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Puzzle Games EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Ode to Joy: Peggle making it to PS3 this week 17 PopCap's plan to bring the utterly delightful Peggle to every conceivable platform is coming to fruition. This week, the PlayStation 3 version comes out of hiding. On Thursday, PlayStation Networ... This week on XBLA: Diner Dash and Gyromancer 16 Generally speaking, there doesn't seem to be much rhyme or rhythm to the Xbox LIVE Arcade release schedule. But if I had to make a guess, I'd say the theme for this Wednesday's games, Gyromancer ... Review: Arkedo Series - 02 SWAP! 4 A few weeks ago, indie game developer Arkedo sent me an e-mail titled "An Easy Game from Arkedo to Dtoid, with Love": "Do you think it would be possible to have your mad skillz colleague try and ... Yuji Naka's Ivy the Kiwi should be on the DS 10 A action/puzzle game with touch screen controls and a quirky art style? It's gotta be a DS game, right? Evidently not. Yuji Naka, former Sonic Team lead and now head of Prope, who made the crimi... Monday Mind Teasers: Colour My World 13 This week's mind teaser uses even less color than last week's fun hacking simulator game. Colour My World was rated as one of the top five Newgrounds games of October, and when you beat it in jus... Gyromancer gets dated, trailerized 13 The offspring of PopCap and Square Enix -- y'know, the one that sounds an awful lot like something you'd stick in your mouth -- is nearly upon us. When we last checked in, there was a discussion... Preview: Rooms: The Main Building 5 When we were figuring out who was going to cover what game at Hudson's Gamers' Day, one of the titles that we knew very little about (okay, nothing) was listed only as Rooms. Rooms, what's Rooms?... Monday Mind Teasers: Exploit 4 Last week's outdoors creature killer tactics game was inspired by a recent camping trip, whereas this week's hacking mind teaser is inspired by the start of dropping temperatures and my winter re... Review: Lost Winds: The Winter of the Melodias 17 When I heard the news that a second Lost Winds game was coming out I knew I had to finally download the first game and become a big fan of it. So I did download it and I did become a big fan of i... Reminder: Barf to win Critter Crunch codes, shirts & art! 97 Critter Crunch is a puzzle game on the PlayStation Network where you have to solve puzzles and vomit into your children's mouths in order to feed them. Yup. Best game concept ever. Capybara Game... SWAP!, Arkedo's second Xbox Indie game 3 Arkedo is keeping their promise of one game a month on the Xbox Live Indie Games channel with their new game, SWAP! SWAP! is a dual-stick action puzzle game where you have to move one block at a... Monday Mind Teasers: Bloody Fun Day 6 Did everyone escape the clutches of last week's locked room game? Great! This week we face a whole different type of mind teaser game, with both turn-based and path-based strategies to consider a... Beautiful Critter Crunch concepts, courtesy of Capybara 13 Nick found Capybara Games' PlayStation Network debut Critter Crunch, a colorful food-chaining puzzler, to be "one of the best values in puzzle gaming you'll find this year," but, so far... Monday Mind Teasers: Sagrario’s Room Escape 21 Calling all claustrophobics! Step right up, and don't bother closing the door behind you because it's already closed. And locked. And, oh, look at that. The handle is missing. I hate it when that... On XBLA this week: Panzer General and Tower Bloxx Deluxe 1 Since it seems like we gave Microsoft crap every single time a $15 Xbox LIVE Arcade game was put out -- even if the game was worthy of that price -- let me take this opportunity to say wow, there... Critter Crunch PSN sales disappoint, demo coming soon 85 I don't know what it's going to take to get this through to you: If you own a PlayStation 3 and enjoy games, you should go log into the PlayStation Store and buy Capybara Games' Critter Crunch. &... Monday Mind Teasers: Tank Search 27 With a name like Tank Search, you might expect another violent game like last week's KOI2, but instead we'll just be looking for tanks -- not using them. Paperbat's game is very simple and very a... Critter Crunch launches with A Barf in the Night 17  Capybara's rather delightful Critter Crunch comes out today, and we here at Dtoid figured we'd celebrate by getting our multiplayer on and hurling all over one another. Just another good ol... Review: Critter Crunch (PSN) 32 Toronto-based developed Capybara games has been around for awhile, likely doing a bunch of stuff you might have overlooked. If you haven't heard of them, I wouldn't blame you. Maybe you've had a ... LIT comes to PAL regions this October 30th 3 You may recall way back when we review WayForward's horror puzzler LIT, and how much I enjoyed the title (it was a bit of a surprise to find something so good on WiiWare in the sea of generic puz... Sim City meets Tetris in indie game City Rain 12 As Nick said way back in August of last year when he played City Rain, mashing the two distinct concepts together is "ridiculous enough that it actually works." The 2009 Independent Gam... Dying to play The Incredible Machine? GOG has your back 17 Whoa! Now this brings me back.Occasionally when the PC digital distribution service Good Old Games adds to its catalog of games, I have a hard time figuring out exactly what to say for a news pos... Geon Cube is more super and Pac-Man than Super Pac-Man 13 Have you heard of Geon Cube? Yeah, I didn't think so; I hadn't either until I got this press release. That lack of press alone probably spells doom for this game. No matter how great it turns out... Gyromancer began life as a joke 4 PopCap and Square Enix's Final Fantasy Bejeweled, or as I like to call it, Gyromancer, started similar to how most videogames do: as a joke. Alright, maybe that's just how it happens in my mind a... Monday (mutilation) Mind Teasers: Karoshi series 5 Last week we played through a game where your future self torments you. This week we just plain old fashion torment ourselves. "Karoshi" is a Japanese word for "death by overwork&q... Mr. Destructoid gets the Critter Crunch treatment 31 Qiqo, the artist responsible for the characters of upcoming puzzle game Critter Crunch decided to have a bit of fun with the main character of the game, Biggs. Qiqo took Biggs and blended him up ... XBLA this week: Bust-A-Move, Military Madness, and more 16 Ever notice how an increasing number of new Xbox LIVE Arcade games have decided to randomly feature Avatars, usually to serve no actual purpose whatsoever? Yeah, so I'm not alone then. Good news ... Machinarium rolls out new trailer and release date 15 I like the late night Sunday post because it means that i know one of my stories is going to be seen on Monday morning when everyone gets to work and immeadiatley starts not doing work by reading... Arkanoid making a comeback on WiiWare 9 Square Enix and Taito are have updated the classic Arkanoid for WiiWare. Arkanoid Plus! will have multiplayer, co-op, arcade mode, time mode, 122 levels and tons of upgrades and power-ups. There'... TGS 09: Love Puzzle Quest? Then check out Gyromancer 10 PopCap Games has teamed up with Square Enix for a little RPG/puzzle hybrid action that's bound to hit Steam and Xbox LIVE Arcade. Gyromancer, as it's called, could easily be mistaken for Puzzle Q... TGS 09: Puyo Puyo 7 for Wii, DS, PSP, bonus skeleton 7 Skeletons. That's how you start off a good morning. Bonus points if they happen to be part of a new version of the competitive action puzzler, Puyo Puyo. So what's different this time around? In ... BARF RAINBOWS! Critter Crunch dated and priced 4 Critter Crunch is coming to PlayStation Network on October 8 and best of all, it’s going to cost you just $6.99! Why so cheap? Because Capy loves you, that's why! THEY LOVE YOU SO MUCH THEY... Deadly zeppelins and Doctor Who: Nivel21's Rotor'scope 12 With the success of Level-5's Professor Layton series (thanks, Lisa Kudrow!) it's not altogether surprising that other puzzle games, like Nivel21's upcoming Rotor'scope: The Secret of Endless Ene... Monday Mind Teasers: Time Fcuk 4 So how did last week's browser Diablo 2 clone game go? Did you point and click to your heart's content? Good. Because now I've got much more of a "mind teaser" game for you, and it come... Scribblenauts announces a special announcement coming 24 If you're like me or Jim "Not as cool as Hamza" Sterling, you found Scribblenauts to be a valiant effort that bit off a bit more than it could chew... and had crappy controls. Still, if... Konami brings Reflection to DSiWare 8 DsiWare has kind of bleh since its launch, with my only two notable favorites being Mighty Flip Champs and Pictobits (although I am quite looking forward to the new Shantae game!). Perhaps Konami... Scribblenauts the start of a 'mass-market franchise' 35 Warner Bros. has big in things in store for 5th Cell's long-awaited DS puzzler Scribblenauts. The game, released today, has been compared to Professor Layton by the publisher, with a belief that ... Review: Zuma's Revenge 9 Sometimes I imagine the puzzle game masterminds at PopCap as mad scientists, all hunched over a table in a dark underground laboratory, doing something unworldly to their games to make them as ad... Bubble Bobble Neo!, C&C Commander's Challenge on XBLA 16 Two new games are headed to Xbox LIVE Arcade this week: Bubble Bobble Neo! and Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 Commander's Challenge (or C&CRA3CC for short). Both will set you back 800 Micr... The more you know: Silly Trials HD secret uncovered 11 Warning: what you are about to hear will undoubtedly cause you to boot up your Xbox 360 and play Trials HD to see RedLynx's "secret" feature.In case you didn't know -- for the record, I... Hands-on: Critter Crunch (PSN) 10 If Critter Crunch, an upcoming arcade puzzle game for the PlayStation Network, was on the Penny Arcade Expo show floor last weekend, I would have nominated it for Game of The Show. Granted, a puz... Monday Mind Teasers: Walking In Circles 5 On our previous flash adventure we ran into yet another locked room and most of us promptly conquered the “escape the room” in record time. However, this time around the block won't b... Capcom offers up discounted game bundles on PSN 10 If you're among the many people who've waited until the price drop or the Slim's release this week to get a PS3, Capcom has you covered when it comes to filling your barren new hard drive. The co... Taito busts a move with Puzzle Bobble Live! for XBLA 12 Taito has announced today in Japan that Puzzle Bobble Live! is on its way to XBLA, priced at 800 MS points, bringing along this gallery full of screenshots with it. If you live in North America, ... Flashbang's Time Donkey is now available on Blurst 7 Flashbang Studios, purveyors of weird and creators of Off-Road Velociraptor Safari and Jetpack Brontosaurus, have released a new game. It's called Time Donkey, it was made in eight weeks, and you... Critter Crunch makes me wish I could vomit rainbows 8 Never did I imagine that I would fall for a game that involved your character throwing up into other creatures mouths. Everything about Critter Crunch just looks so delightful! The character ani... Lumines comes to the iPhone despite the lack of buttons 7 Look, I love puzzle game Lumines dearly, as do I my iPhone. It's just that I don't see the two mixing together well. Lumines requires quick reaction times and accurate control, neither of which t... GC 09: Super Monkey Ball S&R makes me hungry for bananas 8 As Sonic has been getting worse and worse with each new game, the Super Monkey Ball series has fast become my favorite Sega franchise. The Super Monkey Ball games are few and far between but each... Monday Mind Teasers: Swan's Room 5 Last week had not one, but twelve puzzles for you to peruse over in the past week, and I encourage you to go back and give them each a try if you haven't yet. However, if you're all caught up and... Review: Trials HD 40 At first glance, Trials HD didn't look like my type of game. It's sort of a hybrid racing game/physics puzzler with a heavy emphasis on demanding perfection. Skill-based games like this aren't ex... Review: Space Bust-A-Move 9 Ah, Bust-A-Move. No matter how many incarnations of the little game seem to come about, I'm always interested in playing another one and losing myself in that mindless but addictive puzzle action... Monday Mind Teasers: GROW Games 13 Anyone beat last week's mind teaser yet? Didn't think so. Okay, no more games until we get past that hellacious hurdle -- see you next week!Okay, okay, okay. I'm not that cruel. But I am cruel en... Harvest Moon comes to the iPhone with Frantic Farming 9 Natsume have apparently decided to join the iPhone gold rush by announcing their first iPhone game, Harvest Moon: Frantic Farming. The game boasts both a Mission and Score Attack mode and appears... Monday Mind Teasers: Not Pr0n 18 Last week's trip down mind teaser memory lane brought us back to the clicking nightmare known as Crimson Room. Now that some of us have escaped once again with our sanities intact, we run in fear... Shatter's fantastic soundtrack available for download 12 I’ve been gushing over the Shatter soundtrack ever since I saw the first trailer for the game, yet I somehow missed the news that the soundtrack was released over a week ago. The soundtrac... Monday Mind Teasers: Crimson Room 24 "Ahhhh!" "The horror!" "Minimize in fear!" These screams might well describe your reaction to this game back in 2004 when it first hit the Internet. And boy did it h... Review: Roogoo: Twisted Towers 5 For the people who played Roogoo on Xbox LIVE Arcade (the game's original platform), they discovered a challenging little puzzle game with an addictive multiplayer that could get you yelling at y... Monday Mind Teasers: Samorost 1 & Samorost 2 4 After last week's little game Little Wheel, I decided to make this week dedicated to the game that heavily influenced it and countless of other online flash games back in the day. Is Samorost old... 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