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When you capture a person's image with a photograph, do you also capture their being and soul?
Available from Domini Games, Mystical Riddles - Haunted Portraits is a Hidden Object Adventure offering. I have been looking at the Collector's Edition version of this product which comes bundled with a number of bonus items to help enhance the appeal of the main game. While some of the bonus items will be available immediately, others such as mini game puzzles and Hidden Object game play, are only accessible once they have been tackled in the main game.
This is not only an excellent portable speaker but also a two microphone unit that can kill other external sounds so it works well in areas that are very noisy.
The Poly Sync 10 speaker from HP measures 18x9x3cm and has a fixed USB lead of 63cm in length, the unit also comes with with a USB 'C' adapter if your PC or Notebook does not have USB. There is a start Guide sheet that shows the five touch buttons on the front of the unit and how to connect to your PC/Notebook either with USB or USB 'C'. The rear of the leaflet has where you can collect more information either from a link or a QR code.
Can you work through various scenarios to help ease any worries you may have?
With this next title. Elephant Games has opted to return to the Crossroads playing environment. Rather than the often derided television soap famous for its use of flaky scenery, the Elephant Game's take on Crossroads focusing its attention on a building that you could well walk past and ignore it completely. It is the type of building that will hide its appeal under a bushel unless it felt your needs and thus would draw you into its warm embrace.
Put your Match 3 skills to the test as you complete many levels of gem clearing action.
It is time for another visit to the colourful world of StarL as Version 5 of this product arrives. Developed by Itera Labs, this Match 3 oriented challenge spreads its challenging influence over 130 levels of grid mastery. As you travel along its journey of action, you will be expected to complete a series of individual challenges as you remove set numbers of colourful pieces of fruit while overcoming obstacles through the use of various boosters.
With no need to leave your gaming area, you can explore aspects of Alaska with this next title.
Point 8 Games would like to invite you to take part in a virtual tour of Alaska. This invitation comes in the form of the company's Vacation Paradise - Alaska Hidden Object title. This offering is available in Collector's Edition format but more on that aspect a little later. Those playing this game have a choice of playing the game in a variety of European languages. You also have the option of playing this game in a choice of Easy, Medium or Hard difficulty levels.
Its nice to wake up to something cooking and while it takes a second person to be cooking food, coffee can be automated assuming your machine has a timer, even after a bad nights sleep the smell of coffee brewing can be a good incentive to rise.
The LOOK Timer measures 35x23x20cm and everything you need to know to make coffee is available from the three buttons and small clock display to the right side of the front. At the rear is the 72cm long power cable. The majority of the front has the entry for the ground coffee at the top with the coffee pot below.
Why waste the weekend when you can spend time searching for items and solving various problems?
Combining a selection of Hidden Object game play and puzzling mini game challenges, AVI Games has developed Amazing Weekend - Search and Relax. This title is available in Collector's Edition format bundling bonus levels, extra mini game puzzles, wallpaper and a music play facility to the main game play action. These extra items become accessible once sufficient progress has been made in the main game area.
How well do you know which letters can be used to produce words?
"Love Letters" is a new release from Mixo Games' catalogue of products. While, due to its title, some might think that this offering is about those romantic missives that would dominate personal communications in the past, this title is more to do with the ability to create words using clues in the form of available letters. Some might regard this offering as being a simplified form of a part of a Scrabble board display.
Can you save Avalon from the threats that an evil witch intends to inflict on the land?
Anawiki has returned to the land of Avalon for this next game. This land of magic, powered by the Avalon Jewels, is currently under the threat of being plunged into darkness brought on by the Machinations of the evil witch Morgana. It is up to you to come to the rescue of Avalon by restoring the power of the Avalon Jewel's strength. This can be achieved through the ability of the player at completing Match 3 action in this title of Avalon Jewels 2.
This is both a large – in height and width – Desktop PC it is also rather heavy. It is marketed as a Gaming PC and two things matters for these machines speed and lack of noise this certainly has both of those.
The HP Omen 35L measures 42cm from front to back, 21cm from side to side and 42cm tall. It weights 14.5 kilos and with the box it is 18.5 kilos. After the initial boot up and setup which takes around 48 minutes including extra updates, the normal boot up is 15 seconds. The front, the left side, top and back all give a light show. The right side is solid, the left side is clear so you can see the inside. Unusually the top is not solid as it is full of tiny holes to help with ventilation.
Continuing its drive to provide the game playing community with yet another dilapidated building that has seen better days in which to perform their game playing skills, SIA LGT has released its Cursed House 14 title.
The house in question has been cursed and now contains numerous evil demons who have been able to resist other methods of removal. As a result you have been called in to use your skills at Match 3 game play and mini game puzzle solving to carry out a full spirit cleansing of the building. When playing this game, with adjustable volume levels, you can opt for Relaxed, Timed or Move restricted action when carrying out your work.
Based on the theft of a magical artifact, this next title deals with the disruption between magical creatures and normal humans.
Magic City, for those not familiar with this particular digital location, is a Domini Game's created environment. It is a place where those with a mystical power to change their shape and appearance, often into an animal-like form, can reside in harmony with the more natural members of the human race. But sometimes problems may arise. This type of event could result in you needing to show your detective skills in order to ease the situation.
When a trick goes wrong, the results might be murder.
Continuing the adventures of the detective twins of Eleanor and Randall Hamilton, Domini Games has released "The Deathly Trick". This Hidden Object Adventure offering is available in Collector's Edition format which adds a number of bonus items to supplement the challenge offered by the main game play as you join the investigation into the murder of two renowned magicians. The game allows you to make the usual Domini Games range of adjustments to the gaming environment.
Lots of people have trouble sleeping – me included – and night is a very long period of time when you are just laying there. Of course many younger ladies with young children sleep badly as they spend their time listening for their children calling or crying.
This is a piece of material is 64x19cm with a long USB lead attached to one end. The first thing you need to do is download the Withings App and once you have an account look for Sleep Analyser and when located it should be fine to place it under your mattress at somewhere near where your heart will be. There is plenty of information in the App as to how to do this. If there are two of you in a double bed then you need one each side.
Rather than creating problems, this next title allows you to put right the errors of others.
Fancy a change of occupation? If so then you might like to consider becoming an art restorer with a sideline as a general dogsbody as you also take on tasks such as tidying up a house that had been out up for sale. Offering to provide a digital test of your suitability to these kind of tasks is RestorArt - Fairwood Hills which classifies itself as a puzzle offering.
Starting with a plot of desolated land, can you build up a successful garden and associated company.
Match 3 game play has much to offer with regards to the roles to which it can be put. Recently I have seen this grid-based Match 3 format used to create routes for cats to reach food, set out a search for pirate gold and rebuild Dracula's castle. Now this format provides the basis with which to create a garden out of a desolate area in order to win a special reward showing off your skills. Garden for Glory is the name of this game developed by IKi Games.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth is the approach taken by our time travelling duo as free tickets result in another adventure.
Continuing its look at the adventures making up Amanda's Magic Book, e-Funsoft has released episode 10 of this series of Match 3 game play. In this latest episode, Amanda is partnered by her usual companion, Charlie, as the time travelling duo are transported to the 19th century Paris. Rather surprisingly, the duo's adventure are not the result of Charlie's usual bout of mischievous behaviour.
Keeping your extremities warm will help you to avoid colds or worse. Good solid shoes and thick socks, a cap or hood and scarf, and then perhaps most important – and the hardest to do – keeping your fingers warm which then help the hands and then your wrists....
These are sold as Hand Warmers which indeed they are, but they are also at least two other things. Their batteries can be used to charge other devices and the backs can give you a light show. The Hand Warmers sent to me were red and the other blue but I see they do other colours, the clear back has two 1.3x.5cm black switches, one turns on the heat and the other turns on the light show. The side has a 4.5cm rubber cover that has a raised dot at one end, this end is near the heat on/off button.
Can you put your detective skills to the test and discover who is causing problems at the Zoo?
Do you remember Ace Ventura? He was the Pet Detective of the cinematic world as played by Jim Carrey in a couple of movies. Now you can take on a similar role by becoming Artemis Wilde who has recently been appointed Zoo Detective and the lead character in Elephant Game's title of Wilde Investigations - The Zoo Kerfuffle. Classified as a Hidden Object Adventure, this game is available in Collector's Edition format with a number of bonus items to supplement the main game.
With the recent temperature conditions being endured recently in the UK, maybe your body is becoming acclimatised for this next offering.
Following excursion to Australia/New Zealand, France, Ireland and Japan to tackle Jigsaw and Swap puzzles, Tiny Little Lion turns its focus of attention to the Nordics. As with earlier titles in this puzzle solving series, you can explore over 120 images of scenes that include features of Iceland and the Norwegian fjords to challenge the player. Access to the game's content is delivered by numerous menu options as you make the necessary selections.
Delve into Criminal Archives as you attempt to solve the murder of a judge.
The Domini Games' developed Criminal Archives as a Hidden Object Adventure title. With the latest offering in the series, the Blade of Deceit casts you in the role of an elite police consultant hired to solve a shocking murder involving a body found washed up on a riverbank. The body turned out to be a judge which certainly increases the number of suspects for this crime.
This is both a Notebook and a Tablet. It is a reasonable weight so good for taking out and about with you. It is silver grey in colour.
This 2 in 1 device measures 35x22.5x1.5cm at the back, it is 1cm at the front, it weighs 1782 grams. Going around the outside has a USB3, 3.5mm socket for headphones and an SD socket on the left. The front is clear. The right side has a USB3, HDMI and two USB 'C' sockets. The back is also clear as the Notebook screen rotates through 180 degrees to become a Tablet.
For its next excursion for Vacationers. Lazy Turtle Games has directed its focus on Seattle.
Offering to take you on a visual trip to Seattle, Lazy Turtle Games has released the next title in its Amazing Vacation series. While retaining its usual features for adjusting the game's basic environment, Lazy Turtle Games has made various alterations to the way the title presents its content. You can adjust volume levels and resolution plus opt for no time limit or either a 10 or 3 minute limit restriction before tackling the new arrangement of the product's content.
Another holiday trip with a mixture of visits, puzzles and goods to find.
Continuing its Big Adventure series of offerings, the AVI Game's title of Trip To Europe 8 takes you on a voyage through 15 European countries with a mixture of Hidden Object challenges and a variety of mini game puzzles.
Battling the forces of evil, Helga returns to solve problems in the Shadowed Lands.
After a brief sabbatical following the mischievous deeds of Loki, Helga, the Viking Warrior, takes to the battleground once again in e-Funsoft's latest Match 3 offering. Entitled "Dawn of Doom", this episode 5 of the Helga saga has our heroine entering the shadowed lands of Svartalheim. Along with her companions, she will need to investigate the changes in the resident Dwarfs' behaviour as a dark force threatens all the realms of Valhava.
When is a trick, not a trick? Maybe when it involves the game of Solitaire.
I must admit that the title of this next game initially caused me a certain amount of confusion regarding its content. My first thoughts on seeing the title "Trick Solitaire" were that I was about to learn more about card manipulation and some so-called tricks. But I was mistaken.
Can your Match 3 skills prove sufficient to help Dracula rebuild his home?
Suricate Software's latest excursion into the world of Jewel Match game play focuses on the Lord of Darkness and Dracula's efforts to create a fortress worthy of his status. Available in Collector's Edition format, this title combines mini game puzzles, fortress construction and various special abilities with regards to the tiles appearing in the game.
With its expanding family, members of the Homes family continue to solve crimes.
While this next title might indicate that its character of Ms Holmes might be returning from her adventures in the AVIGOR's Detective Agency offering. However this is not true. This particular Ms Holmes is o the one featured in the Elephant Games "The Dancing Men" offering. To help reduce confusion, this Ms Holmes is Sharotte Holmes rather than AVIGOR's Sharon Holmes.
This is the latest powerful offering from Philips suitable for all uses. Marketed for workers as it has fast reactions as well as great colour and wonderful Blacks whose differential might well save your life for those playing games.
This Philips monitor measures 61x36x2.5cm, it can be raised between 11cm and 17cm from your desk from the 20cm square stand. The sides and top are only about .5cm with the bottom being 2cm. There is no web cam on this unit. The diagonal screen measurement is 68cm which is almost exactly 27 inches. There are five rectangular control buttons mounted to the right edge of the base with a white LED beyond them that shines whenever power is going to the panel. On the back 9.
Continuing the Paranormal Files series, Elephant Games has released the latest episode in the search for the original version of Rick Rogers before they became involved in alternative universe and multiple versions of himself.
On returning to the multi-dimensional environment that houses the Paranormal Files, you can make adjustments to elements of the gaming environment inhabited by the game play of Counterpart. Volume levels can be set for music, sound effects, environment and the dialogue delivered by voice actors. You can also adjust the gamma level of brightness.
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