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With the recent temperature conditions being endured recently in the UK, maybe your body is becoming acclimatised for this next offering.
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.
Journey to Canada and help protect an endangered species from a variety of attacks.
Myth or Reality – Snowbound Secrets is a Hidden Object Adventure game. Domini Games, the product’s developer, has opted to place this particular offering in Northern Canada. Available in Collect’s Edition format, this title comes with a collection of bonus items to supplement the gaming experience.
With numerous themes, there are puzzles aplenty to keep your solving skills a work out.
Combining themes with a range of puzzle types, AVI Games has developed the second version of its title of Lots of Things offering. By creating profiles, different people can play the game with adjustable volume levels for music and sound effects. The game can be viewed in either full screen or windows mode with a custom cursor and a tutorial feature that can be turned off if not required. The game presents its range of puzzle types into a variety of themes.
Computer images are constructed of pixels that you can work with to colour templates.
Pixel Art 15 is the latest offering to join the Paint by Numbers genre of image colouring titles. Developed by T1 Games this particular title gets the would-be artist to concentrate on images formed from individual pixels rather than groups of pixels which have been split into sections.
Can you help a cat deal with pirates and smugglers when recuing an undercover investigator?
Catstown, once again, becomes the centre of action as Elephant Games returns to the feline world of the home for Knight Cats. This latest episode is entitled Waves on the Water and it is available in Collector’s Edition format. With this format you get a number of bonus items to enhance the main game play which can be tackled in a choice of Casual, Advanced, Hardcore or Custom difficulty level.
Another batch of outline images to colour in as you impress others at your so-called artistic skills.
Fans of the Pop Art series of titles will no doubt be pleased to hear that T1 Games has released the next title in the series with its Pop Art 5 title. As with the earlier offerings in this series, this latest version follows a similar pattern with its Paint by Number product, Pop Art 5 is built around a number of outline sketches that can be coloured in using a numbered colour palette. Appropriate tools come supplied with the product to produce the finished images.
This is the latest printer, scanner and copier from HP. Quite small while still being able to print, copy and scan A4 documents. This is the second of their recent pay by the page offerings I have used, after three months of unlimited use up to 700 pages, extra cartridges will arrive before yours are empty.
The is a 3 in 1 unit measuring 42x36x21cm add 14cm to the second figure the depth when you have extended the page catcher. The weight of the unit is just over 6kilos. You can manually turn it on/off via a push button back left of the unit near the power lead, however you can set it up to automatically turn off after a set period of time. Manual start up is just over one minute, manual shut down around 10 seconds.
With a mayor called Greedy, the town of Christmashire could benefit from your assistance.
Christmas Fables - The Wishing Store is a Hidden Object Adventure game that is available in Collector's Edition format. As part of the Domini Games' extensive catalogue of titles, this offering provides the usual options for adjusting the game's playing environment. Volume levels for different audio aspects, viewing size and special effects can all be set to suit your preferences. You also have a choice of Casual, Advanced, Hardcore or Custom difficulty level of game play.
Along with scaring away birds maybe these countryside mannequins are there to keep a watch on us.
When walking through a partially harvested cornfield, if you encounter a scarecrow that appears to have escaped from a horror film, what do you do? This is the challenge you are about to face you as you enter the world of City Legends – The Witness in the Rye, a Hidden Object Adventure game from the extensive catalogue of Domini Games titles.
Join a treasure hunt for a pirate treasure as you complete multiple levels of Match 3 game play.
Based on the Jewel Board concept of game play, SQRTS has come up with the Jewel Quest Match 3 Adventure title. As the game’s title might indicate, this offering brings together elements of Adventure and Match 3 type game play with the action being wrapped into a treasure hunt with all that this entails. Usually with a game of this genre you might be expecting to face around 100 or 120 levels of Match 3 action but that is not the case with this title.
Puzzles and mini games will be the challenge faced when entering an underwater environment.
The development team at Point 8 Games certainly enjoys producing titles based on puzzle solving. This next title from the company is no exception. Sea Life Explorer takes the player on an adventure based on an underwater theme as, level after level, the player is faced by a series of puzzles of varying types to test their puzzle solving skills.
Legends can sometimes give you a distorted view of pass events.
Delve into the realms of ancient Legends and you might come across a magical world that exists under the threat of a Giant Wolf swallowing the moon. This event would, not unnaturally, bring about the destruction of the world and its magical ability. This is the premise and opening sequence of the Friendly Fox offering entitled Immortal Love – Polar Lights. Available in Collector’s Edition format, this title comes with a number of bonus items to supplement the main game.
To borrow a phrase from elsewhere, “Who do you call when the need to solve a crime that involves murder, robbery and hidden secrets?”
Instead of the Ghostbusters switching their field of expertise and focus, the answer to the question concerns a relative of the now retired Sherlock Holmes who steps onto centre stage and fronts AWIGOR’s Detective Agency Mosaics title. In this game you adopt the role of Sharon Holmes, the daughter of the legendary Victorian detective, who is keen to show off her talents when called upon to unravel a series of crimes that form the basis of this next title.
In less than nine months Microsoft stops supporting Windows 10. The HP Spectre X360 is both a very nice Notebook and if you turn the screen through 180 degrees it is an excellent Tablet. In either mode you have Touchscreen ability.
This was a brand new unit which took 35 minutes from switch on till you have answered all Microsoft's questions and done the required updates. I then found close to 50 files in 'updates' after around another 30 minutes I saw a number of the updates had been completed and several others required a restart. After I went to restart it decided I needed a BIOS update and after that a Firmware update. When I checked the updates I found everything completed so almost 50 updates in a hour.
Play your cards right and you may set up a prospective business.
Solitaire continues to be a popular subject for new entries in the computer gaming release schedules. The latest such entry to come my way is entitled Solitaire Quest – Love Blossoms. Using the popular Solitaire method of removing various card layouts by creating chains of cards that are one higher or lower than the previous selection, the story line of this game is based around building up a flower store on a tropical paradise island.
Can you help the Anderson family enjoy Christmas by replacing their festive decorations?
Spread over 100 festive holiday levels, the Ironcode Gaming developed release of Christmas Yarn 3 Match 3 title is available in Collector's Edition format. Offering a choice of language versions (English, French or German) with fast or high quality graphics, endless play with time or limited moves, this game can be tackled in Casual or Expert difficulty mode as you assist the Anderson family celebrate Christmas even though their festive decorations have mysteriously disappeared.
With locations to visit and puzzles to solve, this next game can help occupy your time.
Wishing you a Happy Holiday's greeting, GameOn Production has developed a mixture of puzzle challenges that have been spread over various locations. This game is available with adjustable volume levels for music and sound effects plus full screen viewing with a custom cursor and a choice of English, French or German language for playing the game. Covering six precise locations, the game will then deliver five puzzles of different types at each of its locations.
Cats like to explore whatever locations they find themselves in but perhaps not during Christmas
While the "Christmas" (stating the overall theme) and "Meow" (two cats are involved), I have no explanation for the "Suddenly" part of this game's title. You can make up your own mind as to the reason IKi Games decided on the wording for this title. Suddenly Meow Christmas is classified as a Match 3 title that casts you in the role of Mary who takes her two pet cats with her when visiting her Grandma's house.
With a choice of adjustable settings puzzles, you can discover more about the village of Evergreen.
Continuing its Jigsaw Lovers series, Revills Games has released a Christmas based offerings. As with the earlier entries in this series, this Christmas title is built around a story featuring numerous images that can be used as the source material for four different types of puzzle formats operating with user-defined settings. When starting this game, there is a wide range of selectable features including an option to set up profiles allowing different people to partake of this title.
With mirrors recording the crimes, can you solve who is responsible?
Mystery Case Files - A Crime in Reflection is a Hidden Object Adventure game from the Grandma stable of titles. This review is based on the Collector's Edition version of the title which adds a number of bonus items to supplement the main game of investigation game play. When playing this game you have the choice of tackling its content in Casual, Advanced, Hardcore or Custom difficulty level.
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