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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.
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.
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