Category Archives: Puzzler

Splinter Cell: Blacklist is getting an iOS game which will star the Spider-Bots which are in the game, running around gathering intelligence. The app is now available free on the App Store, and is a 2D puzzler where you control your spider-bot as it gathers intel and try avoiding other robotic spies, guards, and turrets. Planned future updates include “Stealth-Bot” and “Strike-Bot” modes, and special content for Blacklist. Thanks: Shack, Touch Arcade. Splinter Cell: Blacklist is out August 20 on PC, PS3, Wii U and Xbox 360.

Pipe Trouble developer Pop Sandbox Production and Publishing was accused of advocating eco-terrorism in its mobile strategy game. Following an independent review of the claims, the title has now been cleared for release on iOS and Android devices.

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Escape Goat 2 will allow players to move back and forth between multiple single-screen rooms as they solve new kinds of puzzles.

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Teslagrad, the side-scrolling puzzler from Rain Games, has been announced for Wii U.

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The Cave is heading to iOS formats, and Sega will be handling porting duties for Ron Gilbert’s subterranean adventure-puzzler.

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Although it was announced as a downloadable release only, Capcom may bring Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies to retail in the west if it sees enough demand.

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Missed out on Alexander Bruce’s mind bending puzzler Antichamber? You’re in luck, because the non-euclidean puzzler is only $10 on Steam today, down 50% from its normal price.

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indiePub Entertainment and Namco Bandai has announced the release of Storm for Xbox Live.

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Curve Studios has announced that when Stealth Inc launches, the Teleporter Chambers level pack containing 20 new levels, will be available at release. The pack puts “a radical spin” on Stealth Inc’s gameplay, and forces the player to think strategically in order to beat its mind-bending puzzles. Also, two new DLC level packs for Stealth Inc will be debuting exclusively on PS3 and Vita later this year. So that is goo news for puzzle fans. Find out more on the PS Blog.

Master Reboot is an adventure horror title with puzzle elements up on Steam Greenlight for your consideration. The game revolves around something called a Soul Cloud, where you can “upload your soul to our dedicated servers and relax knowing that a part of you will live on for eternity”. Sounds creepy. A teaser trailer for it is below. A gameplay trailer is promised soon. Thanks, PC Gamer.

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From the makers of Auditorium comes the DNA-themed puzzler which delayed its sequel. Splice is headed to PlayStation 3, and has spawned a new trailer to celebrate E3.

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Indie Royale and Arcen Games have released the Arclight Bundle, which starting at $5.43 nets you PC and Mac keys on Steam and Desura for: A Valley Without Wind, A Valley Without Wind 2, Shattered Haven, Tidalis, and AI War: Fleet Command. The later contains all four expansions released, and promises the fifth – the upcoming Vengeance of the Machine available in beta and playable for bundle owners. If you pay $8 or more you will also get nine original soundtracks by Arcen composer Pablo Vega along with the Deorbit album from Disasterpeace. Hit up the link to purchase the bundle and find out more information. As always, a video for the compilation is below.

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Beep games seems to have dropped a couple of words off the end of Ron Gilbert’s newgame, which launches today, leaving it with the comparatively modest 11 word “Scurvy Scallywags in The Voyage to Discover the Ultimate Sea Shanty”.

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Tiny Brains is in development for PS4, according to a PS Blog post from Spearhead Games.

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Mighty Switch Force! 2 will be released on the eShop for 3DS next week on June 13 in North America and on June 27 in Europe. To celebrate, WayForward has released an awesome trailer for it. Just be sure to turn your speakers down a bit. Enjoy below.

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Tetris designer Alexey Pajitnov has risen from his bed of laurels to produce a new mobile puzzle game. If his track record is anything to go by, you probably want to get all over this right now.

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PopCap has released two shots of some sort of cross-over project for Plants vs. Zombies. Both shots were posted on Facebook: “Grass Effect” and “Dead Face”, teasing Mass Effect and Dead Space, respectively. The developer states to expect to hear more on this in June during E3. EA’s press event is on June 10 so we’re likely find out more then. Shots are below.

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99 Spirits is the medieval RPG puzzler from Japanese indie dev TORaIKI. It launches in the West today on PC, and we’ve got a batch of launch screens to go with it.

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Rain is the inventive new game from Sony Japan Studio. Announced last year, the team has posted a new trailer called ‘Two Silhouettes’ that shows the game’s star – an invisible boy – as he searches for a lost girl in a city battered by endless rainfall. Check out the clip here.

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Developer Frogmind has updated its gorgeous mobile effort Badland with ten new levels. The free set of challenges is called “Dawn” and a further update called “Noon” is expected in late June or early July. Badland is available on the App Store at $4 or regional equivalent. It has attracted 150,000 players to date.

Thanks, Joystiq.