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WorldWinner, the leading provider of online game competitions, has launched new cash competitions in the wildly popular online casual game, Diner Dash, and its sequels Diner Dash 2: Restaurant Rescue, Diner Dash: Flo on the Go, and Diner Dash: Hometown Hero.

In the cash competition version of Diner Dash, players compete against one another in helping Flo manage a crowd of customers by taking orders, serving drinks and food, clearing dishes and collecting tips. Players earn points by serving customers successfully within the five minute time limit. Additional scoring components, such as the ability to choose one of four Power-Up abilities to best suit a player’s style and the inclusion of six different customer types with unique personalities, have been incorporated. The skill-based game features 15 different restaurant themes as featured in the retail version of Diner Dash.

Developed by the award-winning independent studio Gamelab, Diner Dash follows former stock broker Flo as she quits her corporate job to operate her own roadside diner, growing it into a five-star restaurant. The top-selling Diner Dash game debuted as a downloadable title in 2004 and is now one of the most popular casual games available online.

“Diner Dash has such a strong following in the casual games community, making it an excellent addition to our WorldWinner portfolio,” said Peter Blacklow, president of WorldWinner. “Based on the past success of Diner Dash, we expect the WorldWinner cash competition versions to be a hit for fans of Flo, old and new.”

“Since Diner Dash first launched in 2004, it has been a number one hit across major online game portals, mobile and retail, and a popular handheld title, proving that casual gamers love to play their favorite game on many platforms,” said Rich Roberts, vice president of sales and business development, PlayFirst. “Introducing cash competitions for Diner Dash with WorldWinner will give fans a new way to experience the game, while introducing the WorldWinner community to one of the most popular casual game properties.”

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The elves of the casual game industry have been busy, and a number of holiday-themed games have been released just in time to celebrate the upcoming Christmas season:

	Santa’s Super Friends Mr. Stink stole all the toys, right before Christmas! Santa’s Super Friends need your help to make enough toys to save the magical holiday!
	Holly: A Christmas Tale Grab a cup of cocoa, put on some Yuletide music and play this wonderful hidden object game, guaranteed to fill you with the spirit of the season!
	Jewel Match Winter Wonderland Jewel Match Winter Wonderland will have you aligning jewels and smashing ice boxes as you relax with the sounds of the season!
	Season Match Season Match takes you through a magical kingdom, where you’ll meet three beautiful Princesses of the Seasons and one wicked Winter Queen!
	Christmasville Santa Claus is missing! Help the amazing creatures of Christmasville discover the truth in this hilarious seek and find adventure!
	Holiday Gift Dip into the festive season as you relax and celebrate your match-3 imagination with Holiday Gift!
	Elf Bowling 7 1/7: The Last Insult Who’s your daddy? Lace up your bowling shoes and polish your bowling ball for the wackiest Christmas adventure yet!
	Best Gift Get a gift - the Best Gift! Dip into a world of holiday delights, gifts, treasures, and adventures in this unbelievable puzzler!
	Gift Shop Your Gift Shop is open for business and just in time for the holidays! Sell fabulous gifts to busy holiday shoppers in this jolly puzzler!
	Holiday Bonus Line up the seasonal shapes against stunning snowscape backgrounds as you chill out with this cool puzzle game! Don’t miss the festive fun!
	Holiday Express Arrange the colorful gifts to fill up the Holiday Express train and reveal festive photos in this great holiday-themed game!
	Believe In Santa Help Sandy save her granny’s toy shop, one holiday gift at a time! The pursuit of the perfect present has never been so much fun!
	Family Feud Holiday Edition It is the Family Feud Holiday Edition! Match your wits against the average score, or the entire family!
	Loco Christmas Edition Load Santa’s trains with Christmas presents!
	Santa Claus Save Christmas Help Santa Clause to Save Christmas!
	Snowball Bustout Santa Claus Needs Your Help!
	Bubble Xmas Spread Xmas cheer with new Xmas Bubbles! Shoot three or more of the same color to blow them up! Have Christmas fun, today!

Luxor 3 is the latest incarnation in the best-selling Luxor series of casual games from developer MumboJumbo.

Following in the wake of Luxor, Luxor 2, and Luxor: Amun Rising, Luxor 3 takes you on an ethereal journey as you battle the power-hungry god of Chaos to free the essences of other Egyptian gods before they reach the pyramid at the end of their path.

Like the earlier games, the basic object of the game is to shoot your ball into a moving chain of balls to create three-in-a-row of the same color, at which point they’ll be removed from the board. Along with this familiar gameplay, Luxor 3 adds a number of new game modes, as well a some very devious bonus puzzle levels.

In Luxor 3, you’ll need to utilize reflectors to make nearly impossible matches, make three matches in a row and release supernatural power-ups, and collect Ankh coins to use for purchasing important upgrades. Plus collect canopic jars to unlock bonus levels and hit elusive Golden Scarabs to discover hidden treasures!

In addition to the new game modes and additional power-ups, the biggest change to the game is the remarkably detailed graphics, with parts of the game backgrounds being animated and seemingly alive with movement. Another new feature is the “store”, where you can use the coins you collect during the game to purchase increasingly-powerful power-ups.

Key features of the new game include:

• Original music, enhanced animation and even more spectacular effects
• Seven challenging gameplay modes including five never before seen
• Over 140 nail-biting levels with new features including branching paths and reflectors
• Upgradable power-ups plus exciting ball sets and shooters to unlock
• Utilize reflectors to make matches that were otherwise impossible

More information about Luxor 3
Download Luxor 3 (45.78MB)
Purchase Luxor 3 ($19.99)

Little Shop of Treasures 2 is the highly-anticipated sequel to the popular Little Shop of Treasures, which has been downloaded more than one million times to date.

This all-new seek-and-find adventure game is once again set in the charming town of Huntington, and your task is to help shoppers find the items they need and earn enough money to restore and re-open your Uncle Roy’s gas station.

You will be searching for well-hidden items in a wide variety of Huntington’s shops, including the Import Shop, the hardware store, the beach shop, a craft fair, an estate sale, and an electronics store. The intricately detailed graphics and wide variety of items make the game infinitely fascinating.

It’s tempting just to stop and look at all the strange doodads, gadgets, gizmos, and thingamajigs lining every possible surface of these over-stuffed building, but watch out, because the clock is ticking! If you’re unable to find an item, don’t get frustrated, just click the “hint” button - it won’t show you where the item is at, but it will show you what it looks like, and knowing that is often half the battle.

Little Shop of Treasures 2 offers hours of eye-popping fun for players of all ages!

More information about Little Shop of Treasures 2
Download Little Shop of Treasures 2 (29.7MB)

Bigpoint, with over 9 million players, has long been a top online game destination in Europe, and now it is launching a US gaming portal as well. BigPoint has two features that really make it stand out in the world of online games: quality and price.

BigPoint provides games that feature awesome 3D graphics and sound, and you can play these games right from your web browser, with no complicated installation, downloads, or CD-ROMs required. Bigpoint focuses on high-quality, complex and immersive games, including strategy, action, and sport titles. These titles offer a rich gaming experience that compare very favorably with traditional retail and console games. They’re that good.

And they’re all completely free! Since all the games are free to play, they allow users of all ages and income levels to participate in high-quality gaming fun. Bigpoint’s business model is based on the sale of virtual game items and in-game advertising, and the optional purchases within the games opens the door to useful extra features, and offer the chance of reaching the desired goal within each game more quickly.

Bigpoint not only allows you to play console-quality games against real opponents from all over the world, but also provides access to an active and enthusiastic community of players. Bigpoint is one of the largest online gaming communities anywhere, and I suggest you check out their large collection of titles including the pirate-themed game SeaFight, the science fiction strategy games Space Invasion and Parsec, the space shooter Dark Orbit, the mech fighter XBlaster, Mafia 1930, a strategy game set in the time of Prohibition, the urban street game The Pimps, and sports titles ActionLeague, Soccer Manager, and Hockey Manager.

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