Entertainment

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.

It is hidden object searching and adventure exploring time with a new title from Youdagames.

First something ideal for iPod or iPhone users it requires no power source and gives a good sound the Travel Speaker System from Griffin. Second the JBL on Tour Micro a single speaker that connects using a standard 3.5mm lead.

Picturesque Cornwall, a less-than picturesque demon and missing festival attendees all feature in a task-based Hidden Object game now available from Focus Multimedia.

Developed by Stargaze and published by Alawar Entertainment: Mountain Crime: Requital is a Hidden Object and Puzzle Adventure game.

A favourite series of mine is the Jewel Quest collection of titles that feature match-3 and adventure and hidden object searching.

All you need is a USB port and an aerial then you can watch TV or even record programs anywhere. In theory the supplied mini aerial will be enough but that depends on the reception in the area that you are viewing from.

It is rare for a week to go by without another new title appearing from Alawar. This time it is a retro-style cartoon adventure.

Watching a DVD movie on your laptop may be fine for a single person but when more are involved you need a larger display. A new product from CablesToGo offers to help in this respect.

Following her introduction in The Mystery of Meane Manor, Becky Brogan returns in The Institute. As with the first title, The Institute is a Hidden Object game with some puzzles thrown in for good measure.

For those who have laptops with an HDMI out then I guess this will be of little interest. However for those with a Desktop who want a second display then this little piece of kit from HIS, this could well be what you are looking for.

While Christmas is of course the biggest selling time for games, presents for other things such as Birthdays come at any time of year, two very different offerings here a box game of Angry Birds and a board game His and Hers.

With innovative scrolling and zooming scenes for searching, The Clockwork Man 2 is now available with a bonus game.

With a title that begins with the words “Elementary my dear”, you might think that Sherlock Holmes was involved in some way. However with Elementary My Dear Majesty, this is not the case. Instead the game has more of a fairy tale feel to it as it arrives with the claim of being the first 3D Hidden Object Adventure game.

My doctor suggests I should exercise and move about more. So I put his advice to good use as I checked out a set of Sennheiser headphones.

Have you noticed that when a game starts with a raven taking off in flight or a car pulling up at iron gates then spirits and evil forces will not be too far behind? If you have managed to avoid this type of situation then this next game will remedy the omission. In fact you get both the car pulling up and the raven taking flight.

Two more offerings from Hedkandi, first a set of Headphones and amazingly they are blue and not pink. Second a small and compact travel speaker ideal for those occasions when you want to share your music with others.

Regarded by some as the City ofLove,Parisis the setting for a game involving people aging rapidly to the sound of haunting music.

This has been around for a while, but for one reason or another I never got to look at one. This device can take a signal from Freeview, Freesat, DVD, Blu-ray and most other things and send it by your router to almost anywhere.

Adding Wi-Fi connectivity and the Android operating system to a portable media player is the design concept behind the Archos Home Connect device.

A match-3 game takes you on a journey from a house through an enchanted cavern to your destination.

No sooner do I complete my review of the Eminent EM7280 hdMEDIA RT3 product than the next version of this high definition multimedia player arrives for testing. This new member of the hdMEDIA RT3 family is the limited edition EM7285 HD media player which offers a range of additional features over the previous model.

Rather than a single title, this next offering from the Focus Multimedia’s game catalogue combines two Mystic Diary games. The first game in this Hidden Object Adventure series is subtitled Lost Brother while the follow up game is subtitledHauntedIsland. Each of these two games has its own separate installation routine and adds its own icon to your desktop.