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As the sequel to the popular Delicious Deluxe, the newly-released Delicious 2 Deluxe delivers even more fast-paced restaurant management fun!

Gamers will be reacquainted with the game’s heroine Emily and will guide her through five all-new themed restaurants on her quest to rescue the family business. Use your earnings to purchase decorations, sure to make your customers smile. Emily’s friends and family are on hand to help, but it’s going to take your serving savvy to get Uncle Antonio back on track.

Featuring two game modes, all-new customers, and hours of family fun, Delicious 2 Deluxe is just the thing to satisfy your craving for fun!

Here’s what Gamezebo had to say about the game in their review:

“Well-polished and unquestionably entertaining, Delicious 2 Deluxe offers five nicely varied establishments to manage, while its levels are increasingly difficult to conquer. Though it’s not hugely different in essence from the original, there are enough nuances here to make the whole experience fresh and fun, while the visuals have also received a thorough buffing.”

Also be sure to check out Gamezebo’s Delicious 2 Deluxe Tips & Tricks article for a huge number of pointers to help you play yout way through this challenging and endearing game.

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The Richochet series of breakout-style arcade games from Reflexive Entertainment have become classics of the genre, featuring graphics and game play that quickly made the series a favorite in offices and homes across the world. The games in this series have included Ricochet Xtreme, Ricochet Lost Worlds, and Ricochet Lost Worlds: Recharged.

Now there a new edition in this popular series, Ricochet Infinity, which re-invents the genre and will forever change the way you think about brick-busting games.

Ricochet Infinity introduces a new way to play the game by putting the player in direct control of the ball. Instead of waiting for the ball to return to the paddle, with ‘Recall’ players can at any time, change the ball’s direction, giving full control during every second of the game, and not just when the ball hits the paddle.

“Once you play Ricochet with the new Recall ability, there is no going back,” said Ion Hardie, Lead Level Designer on Ricochet Infinity. “It enhances the game play so much you’ll wonder how you played a brick-busting game without it.”

Like previous Ricochet games, Ricochet Infinity has been created with community in mind, enabling gamers to create and share levels with other players all over the world. Unlike previous Ricochet games, players can now download, rate and tag new levels without ever leaving the game. Unique to Ricochet Infinity, this new ability to directly download levels from within the game makes it easier than ever before for players to trade levels. Players will be able to watch and see the levels they create climb through the ranks of the most downloaded levels, and perhaps become the next online sensation.

“Ricochet Infinity has an endless supply of new levels being created by a very diverse group of imaginative level designers from around the world,” said James C. Smith, lead developer and creator of Ricochet. “The flexibility of the Infinity scripting engine enables very unique types of levels to be created. With hundreds of new level being released each month, Ricochet Infinity’s ability to sort, rate and tag levels becomes an invaluable tool to find the levels you want to play.”

Reflexive Entertainment hasn’t contented itself with creating what is essentially the world’s first Web 2.0 game and making it more fun and playable than any other game in its class by adding direct ball control. Ricochet Infinity also features a whole new array of devastating power-ups to go along with all the old favorites, new stunning graphics that await you as you travel to unknown alien worlds, a techno-pumped soundtrack, over 200 included levels from the world’s best level designers, the addition of new vector art and scripting tools to what was already the world’s best level editor, trophies, achievements, ball skins, player character development, 24 different ships each with special abilities, Mouse Party™ for same machine competitive and cooperative multiplayer play, and Ricochet’s new mascot, an alien companion to keep you company.

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Indie developer Lobstersoft has released a Windows version of the hit Nintendo DS game Picross, called Gemsweeper.

Gemsweeper features unique gameplay, easy to learn rules, brilliant graphics and sound, two different game modes and 225 fun levels. It does not require fast reflexes and is even easy for kids to learn, but requires enough strategy to keep you hooked for hours. This makes Gemsweeper a must have for every puzzle game fan.

Gemsweeper is set in an ancient Mayan temple city, and your goal is to fully restore all of the glorious monuments of old. The puzzles in this thrilling game are made of 5×5 up to 30×30 tiles that are all faced down. Your job is to uncover gems which are hidden behind some of the tiles and to break tiles which are cursed. Numerical clues above and to the left of the board tell you where the hidden gems are. Use these clues wisely, and you will be able to solve the puzzles without having to guess.

Gemsweeper will put your mind to work, but the rules are very easy to learn. Thanks to the interactive tutorial, you’ll be digging for gems in no time. And if you should ever get stuck, Professor McGuffog will put you right back on track with various useful hints. There are many different ways to solve the game, and the difficulty level ranges from very easy to highly challenging puzzles which makes Gemsweeper interesting for both beginner and experienced players.

You can test Gemsweeper now for free by downloading the trial version, or buy the full version to enjoy this exciting puzzle adventure right now. There’s absolutely no risk - there is a 60-day unconditional money-back guarantee, so there’s absolutely no risk.

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In this interesting and well-done match-three style puzzle game you set out on an adventurous quest around the ancient lands of the Mediterranean to find a way to bring the legendary continent of Atlantis back to the surface and restore it to its might and glory.

In every country you visit (including Greece, Troy, Phoenicia, Babylon, Egypt, Carthage and Rome), your job is to assemble a precious artifact, one of the seven powers of the patron god of the Atlanteans, Poseidon. The game offers 77 captivating levels of addictive gameplay with quite impressive power-ups and handy bonuses.

Once you complete the journey you do not only get to see Atlantis rise but also receive a well-deserved reward - a complimentary animated Atlantis 3D Screensaver that will remind you of your glorious achievements.

The Rise of Atlantis was developed by Terminal Studio, which also created such popular games as Atlantis Quest and Brickshooter Egypt. Terminal Studio is an independent game development company that specializes in fun PC games for all the family as well as innovative high-quality 3D screensavers.

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Pocketwatch Games has donated 4% of the income generated in 2006 by Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa to The WILD Foundation, a Boulder, CO based non-profit dedicated to protecting animal habitats in Africa.

Pocketwatch Games will also motivate others to support The WILD Foundation by providing a link to the WILD website in their upcoming game, Venture Arctic.

Pocketwatch Games has described the “Venture” series of PC/Mac video games as the ultimate “Interactive Nature Documentaries”. The games allow players to create and control animals in a variety of biomes around the world. Venture Arctic also requires players to deal with challenges facing modern ecosystems such as global warming and deforestation.

“When we released Venture Africa, we made a promise to our customers that we would help to protect the animals that inspired us,” said Andy Schatz, CEO and Founder of Pocketwatch Games. “I know our donation to The WILD Foundation is working directly to protect the precious animal habitats in Africa.”

The cash donation is significant since it is coming from an independent video game studio. Typically, “indie” studios operate on such a small budget that they cannot afford to make charitable contributions. Pocketwatch Games founder Andy Schatz was the sole programmer and designer of Venture Africa (PC), which had a total development budget of 8,000 dollars.

The WILD Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Boulder, Colorado. WILD works internationally to protect and sustain wilderness and wildlife while meeting the needs of human communities. For more information, visit www.wild.org.

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