Alawar has announced the release of Farm Frenzy: Gone Fishing for the PC. The goal of the game is to raise exotic fish and manufactures never-before-seen products. Players get to take on a different role and instead of raising farm animals and making products produced from farm animals, players are raising fish. The game is a time management style game.

Players take on the role of Scarlett that has been given an island farm in recognition of her hard work. The farm has a huge pond in the middle of the land. Scarlett decides to make the most of the pond and starts raising fish and making goods to export. Everything is going good until Scarlett makes a discovery that turns her world upside down.

The game contains six new animals, 90 new levels, new products, new buildings and an all new Endless Mode.

“Farm Frenzy: Gone Fishing is sure to please fans angling for something exciting and new,” says Kirill Plotnikov, vice president of publishing at Alawar.  “We think players are going to love the tropical island setting and get a kick out of the sea horses, dolphins and sharks, which our animators have brought to colorful and vivid life.”

If you like time management games, head over to Alawar and check out Farm Frenzy: Gone Fishing.

Avanquest Software has announced the upcoming release of Witches Curse for the Nintendo DS. The game was originally released on the PC and has been adapted for the Nintendo DS. Nintendo DS owners will have to complete 40 different puzzles and 15 mini-games all set in magical backgrounds.

Princess Isabella has returned from a trip to find out an evil curse has been put on the castle. The curse has turned everyone in the castle into mirrors. The players take on the role of Isabella and fight the evil witch that has cursed the castle. The player does have a fairy that will be helping them battle the witch. Players have to search the castle for broken mirror pieces. The pieces have to be put back together to release the people from the curse.

If you are looking for a hidden object game/puzzle game for the Nintendo DS, check out Witches Curse.

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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.

Astraware announced the release of Astraware Sudoku and OddBlob for WebOS. The games will initially work on the Palm Pre and Pre Plus, with support coming for the Pixi later on. Both releases keep with the long standing tradition of Astraware games on Palm devices.

Astraware Sudoku is a Sudoku game packed with features, including a puzzle of the day. Each day there is a new puzzle to be downloaded and solved. After players solve the puzzle, they can upload their times to the leader board to see how they compete with other players.  OddBlob is a puzzle-arcade game created from modeling clay, and featuring online leader boards for players to post their high scores in both Strategy and Panic modes.

“We’re delighted to be re-establishing our long-term relationship with Palm, and supporting the new platform with a range of great casual games,” said Howard Tomlinson, CEO of Astraware. “Our experience at supporting well-featured devices in a range of sizes and resolutions has helped us to make our first webOS games a pleasure to play, and we look forward to bringing many more titles to the platform.”

Astraware will be releasing other games for WebOS in the future, as well.

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Legacy Games has taken on the challenge of turning Criminal Minds into a compelling casual game. The Criminal Minds TV show is a dark cop show that deals with spooky and heavy content. The challenge is attempting to fit those concepts into a game that casual gamers want to play.

The TV show takes place in different places within the episode. The designer of the game has decided to set the game in three distinct locations too. The game will take place in Texas, Florida and the Pacific Northwest. Players travel to those places as they attempt to track down the killers. The plot lines will be compelling and keep the players coming back for more game play, but not too compelling that they get spooked by playing.

Criminal Minds for PC/MAC will be a casual adventure/ hidden object game, which is slated to be released in December.

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