Category Archives: Puzzler

Q.U.B.E, the first game to come from the Indie Fund-ed, recouped most of its production costs in its first four days on sale, selling 12,000 units. This is according to the Indie Fund Blog, where it confirmed that developer Toxic Games repaid an investment of $90,000, with a budget previously estimated on $42,000. The post added that discussions were already taking place on taking the game elsewhere outside PC, although there are no details yet.

Thanks, Joystiq.

RPS writer Jim Rossignol has posted a video of upcoming Big Robot puzzler Avseq, as you’ll see below. It shows the game’s hardest stage, according to Rossignol. He noted it’ll be released for PC and Mac “in the next couple of weeks, with demo.”

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Start your Monday morning off right, by installing a haunting indie platformer on your workplace Mac and hurriedly putting spreadsheets over it when the boss passes.

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Namco has released a prolouge video for Touch My Katamari, showing the Vita title’s story through a “terrifying revelation uncovered by the King of All Cosmos.” Apparently, the king has been made aware his “level of cool is now only on par with something he simply won’t stand for.” Interesting. Check out the video below. The game is out February 22 in North America and Europe.

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Nintendo has updated its eShop, DSiWare and WiiWare offerings with Zen Pinball 3D, a title which allows you to create music, and a math programs with Carmen Sandiego as your instructor.

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2D Boy has announced World of Goo has been downloaded 1 million times on iOS and through the Mac App Store since it was released 13 months ago. The firm said 29% of downloads and 17% of revenue came from the World of Goo’s iPhone/iPod Touch version, and 69% of downloads and 79% of revenue were from the HD Universal edition with iPad support. The Mac App store version made up 2% of total downloads and 4% of total revenue. Meanwhile, the Andorid version released back in November has been downloaded 450,000 times as a free demo, while the full version has been downloaded 70,000 times. Thanks, Gamasutra.

Major Nelson has posted a look at upcoming content for the Xbox Live Marketplace, kicking off today with a demo for Capcom’s Asura’s Wrath, available now for Gold members. A demo for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning will also be made available next week on January 17.

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Noby Noby Boy players helped his counterpart, GIRL, reach the planet Uranus last week. Juvenile jokes on the achievement aside, it is quite a feat, as GIRL reached Jupiter back in November 2009 before moving on to Saturn. Next up, is Neptune, which depending on how the planets are aligned at the time is another 911,453,788 miles at best, and 4,679,048,095 miles at its farthest. Thanks, Kotaku.

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Zynga has launched its hidden object game, fittingly titled Hidden Chronicles, through Facebook. The game is set in a Victorian estate and is in a similar vein to Playdom’s Gardens of Time which boasts 7.6 million MAU. Hidden Chronicles was announced
in October, and is the first new title from the social game maker since going public in late 2011. A video for the game is posted below. Thanks, Gamasutra.

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Nintendo has updated its eShop, DSiWare and WiiWare offerings with UFO Interactive’s Samurai Sword Destiny, arcade survival title Zombii Attack, and an action-adventure, puzzle-based RPG.

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Ubisoft has sent over an updated release schedule of titles slated for 2012, and it looks as though double packs for Assassin’s Creed, Rainbow Six Vegas, Splinter Cell and Far Cry 2 are on the way in March.

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Warner Interactive has officially announced TT Games is developing LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes, after various rumors and speculation over the last couple of months.

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The winning entry in 2009′s Dream.Build.Play competition, Dust: An Elysian Tail, will be released on Xbox Live Arcade this year, according to developer Dean Dodrill. The lovely, side-scrolling, action-RPG should be completed during the first half of the year, and more updates on the title are to be revealed in the months leading up to release. It’s announcement trailer is posted below the break. Thanks: IndieGames, Joystiq.

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Sony has provided a look at what’s in store for PS Plus members during January, and the deals start this week Back to the Future: The Game – Full Series from Telltale absolutely free.

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Nintendo has updated its eShop, DSiWare and WiiWare offerings today with GameBoy’s Tetris, a sports title, and and action-adventure, hidden-object title about vampires.

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We have absolutely nothing else to add other than the video is below the break, via IGN. The game’s out as a launch title for Vita in Europe on February 22.

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What’s utterly gorgeous, a blast in co-op, and soon to be available everywhere, on nearly everything? Trine 2.

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Finnish developer 10tons got in touch this morning to let us know that newly-released iOS puzzler Swingworm has been discounted from $2.99 to $0.99 today. The sale is “limited,” so get on it. It’s a simple thing where you drag the head and tail of a worm around levels to grab fruit. In addition, griddy puzzle game Azkend is free for iPhone right now. Grab this quick. I played the sequel in Tampere in Finland last week, and could hardly put it down. Do it: the lack of cost won’t last for long.

Do puzzle games need stories? Crush 3D has one, and this story introduces it while also giving you a run down on the Sega 3DS exclusive’s gameplay.

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Sony has released ten new videos from its PS Vita showcase event, held at Vita Hill Social Club in San Francisco recently. Below the break you will find 11 videos for: Uncharted – Golden Abyss, Gravity Rush, Escape Plan, Hot Shots Golf, Hustle Kings, LittleBigPlanet, Reality Fighters, Little Deviants, Super Stardust Delta, Unit 13, and WipeOut 2048 for good measure. Apparently, one isn’t new, but we can’t really tell anymore we’ve watched so many. So, just know 10 of them are. Hit the break to watch for yourself.

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