Game soft parade, or any thing-thing for the demonic night Mayday

"... Apartment belongs such worlds, and times when the situation is particularly bad. Salvation is particularly difficult to acquire. Especially hard to wake up ... Once a year, on April 30, Walpurgis Night comes. Then, as they say, the world of demons are released, "- this is an unexpected view of German mistitsista Gustav Meyrinka on May Day. According to ancient legend, it was that night at the European witch-gathering for the exchange of wisdoms on top of the Brocken in the Harz Mountains, Germany. Bearing the name of the holy Walburga, this night - the fabric, woven from the pagan and Christian designs. "On such a night is the lowest higher and lower top. Then the event is almost no reason to explode one after the other, then nothing can justify the psychologically ... An hour had struck, and the dogs wild huntsmen again claw his chains ... " One of the most permanent characteristics of humanity, carried them through centuries of history - the desire for the holidays. Only for a few lucky festival is "always with me." The rest of the sad look on your calendar and count the days until the first red sheet. And here he is on the tip of the nose. May 1 marked the ancient Romans - the day they worshiped the fertility goddess Maia (on whose behalf and was named this month). Pronesya holiday through the ages. Gathering in the day by a covenant of the ancestors, people eventually went from merry to the expression of indignation. So, on this day in 1886, the Chicago workers began to strike, demanding to shorten the working day up to 8 hours, which led to clashes with the police and the tragic end of the conflict. After these events on May 1 as Labor Day, has been celebrated in many countries. In Russia, the holiday was later renamed "Labour Day". Day on which the mass exodus of people from the cities, open cottage and holiday season, roast barbecue at the first awakening to new life plein air. In May all "working people" a lot of time and can be arbitrarily long time to indulge in a variety of fun and entertainment, virtually without interruption for a short working peresmenok. In anticipation of "red days calendar" we decided to present you a selection of games, nominated and received a variety of prizes - from the award "Consumer Choice" to the title of "Best Software", and, most recently given more attention: among the most popular ones are quite boring instances that are not of much interest. Perhaps the whole team download their games dozens ?..:) believed that a good game sets a new benchmark standards in the gaming industry. After reviewing the submitted samples, which can be download as always in the "Programs" on our site, you verify that this is so. We can only rejoice - games for Pocket PC is becoming more interesting and varied.

Pocket PC

Age of Empires (Age of Empires)

Award Pocket PC Magazine, and Handheld Computing «Best Software 2003", winner of Europe Pocket PC Award 2004, Award Handango «Consumer Choice 2003". One of the most popular PC game genre RTS (Real time strategy) - Age of Empires, finally moved to the platform Pocket PC. A great example prenosa game to another platform. Beautiful graphics - a lot of elements are well drawn, well thought out and sounds along with the interface will notify you about events in the game. Limited capabilities of devices have forced developers to exclude from the game fans familiar PC-version of the multiplayer mode and map editor, but fans of the game in the forums say that the maps generated on the desktop, can be used on Pocket PC. Goal of the game - to hold your tribe from Stone to Iron Age, teaching him, zastraivaya land, learning new instruments, introducing innovations that have become available during the game, as well as thinking through the strategy and tactics in its relations with its neighbors. The game has several modes (only one available in the demo), depending on the goal of the game are changing. In one case, you need to take the first definition of construction, in another - first to build and maintain one of the wonders of the world. Among the weaknesses - lack of clues that are so necessary in games of this genre, unfamiliar with the game have to read the documentation. In addition, the music used in the game, I thought not suitable and a bit tedious, but turn it off or change the volume in the Demo version can not - I had to leave the game to adjust the volume in the CPC. Nevertheless, the first scored by an elephant made me happy, probably similar to that experienced by people of the Stone Age. The new standard is set. Developers of games in this genre have a lot of work to be on the level.

Michael Shumacher Racing World Kart 2002 (World Karting Championship in 2002 Michael Schumacher)

Winner of Europe Pocket PC Award 2004, Award Handango «Consumer Choice 2003". Full-featured 3D-racing. Developer MSRW Kart 2002, the company Inverse-Entertainment, has done everything right - thoughtful interface settings, where you can adjust the taste by volume of sound effects and music, adjust the stereo, which is useful if you're playing with headphones, and also change the control buttons. Next - color maps at your leisure - and go! The roar of engines - you are on the qualifying race. Hit the pedal in time unfolds, checked with the card. It took me a few rounds to show a normal result. More - more. Here you are among the contenders. It's very simple. You need to come to the finish line first. You will have to push, slow, swinging back. Fight, take the exit ahead and keep your distance. Everything is thought - in a corner you will bring, is inevitable screech of tires, if you do not descend speed on a steep turn. A lot of pleased that the audience applaud and cheer up a whistle, if a turn is successfully held. We can only regret that in the demo version is available, only one track, while that for long enough.

Snails (Snails)

Winner of Europe Pocket PC Award 2004, Award Handango «Consumer Choice 2003", winner of Pocket PC Magazine for the title of "Best Software 2003". Yes, yes. That's a snail. They crawl through the countryside and a bullet into each other from various weapons. "In deep space on the planet Shnugi three races live snails: Mugam, Lupi and Nuginsy. All three races of these terrible, violent creatures in constant war for power over the planet. " Beautifully drawn, the cartoon "a terrible" so cute smile with a screen that at first is awkward in them, even shoot. Sympathy evaporates quickly enough - the enemy snails do not spare you, and throw a variety of explosives: bursting frogs with a damage radius of two meters (think - how many snails at a time) and bees bombers, which, moreover, that "Planting Come on!", They are after This is still so noisy explode, which inadvertently pose the question: "What is so bumknulo? I could not play a crap so much noise! ​​". Great game! Wonderful graphics! Good music (not like it - do not listen, you can turn it off through a convenient menu system). And as shouts of snails quite remarkable. "Yo-yo" - rather they exclaim after another fallen enemy cochlea. "Y-y-y-y" - says a disappointed dead snail and bursts on the astonished eyes of the cows, watched with amazement at these aggressive creatures. You can play with your computer, you can compete with tovarishem on your PDA, and you can turn the autopilot and enjoy the view snail massacre. The spectacle is worth it.

Monopoly (Monopoly)

Winner of Europe Pocket PC Award 2004, Award Handango «Consumer Choice 2003" nominee Pocket PC Magazine «Best Software 2003". The good old board game has finally reached the CCP. Roll the dice, you move on marked flowers board. Each step - the street, the company, surprise, prison. At one time it was possible to play for hours. With the advent of Pocket PC you will not need long to find partners. You can safely play with the correct computer, moreover, will choose how many opponents will be playing. But mind you, that the opponents know their job very well, you have to be savvy and ingenuity to get around them. Simple but very attractive graphics. Sounds very little that sorry - they would greatly enlivened numerous events in the game. Monopoly interface leaves much to be desired still. Too many settings, very few tips, you must carefully read the help file to familiarize yourself with all the rules. The developers have done all the menus as windows rise by buoyancy, like a command stroke Windows, which is also not the best way affects the enjoyment of the game.

Fade (Evasion)

Winner of Europe Pocket PC Award 2004, Award Handango «Consumer Choice 2003", finalist of Pocket PC Magazine for the title of "Best Software 2003". Louis, antiques dealer, lives happily with his wife Anna in a pretty French village. And everything is good, until one day it does not begin to disturb any elusive bits of memories. Something vague, he tries to remember to restore the picture of some events, but in vain. Finally, it is solved, and leaves everything to uncover the truth about himself, his life and his beloved wife. Flash ... Louis wakes up in a strange room. Over him with his clothes in the hands of a stranger bowed, silently pointing to the ceiling. Flash - it is in the basement - total strangers around ... The mystery gradually becomes clear ... Fade - the best game of the genre Adventure, beautifully made by Fade Team. The grim story, great graphics, great idea - everything is fascinating. Everything now depends on your care. Do not worry if you can not get - that means you're missing something. Perhaps for that picture safe? May be needed to pick up the phone? Think watch. Fade, indeed, a new step in the gaming industry. And the awards he has received quite true. There are, however, a slight drawback - the demo version just is not any settings. Neither the volume nor the image quality does not governed. A pity ...

Palm OS

Warfare Incorporated

Award Pocket PC Magazine, and Handheld Computing «Best Software 2003" award Handango «Consumer Choice 2003" Award Palm Source "Powered Up February 2004, the premium PDArcade« Best Game of 2003. "Just a few years ago the best of what can to dream - a flat two-dimensional game, painted in 256 colors. And now - for the Palm OS platform has become available to play better than Warcraft. You are in command of the camp, think through strategy and tactics of attack and defense, and your soldiers obey unquestioningly. Now and again you hear : "Yes, sir" or "Already I go, sir!" Your character's name is Andy Whitmore. He was a security officer interplanetary geology of Warfare Incorporated. At the head of intelligence of the expedition sent to you at the open by the planet Icarus, where, according to preliminary data, the huge deposits of precious minerals Galaktita. Upon arrival you will, however, find that the discoveries of the competing companies to use Omni Corp., Shamelessly begun extraction of the mineral. Challenged, and you have to accept it. It closely resembles a similar PC-strategies. You build a strategic facilities, train soldiers, improve your weapons and produce military equipment. Attacking and defending. The difference is that a decent analogue appeared now and for the platform Palm OS. Good graphics and sound befitting the occasion: crash, team, shooting. The only thing sorry - in the game with 14 levels, although, according to the company-developer, a map editor and multiplayer mode (Wi-Fi and Bluetooth) are already in beta-testing.

Bejeweled (Rossyp)

Award Palm Boulevard «Best Software" award Handango «Consumer Choice 2003". Already well-known avid PDA players, award-winning version of Bejeweled 2.0 greatly improved dovavlena support Hi-Res. The game objective is simple: find similar precious stones and remove them from the field. Despite its simplicity, is played with gusto. This is one of those games that you play as if bewitched. However, if you all seem too easy, simple, turn the game on time. The new version of the software company Astraware added some interesting innovations. If you are just starting to play and still can not find the right gems, output on the screen letter «h», and the right stones will pop up. Moreover, you can configure the game so that she highlights the necessary gems after 10 seconds of thought. Want to change the animation? Emerges «t». Customize the way you want. And enjoy!

Legacy (Legacy)

Award PDArcade «Best Game of 2003", the prize Handango «Consumer Choice 2003". Game developers - Hungarian company RedShift - big fans of the Might & Magic, Black Crypt, Eye of the Beholder. "We decided to create their own RPG-game - said at the company's website. - Even though the entire design conceived by us, we, of course, borrowed some ideas from these, proven games. " Legacy, in fact, done in the best traditions of the genre RPG. Work out all - from a light candles to many characters.Well-traced graphics, made in the manner of Might & Magic, plunges into a strange and fantastic world of magic, light and dark forces, friendship and betrayal. The set sounds as background (flame torch, the crickets) and is accompanied by certain actions (fighting, squeaking doors). A huge variety of levels, which can be supplemented by available free level editor. The set of objects and materials, a lot of tricks and magic. Surprises. For example, do you think whether you can play cards with spells? Ever tried? Try it! You will enjoy:)

Magic World (fascinating world)

Award PDArcade «Best Game of 2003". A small character with a strange name for a Russian ear Lomax goes on strange worlds, jumping from platform to platform, running from enemies, in one word leads an active lifestyle. Management of its way of life is entrusted into your hands by UPL Software. The company's specialists have tried - they are long and carefully outlines the game world, turning it into one kototry we see in the end - full of color and fascinating. Not a bad custom control system, but difficulties arise with the jumps. As it turned out, I have not one - on the forums I've seen similar complaints. Try to jump. If you still get - you are a professional.

GTS Racing Challenge (Race GTS)

Award PDArcade «Best game of the genre Racing 2003" award Handango «Consumer Choice 2003". Completing our Shooting Stars race. So, the key in the ignition - go! Before you eight roads. Each - a level of complexity. Beautiful 3D graphics in compliance with the prospects. Great scenery - sometimes want to stop and admire, but where there ... Need to rush forward. With the sounds of tires and roaring engines. In combination - a game for the console GameBoy and developer experience in the production of Astraware games for Pocket PC - created a beautiful thing, you will appreciate the fans of adrenaline and drive fast. Other than your vacation! The authors, translation:

Game soft parade, or a day of victory with a PDA in his hands

In the days of my childhood was not militants. Films with muscular guys hung with cartridge belts, were available only to "elected" - the owner of a rare while the VCR. We watched on TV movies about WWII. At the time, these films stand out a lot of money, provided equipment and protect the extras from the ranks of the armed forces. This leads to the grand epics, pierced, however, the ideology to such an extent, which does not inspire the boys to play the heroes of WWII. Masterpieces of World War gathered dust while on the shelves, and flammable children's imagination paintings was very little. The situation changed dramatically with the intervention of Hollywood. The screens out Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan." The film is about how a lot of soldiers are killed in order to return the mother's son - the triumph of justice and democracy, the victory of American troops over the German occupiers - let the world know who they are bound to win. Despite the strong amerikanizirovannost this film, in which battle scenes were set frighteningly realistic and spectacular. The film, which drew attention to the games industry in the Great Patriotic War. Starts booming gaming genre WWII (World War II). At this wavelength there are such well-known games for the PC as a "Stormtrooper», Call of duty, Medal of Honor. And then the developers could not hold on obscure sarcasm: one job, playing a Russian soldier, you become completely defenseless, following obscure figures in front and waiting when they get in order to take away the rifle. The war turned into a separate line in the gaming industry, which develops each year with the growing list of armed conflicts between countries. With each war, the number of games on a given topic increases. Some of them have something to teach, some are just being entertained. Some - just stick to the game is so fashionable and attractive for gamers word "war." Producers of games for handheld and then try to keep up. In anticipation of the holiday on May 9, we decided to review the war games, with special attention to the games dedicated to World War II, although here you will find a number of advanced military subjects. I remind you that all of the following games can be found in our "Programs". So, on pleeee-cho! Step ma-a-arsh!

Mini-Dogfight

Pocket PC

Good news. The era of "Tic Tac Toe for Pocket PC goes into oblivion. Now you can fly without looking into the careening past the colored squares, simultaneously trying to figure out what they are symbolized. You can fly from pleasure, listening to the sweet sound of the motor and focusing on the destruction of aces from the enemy camp. Mini-Dogfight, which can be called "Combat Air Dogs," a perfect example of the genre Games FlightSim. In version 1.5, game developers, the company OmniG Soft, including a model aircraft since the Second World War. Convenient and easy to control interface, you can keep your airplane as a joystick, and through the control panel on the screen. The aircraft are equally good at listening and stylus and joystick. True, it will take some time to learn how to conduct it properly. It met all - when you press the "up" (when moving the wheel forward) - the plane descends, pressing the "down" - soars skyward. Just as in the real world. You can enjoy your flight from different angles - on the control panel provides buttons to change the form view. You can choose the landscape, against which the battle will take place: there is a snow-covered valley, steppe, desert, and others. In addition to all his other merits the game allows you to bomb a neighbor at work. Provided that it also has a Pocket PC. You can install the game server on your computer and cause local aces on the air duel.

Kursk

Pocket PC

In three dimensions you can not only fly, but to run, crawl and even drive on different kinds of military equipment. 1943.German Marshals Walther Model, and Erich von Manshteym pull together their strength to the Kursk with the intent to take the city. Marshal Aleksandr Vasilyev gives orders to the Soviet units to consolidate the position and not to miss the German tank forces. You can play as a part of German armored forces, and in the Red Army. Thus, we begin. Here they are, our guys ... Are some strange gait. Occupy an enemy bunker. Here's my arsenal. I can shoot a pistol, assault rifles, machine guns. I can run to the tank, sit in it, manage it and shoot an 8-millimeter cannon. That military vehicles through which you can also move. And here is an information line that you may know the names of their victims and were inofrmirovany state games. Here, for example, a Rustam shot Yevgeny Ivanovich. But just reposed in Bose Evgeny incredible force of the spirit sent to the forefathers of Kurt Fleischer. In general, the inconsistencies in the game a lot. The sound sometimes disappears and is not synchronized with the pull of a trigger. People with square heads nervously running around the field. Despite the numerous hills, you can not climb on them. Not everything is in order also to the management - it was sometimes difficult enough force to move the tank forward, for some reason he regularly got lost on the ride side. Another big drawback - the target-driven stylus moves smoothly enough on the display, so sometimes get to the enemy turns out to be rather complicated. Nevertheless, the game has received generally positive reviews. This is indeed a watershed moment for gaming on the PDA. 3D starts gaining ground and winning.

Battle of The Generals

Pocket PC

A prototype of the board game Stratego (in the Soviet "hire" it was called "Polygon»), Battle of The Generals ("Battle of the generals') significantly upgraded its predecessors. Like chess, the game requires focus and strategic approach. On the field of 8x8, each player has 24 tiles: soldiers in rank from privates to generals, ship, gun, moon, atomic bomb, a tank, a spy, a bomber and a key figure - the flag. Moving across the board, you can attack the enemy pieces. Your goal - capture the flag. When attacking each element has a specific "area" lesions. So, the lieutenant at the meeting with the chips the opponent hits the spot soldiers from privates to sergeants, and also destroys spyware, bombers, guns and satellites (I wonder how ...). The entire hierarchy is described in detail in the game. There's also a hint system and the module exercises - in this module, you can see all of the chips, and contender can learn the basics of the strategy. Information line records the time and the result of an attack. Good graphics, all clearly legible. You can choose a favorite of the three types of boards: "marble", "wooden" and "jungle". Beautiful sounds: gunshots, machine guns, pipe notifies you of victory and defeat. Strategy fans will enjoy, fans of board games, checkers and chess.

Metal Strike

Pocket PC

The modern version of combat in an unknown until the military aircraft industry. Your mission - to destroy everything in its path. And the way you will have gunners, grenade throwers, as well as spiteful tanks, which will be a bullet in your colored balls. The developers added and friendly cows, which sometimes will meet you with open arms "(see our camp animals:). Beautiful graphics. All very picturesque and amusing. Seen everything - from a grenade bullets, so go with the line of fire does not cause labor ... if you have to. Sounds good - blows everything except cows, defeated the enemy, too, shouting very artistically. The game has 3 levels: Countryside (Countryside), Barracks (Barracks), City (town), respectively, with the changing landscape. In the demo version you get access only to the first level and a limited number of weapons. The game supports Auto Save - you can later return to the unfinished game and finish it. Do not forget to shoot at the buildings, perhaps they are hiding extra shells, protective sloii extra points. Another addition - move your camera while shooting - shoot faster.

Chopper Rescue

Pocket PC

"Ready?" Go! Go! Go! Our guys are in trouble, it all depends on you, pick up the helicopter immediately! »Chopper Rescue (" Rescue Helicopter) - your side, you need to get to the enemy camp, fired all of its facilities, out of the way the whole armor, air defenses to avoid and withdraw its from captivity. The helicopter can take up to 5 people for each job your dashboard reflects the number of people who need to deliver back to their camp. Be careful - the time is limited. Late - the fate of our guys will be tragic. Yes, and you will not regret. The fact that the game you will find something really exciting, it becomes clear from the very first time after its launch. Graphics great. Flying at sunset - in the best tradition of Hollywood. Sounds - too well done. In short, there is all to the extent possible, give you feel like a military helicopter pilot ... As far as possible on the PDA. You will need to learn to take off and land, turn around and shoot at ground targets. Bomb facilities, prisoners will be released from the smashed objects. To land as close as possible. 2 levels in the demo and 25 registered.

Pocket War

Pocket PC

Classical volume turn-based strategy. You yourself are setting the size of maps and the degree of difficulty. Moreover, each new run generates a new map, so that you can play for a long time. Players take turns building and moving equipment, and train soldiers and relocate their troops. On the map a lot of cities that can be won and a lot of technology - fighters, bombers, tanks, a new version appeared, even a submarine. For each item, and each division marked its purpose - defense, attack, movement to a specific point, etc. For the successful conduct of the battle to get acquainted with the purpose and capabilities of all elements of the game: each unit is characterized by a duration of production (training), speed of movement, the affected area, etc. My attempts to learn the details of the game failed. I had to read the instructions carefully to understand how to coordinate all forces on the way to victory. Tired of playing with a faceless machine? Developers provided a multiplayer option. Despite the apparent complexity, after reading the instructions quickly learn, and all those many buttons and control panels are not afraid, and vice versa - fascinate and amaze many opportunities. On the map a number of cities, each of them produces a new force - infantry, tanks, aircraft ...At every step you take your car meets - rather cautious and prudent, therefore, think over everything in advance.

Siberian Strike

Palm and Pocket PC

The game's plot, described by the creators, it leaves much to be desired. Here are mixed, and some technological developments based on vodka, and a clone of Stalin with someone ... will not repeat. The bottom line is that you pilot an airplane. When choosing your character, you, respectively, got me a model airplane. The main advantage of the game - the graphics. You fly past the clouds around you, the enemy planes that need to shoot and avoid their bullets. You managed to line the aircraft and, behold, he falls into the sea, releasing a cloud of smoke behind him. The enemy is defeated, but his medals in the air! Grab it! But the weapon flies ... And here is a bonus ... Turns the steering wheel and everything will be fine. There are versions of games for Palm and Pocket PC.

Battle City

Palm

I remember the first video game consoles. Children and teenagers crowded into basements and sit home, hunched over, keeping a stranglehold on the remote and unblinking eyes staring at the screen. Many years passed. Nothing has changed. Except for the size of gaming devices. Now those same games can be enjoyed at the CCP. Battle City ("City fights") - a classic game of those times. I remember, still played on the dispute - who pick up more points. Excitement continues to this day. You drive a tank in urban environments. Urban environment presents a number of walls. Need to destroy opponents, not to get myself, get to a certain shape and shoot her. Although ... In spite of what you rank. To the extent of your achievements in outdoor tank battles, you will be sent to the increasingly complex tasks. And then there is something good will to work hard to not be trapped. The graphics in this game is quite simple, commensurate with what was on the game consoles. In Battle City offered 4 jobs on 15 levels each. Tweak control for themselves, change the speed of the game - and more!

ShipHunt

Palm

"I've always been fascinated by submarines, - said John Coogan, creator of the Ship Hunt. - Nevertheless, I have never played or seen Simulations submarines. When creating Ship Hunt I'm just going into a coherent whole the information from the Internet and other sources. ... I wanted to create a game which would have to take the same decision that took the captains of World War II ... " In the game you need to control the flow of air, battery power, fuel capacity, armament - all for what should follow on this submarine. Screen of your display into a single dashboard with an overview of the periscope. As captain, you and only you will make a decision. Few gave the order: "Dive!". You must specify the exact angle of dip, but still in time to return the boat to its normal state. You are responsible for performing tasks of the General Staff. And above you - as warships and trading! Do not miss! And in general, be careful - torpedoes here in depth, take nowhere. And their you have only 28 pieces. You are responsible for the whole team for a submarine. You and only you are responsible for the assignment. And that you will win if successful. Happy holiday! Happy Victory Day! On May 9th! The authors, translation:

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.

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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.

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