Entertainment

The sound of almost anything small will be improved by this speaker system from Bayan. Designed for iPod or iPhone it also has an auxiliary input that means with the aid of a 3.5mm to 3.5mm jack lead any MP3 player can benefit.

First came the Mystery of Joyville which was quickly followed by Souls of the Innocent. Now the third instalment of PuppetShow, which is subtitled Lost Town, has arrived to test your playing skills.

Have you ever wanted to take photos when tackling an Adventure game? This next title includes a camera for just that purpose.

Forget your five-a-day, there is an avalanche of fruit waiting to be put to use in this next game from Alawar.

The unexpected arrival of a small device gave me the opportunity to give my regular MP3 player a break as I checked out this Archos device.

For fans of vampires, hidden object searching and puzzle solving, Alawar has released the next title in this popular Vampire Saga series.

This is the second large TV that I have recently had the pleasure of sharing my lounge with. Both were 40inches, the last one was a ‘Smart’ unit, this one perhaps is more affordable as it is what most call a large TV.

It is time for some deep sea exploration and then some seaside development work with a dual title offering from Avanquest.

It wasn’t so long ago that personal media players were restricted to playing just MP3 tracks. Now such a device needs to offer music, video, recording and photographic capabilities.

Faceless men, hidden objects, a Forbidden City, kidnapped victims and a train wreck are just some of the elements of a new game from Alawar.

It is not often that a pair of quality headphones arrives at the same time a quality set of earbuds. Regular readers will know my aversion to the in ear stuffing of so many earbuds, so it was nice that the earbuds were over ear.

Some games immediately grab your attention while others tend to grow on you. This next offering falls into the latter category.

The arrival of this next game from Alawar Entertainment immediately brought back memories of a film I saw in my youth. This film was based on a story from the pen of Mark Twain. Both the story and film are entitled “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” while the game has adopted the title of “New Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” – a subtle difference that permeates throughout the game version of this story.

Success in game playing often requires you to keep your cool so it is vital you do not loose your head in this next offering from Focus Multimedia.

A missing wife and a black cat are just two of the elements making up a game based an Edgar Allan Poe story.

Gardening is often regarded as a relaxing pastime or so they tell me but not when you are faced by the plants that inhabit a new game from Alawar.

Time for some destructive action as Alawar releases a new title in the popular Arkanoid genre.

The first is a board game for teenage to adult based on a popular TV gameshow called The Million Pound Drop. The second is a box of shocks; in fact it is called The Box of Shocks, the idea to get your victim to shriek.

Butterflies, a fairy, dragon and a princess combine their talents to defeat the evil machinations of a wicked witch.

A lot of these Smart TV’s are too big for the average room but Samsung have a 40inch version. This fits remarkably easily into the space my heavier older 32inch offering took. It has so much more than TV to offer.

Counting all the doors in my home, I arrived at the total of 11. Why, you may wonder, was I spending time in this unusual stock taking activity? The reason for this door counting exercise was the arrival of a new game entitled House of 1000 Doors: Family Secrets from Alawar Entertainment. This could make for an awful lot of opening and closing when it comes to playing this game.

When faced with Murder, Mystery & Madness you might well go for the whole hog and tackle a triple pack offering from Focus Multimedia.

Last year Alawar Entertainment published Behind the Reflection, a game that I missed out on for some reason. Now I have the opportunity to catch up on the game’s main characters who reappear in the follow-up title which is also published by Alawar. Nor surprisingly this follow-up game is entitled Behind the Reflection 2 and sub-titled Witch’s Revenge.

While there are more expensive earbuds around than the second set to be looked at here, I doubt there are too many ‘named’ earbuds sold for a more reasonable price than the Cygnett Groove Atomic that I will look at first.

By coincidence I started looking at this next game on the same day that I paid one of my irregular visits to the local barbers. With such a clue you should have little difficulty in working out that the game is about that demon barber of Fleet Street, Sweeney Todd.

Adding to its extensive collection of Hidden Object Adventure titles, Focus Multimedia has brought together two offerings developed by Stargaze Studio and originally published by Alawar Games. Both games are based around a character named Angel who may be the villain or victim of a mystery involving ghosts, zombies and all-manner of horrors.

Sections of the entertainment industry are never shy about borrowing ideas from each other. In this case it is a computer game borrowing from a television series.

With downloads becoming more popular is the CD in danger of going the same way as vinyl? In one of my occasional forays into my passion of jazz I tell you about one such release that is only available as a high quality download, while a couple of others are CD or download all are from the British label NAIM.

Aggressive contestants in the ring but friends at other times, three wrestlers take centre stage in a new point and click adventure.

Like some others, I regard shopping as a chore rather than a pleasure. This next title lets you look at this task from the shop’s point of view as you become manager of a shopping mall.