica’s BowWow Bistro, the sequel to Jessica’s Cupcake Café, is now available on their site exclusively for two weeks. The time-management game is basically Diner Dash aimed at kids.

In Jessica’s BowWow Bistro, Jessica expands her restaurant biz by founding a series of bakeries that cater to doggie pets. The game has the player placing and fulfilingl kitchen orders, baking doggie delicacies made from real life organic recipes, creating menus, and earning cash to get upgrades and expand the bistro before time runs out. As is the staple of the time-management genre, the player has to do this within an allotted amount of time. The game features over 50 levels.

System Requirements

* Windows 7/Windows XP/Windows Vista
* 1 GHz Pentium 3 or equivalent
* 1024MB RAM
* DirectX 9.0

Jessica’s BowWow Bistro is currently available at GameHouse here, and will go into wide release on July 13, 2011.

Grim Facade: Mystery of Venice Now Available

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Big Fish is announcing that the latest hidden object game Grim Facade, Mystery of Venice is now available, with a Collector’s Edition that adds a bunch of new extras.

Grim Facade is a mystery game in which you must find two young ladies who vanished from a masquerade ball in Venice. They were last seen in a gondola, whose gondolier was wearing the mask of Medico Della Peste, which is better known as that creepy plague mask doctors used to wear, making them resemble grim birds. As the players chases the gondolier, the mysterious man tries to slow and sabotage the players pursuit with hidden object games, as well as other, more traditional puzzle and adventure game mechanics.

The Collector’s Edition includes bonus gameplay content, wallpapers, a screensaver and an integrated walkthrough guide. You can check out the Collector’s Edition or try the demo here.

Alpha Polaris Released

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German developer Turmoil Games has announced the release of their scary horror adventure game Alpha Polaris, which is set in the Arctic tundra of Greenland at an American oil research station.

According to Turmoil Games project leader Teemu Vilén:

 “The heart of the game is its restrained horror setting. It allows us to explore a wide range of human themes in a realistic way: paranoia, isolation, friendship, love and so on. To us, that is the core of a good horror adventure.”

The game is available in both English and German language versions from the official site here, as well as a demo in each language as well.

Boulder Bridge Now Available

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FromPix has announced a new physics game for iOS devices including the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch, Boulder Bridge.

The object of the game is to protect your city from a volcano spewing out smoking boulders by creating an indestructible bridge. The game offers complete freedom of construction to test various designs and styles to withstand the assault of firey waves of falling rocks, and the results are determined by the game’s physics engine.

The game features:

* An intuitive and catchy gameplay
* An easy to learn Integrated tutorial
* Game Center functionality: online ranking & achievements
* A challenge mode updated on a regular basis
* Multiple levels with increasing difficulty

Boulder Bridge can be downloaded from iTunes here for 99 cents for all iOS devices.

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