Oct 26th

Nostradamus: The Last Prophecy

By Bill (R&D, SpecialEffect)

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PC - Big Fish Games
This is a point and click adventure where players can go at their own pace to solve the clues as to why members of an influential family are being murdered. In the game you must play as Nostradamus’ daughter Madeliene, disguised as her brother in order to get to the bottom of the curse.

Oct 26th

Chocolatier: Dacadence By Design

By Bill (R&D, SpecialEffect)
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PC (opens in a separate window) - Big Fish Games
‘Become a confectionary tycoon!’ Your objective is to collect ingredients from around the world to make chocolate recipes or create new flavour combinations from the factory in Zurich. The key is to create a variety of stock to keep interest in your product and keep the shops buying.
Oct 26th

Zuma and Luxor

By Bill (R&D, SpecialEffect)
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PC (opens in a separate window) - Bif Fish Games

The genre of ‘Marble Popper’ games is vast. The aim of them is to fire a marble into a trail of multicoloured marbles to form groups of 3 of more, and thus reduce the trail in length and eventually altogether before it reaches the end of the trail. The main (some would say the only) difference between the different versions is the graphics and locations, which package the gameplay.
Oct 26th

Carnival Funfair Games

By Bill (R&D, SpecialEffect)
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Wii -2K Play
‘Experience all the fun and excitement of the funfair.’ A bit hit and miss (excuse the pun), ‘Carnival: Funfair Games’ offers more than 25 different games including a shooting gallery, a dunk tank and test your strength. Most of the games are quick and easy to pick up and some don’t require any buttons just the motion of the wiimote, which allows for ease of playability and more intuitive controls, such as Alley Ball, Frog Leap and Spilled Milk.
Oct 26th

Fashion Finder: Secrets Of Fashion NYC Edition

By Bill (R&D, SpecialEffect)
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PC - Worldwide Biggies
‘Do you have an eye for fashion?’ In the game you play Abigail Andrews, who as been hired at an ailing, once popular fashion magazine, to help it fly off the shelves once again. Using a keen eye you must find examples of the latest must have fashion items updated from the editor to your blackberry. Then snap them to show her and put into a magazine spread.
Oct 26th

Nano Sucker

By Bill (R&D, SpecialEffect)
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PC - Burt Blackwell

A game which is played with only one switch, the player must eat up the virus cells before they take over by multiplying and infecting other cells. Each level becomes more difficult as the areas it starts to grow from increases. The object you control to attack the virus rotates when stationary and you hold the spacebar/ switch when facing the right direction to travel forwards.
Oct 26th

Star Trigon

By Bill (R&D, SpecialEffect)
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PC (opens in a separate window) - Namco

Namco have made an entirely switch accessible game. The menu can be scanned, by switching to ‘disability’ mode and the gameplay itself relies only on a single key/ switch.  The aim as a ‘Delta AC Recruit’ is to catch the stranded ‘Uchujin’ characters lost in space, using Dr Z’s invention, by forming triangles round them.
Oct 26th

Future Pinball

By Bill (R&D, SpecialEffect)

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PC (opens in a separate window) - BSP Software Design Solutions

Future Pinball allows you to design your own pinball machines, either starting from scratch or adapting existing tables. This requires some basic scripting skills, of which tips can be found online. Imaginative users of the software can make versions of other types of games or sports such as golf, pool or football.

Oct 26th

PC Boules (V. 1.2)

By Bill (R&D, SpecialEffect)
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PC (opens in a separate window) - Errezed
The controls for this version of the French game Petanque are simple. The directional arrow scans left and right (of which the area it covers can be shifted using the left and right arrow keys/ switches) and when it is pointing the direction you want to throw it in press the space bar/ switch.

Oct 26th

Football Manager 2010

By Bill (R&D, SpecialEffect)
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PC (can be opened in a separate window) - Sports Interactive/Sega

Either start a the top or the bottom of your profession i.e. as the tag line states ‘THE GREATEST JOB ON EARTH!’ Whether you choose to manage Oxford United or Manchester United the challenges are many and varied, whether it’s managing to claim your first away victory or simply staving off injury from your star striker.