Game soft parade, or the Way to the silence: Game of the oligarchs

A reporter asks the big businessman:

- How did you manage to put together such a state?

- When I first set foot on American soil, in my pocket was only a dollar. With him and began operations.

- How can you have ordered this dollar?

Game soft parade, or League of Extraordinary ghosts

"- What a pity that you're not a ghost!

- Why?

- Well, because now it will come to television artists: I have to specifically call for the ghosts. And what I'm going to say to them? "

M.-f. "Carlson is back." ... Gray sky, the Sun, cloud-capped, gray, gloomy castles, sullen citizens, warily watching the strangers. Next Revolution Wolf Man, Frankenstein's howl, the flapping of wings and cries Vampire, Dracula's laughter, grinding metal, wailing carried away in the talons of the townspeople and in the midst of all this ugliness - screwed-up a-la Clint Eastwood eyes, legs wide apart, wide-brimmed hat, cloak, automatic crossbow shooting silver arrows and an arsenal of other monstroboek under a cloak - I finally got to the "Van Helsing". Again on the screen kind of movie-comics - a worthy continuation of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen "and potryasyayusche spectacular film" Vidocq. " Hollywood renews its call to the other world. Again mysticism, ghosts again, again dark mystery. Like all of the unknown, ghosts and demons have long attracted people. Moreover, some with head succumbed to the charm of "the best remedy against rogues," as they called Carlson - ghosts. There is even an International Association of Ghostbusters, "brings together 14 thousand members from 87 countries who go to the castles and apartments, taking pictures of dark corners and record the noises of various premises in the hope to capture something" terrible, but simpatishnoe. Such demand has led to the demons that, in addition to the classic literary characters - vampires, Frankenstein, Verovulfu - comic book brought to our already troubled world has a number of characters, monsters - a fiend, bearing as it may sound strange, your cross on the ground - to give people good (!) and be permanently alienated from society. As always, the theme, along with Hollywood, was picked up and producers of games. In his time on the PC has been quite popular Heretic and Hexen, and then began to appear even more complex and intricate game. Like fashion, "Van Helsing" and "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", I decided to make this issue hodgepodge of the most attractive games on the topic of ghosts, demons, vampires and monsters and creatures of fantasy comic book artist, so strongly influenced the modern world of models and stereotypes. So - buuuu! Tremble!

Spawn

Game soft parade, or Eyes on CNN!

CNN broadcasts news all day, repeating continuously throughout the day. So what? Who are they looking at? They look all. The thirst for new - one of the essential qualities of society. What can we say about one of the most dynamic parts of it - gamer? Many are faithful favorite games, but even they would like to know about what kind of smoke rises from the laboratory to the developers. What is there so loud gurgling? And what is babahnulo? So, after a review of the most famous games on the market, we decided to give you an overview of gaming innovations. We'll track what happens to software companies and tell you about the discoveries. First - a bit about the news industry. The first - and perhaps most importantly - Pocket PC gaming is seriously taken into account and considered in analytical studies of companies in the gaming market along with games for the PC. For example, a recent study of the market for electronic games, spent Deloitte & Touche, the company has led analysts to conclude that the industry is currently booming and its state depends largely on the development of gaming devices themselves, which include classified as well KPK. The company believed that the number of gaming devices will grow from the current 415 million to 2.6 billion in 2010. In the field such recognition PDA gaming. Another agency, Jupiter & Research, completely dedicated his research mobile games. Mobile gaming community nearly doubled from 23 million available in 2003 to 43 million in 2009. On the basis of such attention to a PDA-gaming Microsoft is seriously thinking about whether to include the possibility of gaming in its regular develop devices based on Windows Mobile, the so-called PMC (Portable Media Center). The same sentiments soar among the Russian game developers. According to published last week, questioning the results of Game Developers Conference 2004, the number of games for XBOX, produced by the conference participants fell from 6% last year to 4.9% and the number of games made for PDA, by contrast, increased from 5% to 6%. So, expect multiple updates, happy owners of PDAs!

GameBox Solitaire II

GameBox Solitaire II for Pocket PC Great Week. Special week. The week marked the appearance of one of the most remarkable games. So: from the creator of the game-winner of numerous awards, from the company, the award is not a reward and sprinkled signs of attention from the press - a new collection of games that require care and logic. Last week PDAmill presented another collection of Solitaire GameBox Solitaire II. Since the days of the classic "Solitaire" (Solitaire) Solitaire ceased to be the usual occupation of idle people. Now these are interesting problems that require, sometimes, to mobilize all their analytical abilities. All the best from an earlier version passed in GameBox Solitaire II: Games are automatically saved, so that leaving the game or changing the patience, you can later return to the game started, excellent graphics and animation, sound effects, meticulously spent. Developers simplified interface that makes it much more convenient, well thought-out system have added tips, altered background information and statistics on the games. Company Jaybot7 in the face of the famous PDA-musician Jason Sirgina graced the game with new music videos. As part of the new GameBox-and 10 new solitaire games: Australian, Bastion, Eagle Wings, Five columns, Nestor, Penguin, Cat's corner, the Scorpion, Spider and Yukon. Everything is pretty exciting - fun here to stay. Good news: despite the fact that in the description of the demo version says that it is limited to only one game I played long enough and so far the game is not locked. This is the seventh game in our portfolio companies - with each new product, it establishes new standards of quality. The company's professionals are working on every detail, without ignoring any one component that makes them play some of the most attractive in the market. It remains to add that the developers have promised a version for PalmOS in July. We will definitely let you know about her appearance.

Pick 11

Pick 11 for Pocket PC With a slight delay to present to you just three games company Xi-Art, which finally appeared on game portals. Pick 11 - A new, third version of a small game, not easy to pass. Your task - to remove from the playing field, all the gold bars. To do this, mark the tiles with numbers, giving a total 11. Otherwise you'll have to add more tiles on the field. Easy? Not at all. Firstly, time is limited. Secondly, a lot depends on what bar you fall out of the "deck". I had a lot to try to have time to remove all the tiles in time. Everything was so exciting that even the 1 st level, which is available in the demo, I will gladly pass over and over again. Very recklessly. In addition, registered copy of the game mode is supported Tournaments. Simple but clean graphics, Scottish music, added in the latest version - all create a mood ... The previous version of the game is not for nothing was nominated for the magazine PocketPC Magazine "Best Software 2003".

Towers

Towers for Pocket PC Another update from the Xi-Art. In Towers, similar in style to Pick 11, is about your care. Need to mark the cards from the pyramid lined, rapolozhennye the hierarchy immediately above or below the card, open the deck. So, if the deck is open jack, then you should mention 10 or queen of any suit. If no suitable, open the next in the deck. Time is also limited, you have to hurry. The simple, unvarnished schedule. And if the Pick 11 Play hard, but with passion, here, on the eternal first level, available in the demo version, everything is much more uniform. The updated version was introduced Tournament mode and added a musical number.

MonstroCity

MonstroCity for Pocket PC And finally, the last update of the Xi-Art: race. Well-drawn menu, fantastic robot-machines, grinding metal, music ... This MonstroCity. The new version of the developers added a variety of surprises on the road. Now you can swallow small amounts of "accelerator" you need to avoid the blue arrows, they slow you down. Green Star dispersed you up to speed of light, wrenches help fix faults obtained after a collision. And finally, naiboleee my favorite item - a police siren. Pass on it, selects and on your sirens all the cars on the road will huddle to the curb. Both of them! Tally-ho!

Kung Fu 1972

Kung Fu 72 for Pocket PC "Muuuuuuuuuuuuu! - Meets your screensaver game. "Muuuuuuu! - She growled again. Next - better. Steep young man undoubtedly Asian proishzhdeniya menacing stares at you from the display. Look closely. That you are. Action Kung Fu 72 on the plan ConcreteUdder occurs at the Shanghai film set in 1972. Date is consistent with musical accompaniment. You - the young actor playing the role of the avenger - you need to enter the palace of the villain with a variety of rooms, and scattered arms. In the spirit of the Shanghai film of the period throwing crowd at one stroke. Issued against you loyal henchmen villain: in the blue training pants are the unarmed fighters, in green pants and a beret - knife thrower.At the end of the corridor you will have to wait for the big fat man in red boots. And here you have to seriously. Game graphics is not bad. I am glad also that you can turn off the sounds and music through the settings menu, I quickly took advantage and turned off rather tedious monotonous music. The developers made it possible to reconfigure the buttons, punches, stylus in the game does not work. The menu, however, poorly drawn. Another - quite a big disadvantage games - after the game, whether successful or losing, you have 30 seconds to observe the inscription Game Over; same will restart the game. The demo version provides only one level. Couple tips. The narrow strip at the top of the screen a green dot indicates your position in the corridor - on it you can navigate. The big boss at the end of each level can be killed if gradual retreat, then expect squatting position, when suitable, and - his knee, knee!

CoolChix Chess

CoolChix Chess for Pocket PC All they have is not so, as we have. They live on their own, specific laws, so people who leave should go in advance to be ready for many changes in my life. The Chinese variant of chess, first introduced on the portal Handango last week - a vivid example of that. How to say the developers - the company PPCLink, this is the most widespread game in China, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam and other Asian countries. Here all is unusual, but, as it should be in the East - wisely. The king sits in the palace, surrounded by guards, followed by the ministers go, then, outside the palace in the yard - the cavalry, immediately and symmetrical rows of soldiers - on foot. There are chariots, and even guns. Game figures differ only in hieroglyphs, and they are different for the two adversaries. In order to understand, have read the manual in PDF. Between two warring kingdoms of the river, which sometimes changes the course of the battle. I am sure fans will enjoy a game of chess. The game is unusual, but interesting enough. Board and the menu well and accurately drawn. It is a pity, though, that has to save the game in a standard window, it is not fitting into the overall design of the game.

TetriBox

TetriBox for Pocket PC and TetriBox for Palm OS Name of company-developer - Absolutist - is consistent with the spirit of their work. Before making his version of the old Tetris goodness, they studied the history of the game, its rules, has opened a forum Strategy Tetris, and only then begun to implement their plans. Installing this game on your PDA, I had no idea that so you can vary the game and make it a new attractive. In addition to the classic, TetriBox offer another 17 species of Tetris. Here and in laying the figures in color, and styling in the form and arrangement of certain pieces - all on the field consisting of various objects: the usual squares to hexagons. All this is carefully thought out and balanced. No artificiality. Beautiful graphics. User-friendly menu. On my Qtek were, however, problems with the management of the stylus. A little awkward to use as reference files - the text is presented in one window, have to scroll down to find instructions for interesting game. In the full version you can download the points earned on the server - maybe you - the best handler in the world? Unlike the licensed version is also possible to maintain their games. In other respects, the demo is completely functional - it is not restricted by time or by the number of games. The only thing that sometimes appears on the display window listing the benefits of the full version. Overall - a game I really liked. Absolutist managed to bring something new into the beaten Tetris. Thanks also to Alexey Pajitnov - the inventor of Tetris - for our happy childhood.For, if you believe the stories of Tetris on the site - just him we owe the appearance of Tetris on his computer.

Legacy: Revenge - Expansion pack

Legacy: Revenge - Expansion pack for the Pocket PC and Legacy: Revenge - Expansion pack for Palm OS New cities are open to you. New mysteries await disclosure. Search and explore ancient ruins, rescue beautiful women, battle with the dragons ... Over 30 hours of gameplay, 15 levels, 16 quests, many new objects and surprises, love and the battle - Hungarian Redshift has released an additional package to its Legacy 1.05. Detail the game I presented in a previous review, but now I note again that, despite the huge number of objects, the game is well organized - Hungarian developers were able to provide all balanced. By the way, Redshift is in talks with the authors of Civilization on the acquisition of rights to transfer games for PDAs. If you are a fan of games, you can vote for them.

Snake Deluxe

Snake Deluxe for PalmOS My favorite of the games for PalmOS from today's review. New game from CrazySoft: History cute snake that decided to take a trip. There is a map. There are levels. Beautiful "cartoon" animation, a cute snake, unsophisticated, but funny sounds that accompany the game. On the map you can choose the level and pass it to a given degree of complexity. You can choose to Adventure, in which you are going through all the levels, "revealing" one after another. The game is simple but remarkably spent, which, unfortunately, a rarity. Play well diversified by a number of innovations - the snake eats a variety of fruits and berries, sometimes come across a bottle with some "Herbalife, which reduces the snake in size. Sometimes she swallows hours in order to increase the allotted her in this world is time. And finally, the snake very funny faints when faced with various obstacles (unless the snake can swoon).

Realm Walker

Realm Walker for Palm OS Built by another RPG-game of our obzroa - Realm Walker - have announced the release of version 2.05. The new version contains two new bot to trade, new spells, an additional study of graphic elements, a number of updates the number of monsters on the latest levels. Based on the same elements as the Legacy, as described earlier, Realm Walker is significantly different in the chart: here the action is not the first person, you control your character using the buttons or the stylus. Thus, 500 levels, 40 kinds of strange creatures have for you a bad feeling. Countless "magic items needed" instruction to the game on the 10-page user interface, in places reminiscent of Mission Control Center, all it does for me, the game is not enough fun. It is good for those who like to dive into the unknown. The demo version is available 7 levels of the unknown. Hopefully, right.

Game soft parade, or a broad smile Reuters mobile gaming

"Despite the simple, sometimes, graphics, and unfinished stories games for mobile devices, specifically phones and PDAs have become an ideal gaming platform for gamers who want to spend time and gaming guru, looking for possible short game." Last week, Reuters news agency broke a solid publication about the possibilities of mobile gaming. Our regiment arrived, gentlemen! Market for mobile games has been estimated in 2003 at $ 587 million by 2007, according to London-based Informa Media, this figure will grow by more than six times and will make $ 3.8 million Everything looks so radiant that after the failure of its N-Gage Nokia made a new attempt to create a game your mobile device. Manufacture of games has reached saturation in Japan and is on the rise in the U.S.. Sprint PCS, for example, averaged 3.5 million downloads of games since 2004 and is preparing to release its first phone with full 3D. Even the major manufacturers and game publishers are turning their attention to this branch of the gaming industry. So, THQ Inc. already acquired a number of companies supplying a wide range of wireless services - from mobile games to ringtones. According to the Reuters browser, a big problem for developers yet provides a variety of platforms, mobile devices, which require adjustment of games for each model. Amidst all these upgrades Microsoft quietly registered the patent for the discovery application clicks on the PDA. So be careful, better use the stylus, it's way, and easier as I procedure simply by controlling some buttons on the Sprint RG, and several other games that were released or announced last week.

Burgerama

Game soft parade, or the Titans come into play

Before the next review of the novelties of the week to make a small lyrical economic retreat on the theme of a bright future, which, apparently, waiting for us fans of mobile gaming. At London's Wireless Leadership Forum, held last week, mobile gaming once again predicted a bright future. At this time, the well-known analytical agency Yankee Group presented the results of his research on mobile data for the region EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Asia). It is projected agency revenues from voice services to operators in Western Europe until 2008, stopped growing at around $ 124 billion, while revenues from mobile data will increase by that time almost doubled up to $ 50 billion and will continue to grow. In the worst affected, according to the forecast, the growth will come from entertainment services, in particular gaming. In an effort to take the opening promising market zabryatsala armor Nokia, released on sale in Europe and Asia, its N-Gage QD. This novelty, which appeared after the fiasco of the injured N-Gage, is a continuation of the company's strategy to move towards the mass consumer devices for online gaming. So far in this direction holds strong leadership GameBoy Nintendo. The new N-Gage QD corrected some shortcomings of the previous model, areas of particular criticism: slightly changed the navigation system, a slot for multimedia cards submitted for building - had to change the card had to remove the battery pack. The developers have retained as an operating system and N-Gage. The smartphone continues to be based on Symbian. In addition, the new N-Gage QD supports GSM 900 / 1800, equipped with Bluetooth, weighs 143 grams and its battery is designed for 5 hours of talk time or 10.5 hours of gaming. The device comes with 20 games. Same number of games, promised in 2004, was reduced by 60% from 100 to 40. In addition, the platform developed by the Finnish giant Arena, - a sort of online community of players, allowing play on the network via GPRS - has so far only 50-70 thousand people. After submission of the second N-Gage in Asia, Nokia is going to take a niche in the gaming industry such Asian countries as the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam and Malaysia. For this purpose, Nokia has developed a series of marketing programs, which, according to Rick of the Year, Manager of Nokia, engaged in games, are largely based on a study of the most popular in Asian countries multiplayer role-playing game Ragnorok: "The whole secret lies in the pricing model of the game: this popularity has become possible thanks to the low price and the minimum requirements for devices. At some stage we are going to follow the same strategy. " And Nokia can understand. Asia is the most advanced region for gaming: the number of active players are the greatest. So, Bandai Networks and D3Publisher announced last week that the number of registered users of their gaming portal has reached 400 thousand people. Founded in 2002, the portal contains games for subscribers of the telecom giant NTT DoCoMo, using the protocol i-mode. And finally, another good news. Most famous Electronic Arts is preparing to capture the market for mobile games. "The era of complete idler, - said Vice President Gerhard Florin, in his speech at the Mobile Entertainment Forum, - the current generation has grown up on interactivity and requires her to have fun. ... Our frenchayzery working to make our game stand out among others. Everyone can publish mobile games, but I'm sure that buyers will choose it ours. " Hope to check it out, but for now - Game news of the week.

Midtown Madness

It's not even a presentation of a new toy, but rather, a small announcement. Last week, the site PocketGamer posted a couple of screenshots and short video of Midtown Madness for Pocket PC. Judging by the rather scanty information, waiting for us pretty exciting game action, although there is no information about the developer, nor the timing of the game. Perhaps this can be regarded as implementation intentions Microsoft, made by Mark Spain, director of companies involved in mobile devices, in one of his April interview. According to the sounded plans, Microsoft will release before the end of the year 13 games for PDAs, including Midtown Madness, RallySport and a series of Age of ... - the game has already gained its popularity on PC and Xbox. We add only that the Age of Empires for Pocket PC was recently released Korean ZIO.

Space Treker

Game soft parade, or Victory over consoles

Despite the presence of a variety of emulators that allow play on the Pocket PC games for consoles, according to polls, and many discussions in the forums, users still choose the game written specifically for PDAs. In today our review, in particular, there was a game that easily can be compared to games for the PlayStation game console the first generation. Generally, it should be noted that in the past few weeks the topic and quality of development have improved significantly, began to appear original games, practiced new technologies. Excellent design, excellent thought-out plot, the entourage, the atmosphere ... Therefore, we decided to change the format of reviews and also to acquaint you with the upcoming new products. Let's start with the most - a victorious game that went round the console and even some of the most delicious of gifts from developers ahead of us in the near future.

Coming soon: Street Duel!

Games for the PDA, the third week of July

Coming soon: a new RPG-game from PDAMill

PDAMill gaining new heights. Experience with 3D-flight - Game Flux - in my opinion, very successful. According to preliminary data, the company has now taken a role-playing game genre. The website Games-Art published a screenshot of ripening in the bowels PDAMill role-playing game. Unfortunately, no details at this time. We only know that the new product will be ready in September and is available in versions for platforms Pocket PC, Palm OS, MS Smartphone and Symbian. Maybe next week we will be able to get some more information. However, we can confidently say that if another game will be as planned and worked out, like all previous ones, then we can have many entertaining hours.

Coming Soon: Updated Tower Mogul for Pocket PC

ESoftInteractive surprise in store for us. Coming soon upgrade their economic simulator Tower Mogul, which we described in a previous issue playing soft parade. Entering the game as a large landowner and trader of real estate, you design and build multi-storey buildings, develop them, advertising, shall be hotel rooms, apartments and office space to rent, watch out for reviews of their guests, providing them with additional amenities, changing the layout of the commercial zone and m . etc. Your goal - to increase the rating of the building. With each rating point you get more and more opportunities to expand their business. The first version of the game has received excellent evaluation of many reviewers, and was also awarded the title of the best simulation game of 2003. In the new version - Tower Mogul 1.2 - the developers promise a lot of innovations. It is very tempting, considering that in the first version was more than 60 types of premises, a variety of catastrophes, the ability to produce screenshots of your homes and more. Apparently, the release of the game will take place soon enough - the company is already conducting a beta test. We will monitor developments and will inform you as soon as ESoftInteractive determine the day of X.

Coming Soon: Updated Fish Tycoon for Palm OS

New idea! LDW Software Company prepares to release a new version of Fish Tycoon (see Fiction soft parade, or a way to silence: the game of the oligarchs). In the present version, in their search for Miraculous species you are growing, and crosses of fish in their aquariums, sell, derived forms and re-invest money in research and advertising, purchasing necessary equipment and medicines. According to the company, the updated version, you will receive an additional feature: you can sell and exchange new views with your friends and acquaintances. From now on, the game is not limited to a single handheld - with an infrared port you go to the "outer market". Looking forward to ...

New: Street Duel

Version Street Duel for Pocket PC