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Offering to add colour to monochrome sketches, this next product concentrates on pixels.
Paint by Pixel 2 is the follow up offering to Tiny Little Lion title that is, not surprisingly, also named Paint by Pixel. As with the similarly named Paint by Numbers concept, the Tiny Little Lion offering is built around the means to colour in pre-drawn sketches using a supplied selective palette. When applying colour to the chosen sketch, you will need to be targeting areas of linked pixels rather than numbered sections.
While Spring may have "come and gone", you can still instigate a clear out of unwanted items.
Last year I took a look at Tiny Little Lion's game of So Much Stuff. This was a Hidden Object title featuring a range of puzzle type tasks. Now I have the opportunity to check out the latest version of this offering with So Much Stuff 3. As with the original offering, this version 3 is available in Collector's Edition format. This brings together various bonus items bundled with the main game play.
With its modern day settings, this next title has more than a touch of old-fashioned game play.
Ironcode Gaming would like to introduce you to its latest gaming creation of Kaya Joshi. This young lady is a private detective who is the central character of Ironcode Gaming's Magic Detective title. This is a Hidden Object Adventure offering. With this game you will be invited to join Kaya Joshi as she responds to a call from a police officer friend regarding the disappearance of a young boy from an area that is best known for its strong gangster control connection.
With a gem of an idea, this next title takes you on a nightmarish journey of facing the dead in a remastered title.
The Other Side - Tower of Souls, originally published by Alawar, is a Hidden Object title that has been remastered by Tiki's Lab. Available in Collector's Edition format, this excursion into a dreamlike environment is based on a tower that no longer exists yet requires your expertise to combat the various problems in will bring to everywhere. Once upon a time, as generally occurs in a tale of a certain genre, there was a tower that belonged to wizards.
This is the latest offering from Poly, the headset can be be connected via Bluetooth or corded. While it is a headset the microphone slides out of the way to allow use as a set of headphones, the quality of sound is excellent with plenty of bass.
The headset is quite light at 171 grams, it is 16cm from the centre of the base of the cups to the padded headband and there is an extra 3cm each side if required and up to 14cm width to get the headband cups parallel. The microphone can move down either side and you can choose which side of the back of the cups answer or end calls and which side increases or decreases the volume. In corded mode you just plug in the USB to USB 'C' cable and you can then listen to music etc.
Fans of the outdoor life can improve their nature skills with this next offering from @Casual Arts.
Continuing with its popular topic, @Casual Arts has released the next offering in its Vacation Adventure Park Ranger series. Now up to version 16, this Hidden Object and puzzle solving title takes you along National Park Trails to see what you can find as you develop your outdoor skills within the Pinecreek Hills area.
Let numbers take the strain as you produce works of art with this next title.
T1 continues its drive to inspire the hidden artist concealed within each and everyone of us. The latest thrust in the company's campaign is entitled Modern Art 14. Like the company's recent offerings, this release is based on the concept of Paint by Numbers when trying to impress friends and family members with your ability to produce full colour scenes of "your" art work.
While hardly qualifying as spring cleaning, a vacancy exists for somebody to remove unwanted mischievous spirits from houses with a history.
SIA LGT has returned to the company's drive to clear certain mansions from unwanted residents who have taken over old buildings. The results of SIA LGT's latest effort can be seen in the release of Cursed House 13, a Match 3 title with over 100 levels of activity that can sometimes require brain twisting logic while achieving tasks. You will also need to solve various mini game puzzles.
This is the latest offering from HP that is both a Notebook and a Tablet as such there is of course touch screen either by finger or for those who need great accuracy a pen type device is supplied.
The HP Envy x360 measures 30.5x21.5x1.5cm the last figure at the rear while the front is only 1cm thick. The left side has USB, HDMI and two USB 'C'. The front is clear as is the back as the screen goes through 360 degrees to become a Tablet. The right side has 3.5mm socket and a USB. The base has ventilation and the speakers which still have good volume when used as a conventional Notebook.
When is a flower not a flower? The answer is when it is not the required flower.
Available in Collector's Edition format, Royal Romances - Cursed Hearts is a Hidden Object Adventure title from the Domini Games catalogue of offerings. Spread over three chapters, plus various bonus items, this game is set in a magical world inhabited by strange creatures and a reliance of magic potions.
As home to the Walker family, Animalville is an environment that is constantly improving.
For their 22nd edition of their Shopping Clutter series, Jet Dogs Studio has turned its focus to the area of Haute Couture. As usual with this series, this game is based on the virtual world of Animalville and the work of the Walker family. Since the last excursion into this environment, Animalville now has its own upmarket shopping mall and the Walker family feel that the launch of a new feature would provide an ideal boost to the new mall.
According to an old-wives tale, Elephants are meant to be scared of mice. Believe it or not, this might explain why Elephant Games' latest title features cats as the central characters.
Knight Cats - Leaves in the Road is a Hidden Object Adventure game that is available in Collector's Edition format. The usual set of adjustment options can be applied when playing this game. Various volume levels, including voice used by the cat characters, can be adjusted, with the game being viewed in full and/or wide screen mode using an adjustable gamma setting.
This is the latest offering from Emporia, this company are best known for Smart Phones suitable for older people as they do not assume you know how to use it and as an added bonus they have an emergency button on the back that circles though up to five friends/neighbours and relatives until an answer is received.
The measures 16-5x7.5x1cm and weighs 210 grams. The corner to corner measurement is 6.58inches. It has a 2.3GHz Octa-Core processor and has 128GB of memory and 6GB RAM. It runs Android 13 and has a 4,900mAh battery. The front facing selfie camera is 8MP while the three vertical in line cameras on the rear boasts a 50MP main camera. The power button is also a fingerprint reader for ease of access.
Rebuilding a piece of history may not be considered beyond your capability with the aid of this next title.
Suricate Software has a habit of developing games that feature a building construction element. This next title from the company definitely falls into this category as you are provided with the means to design and build the fabled Camelot Castle while completing a series of Match 3 challenges and solving a selection of mini game puzzles.
AVI Games has continued with its affection for Raccoons and Hidden Object game play with the release of its next title.
Appropriately named Lots of Things, this title is available in Collector's Edition format with a number of bonus items bundled with the main action and content plus a number of Raccoons to collect. Rather than give the player a choice with regards to difficulty levels, the game mixes together a choice of Hidden Object game play and various types of puzzles. These have been grouped into specific categories dealing with certain subject matter.
The enclosed environment seems to be the ideal place to commit a crime especially when it involves murder.
Fancy a train journey? You will, of course, be expected to perform certain tasks as you enjoy this trip into the unknown. In your role as an eminent detective you will be required to examine the body of a dead woman and then investigate her murder in order to catch the killer. Basically you have to follow the clues laid out in set path through the game of Hidden Object Legends - Deadly Love.
Do you own some photos that you would like to improve without spending a lot of money to either have it done professionally or via some rather expensive software that probably assumes you know more than you actually do? If this is the case then this software could be the answer.
While sometimes a crime is committed by the Butler, this time you appear to be the main suspect.
With this next offering in its Grim Tales series, Elephant Games casts you in the role of Anna Grey, an investigator of all-things paranormal. Initially assigned to investigate the break-in and trashing of the content of a souvenir shop, you are quickly faced by evidence that clearly indicates that you are the prime suspect and thus you will need to clear your own name before moving on to discover the real culprit and the reason for the crime.
What would you do if when you looked in the mirror, you saw the face of your enemy? The answer could well be found in this next game from the Mystery Case Files.
Developed by the team at Grandma, the Mystery Case files - The Dalimar Legacy is a Hidden Object Adventure, This review is based on the Collector's Edition version of the title which bundles a number of bonus offerings to supplement the main gaming action. While some of the bonus items are available immediately, others, such as a Jigsaw puzzle, mini games and Hidden Object scenes, require progress to be made in the main game before re-entry later.
Are you ready to join the battle and stop the Necromancer from destroying the Universe in e-Funsoft's latest Match 3 title?
Adding to its stream of Match 3 titles, e-Funsoft has released Alchemy Odyssey - Rise of the Shadow. This latest entry in the company's Match 3 offerings, pits the combined forces of elves, dwarves, hobbit and an alchemist, called Elara, against the Necromancer and those under its control in a fantasy quest. Available to different players through the use of profiles, the game can be played in either Relaxed or Timed mode as you complete challenges spread over 72 Match 3 levels.
In around 18 months Microsoft will end support for Windows 10 so now is the time to start looking for a suitable Windows 11 machine. This offering from Acer in the Aspire series supports 'the earth' by using more suitable components, they name this feature VERO.
It is 35x25x2cm the last figure at the back while the front is only a little over 1cm thick and it weighs 1845 grams. Going around the outside has two USB 'C' an HDMI and USB socket, the front is clear, the right side has two LED's, 3.5mm audio socket, USB and Kensington socket. The rear is clear. The base has four 2x.5cm green bars to keep the base clear of whatever you rest it on and to improve ventilation, there are also two speaker outputs near the front.
If you play your cards right, you could save the world from a dangerous virus.
One popular feature found in the various releases of Windows has to be the Solitaire card game of Freecell. In the past I have spend many hours playing this game of card manipulation to produce four suits of cards stacked in piles from the Ace upwards. Sad-to-say my Freecell playing sessions have been reduced considerable in more recent times for a variety of reasons.
Are you ready to tackle a world where cats have wings and a turtle is your mode of transport.
As an expert at locating missing people, you have to be always ready to spring into action when the need arises. You will not be surprised to hear that this time has arrived when you will be employed to find a missing person. In this case you are to find a professor who has disappeared while working with a team of archaeologists exploring the Egyptian temple of Abu Gorab.
Continuing its Finding America series, Boom Zap takes us to the Great Lakes.
While the UK has an attraction known as the Lake District, America takes its version of the attraction several steps further with its Great Lakes offering. Boom Zap has targeted this particular area of the American continent for this next title in its Finding America series and the subject of this review. Available in Collector's Edition format, this product comes with a choice of difficulty levels.
Laundry is something everyone does and like most people I tend to buy one of the advertised brands here is something different that could be the answer, it starts by costing less than most, and assuming it gets things clean and without irritation then for me its well on the way to being on my shopping list.
The first thing you will notice is that the egg once filled with the tiny balls is stated to work for 25 washes, very different from throwing in a single multi coloured package that you never see again as I assume it melts away during the wash.
Are your memories of childhood adventure true or not? Step back in time to relive past experiences and you might find out.
A Haunted House is the setting for this next title from DIGIMIGHT. Described as a mystery puzzle, this game is based on a brother and sister who find themselves reluctantly returning to the old home where their grandfather had lived. Memories were beginning to surface and the siblings were keen to discover whether the ghostly encounters they had witness during their earlier visits were imagination or not.
You are given the job of stopping a winged monster from feeding on the souls of the men in a village.
Cursed Fables - Twisted Tower is a Hidden Object Adventure game. This review is based on the Collector's Edition version of this title from Elephant Games. In this title you are cast in the role of Genhelia, an apprentice witch, who is hoping to be accepted into the local coven. Normally this would be a straightforward process but the waters have been muddied somewhat by the earlier actions of your mother who had been accused of committing crimes against the coven.
Overseas trips can be challenging and educational as well as fun. They can also test your puzzle solving skills.
For this next mixture of possible holiday locations to visit while solving a selection of puzzles, Tiny Little Lion has opted to take players Down Under to the land of kangaroos and kiwis. As with earlier titles in this particular series, various decisions can be made regarding the game playing environment to enjoy gaining info about the locations and selecting the puzzles to solve.
For those who do not want a full size screen but still want to use everything that a modern Smart Phone has and the help that older people and those whom this is their first Smart Phone need this offering from Emporia may fit the bill.
The measures 13.5x6.5x.7cm and weighs 159 grams. This smaller size may suit those with smaller hands as a larger Smart Phone may be difficult to balance easily. Boot up once setup is complete is only 21 seconds so this might encourage people to turn it off at night.
By following the numbers, you can create pop art images.
Continuing with its Painting by Numbers theme, T1 Games' latest release is Pop Art 3. As with some of its previous offerings, this particular title provides you with the appropriate tools needed to take an outline sketch and add the correct colours to its sections to produce a digital image. Allowing different people to use this Paint by Numbers package, you can create profiles that will record the progress made by individual novice artists.
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