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Released: Dream Day Wedding: Viva Las Vegas

Play the next part in the hit hidden object wedding series, Dream Day Wedding: Viva Las Vegas. As the hottest new wedding planner in the country, your reputation is taking you from the Big Apple to Sin City! A high rolling bride is placing all bets on you to prepare for her big day. The stakes are high as you manage important tasks while keeping the bride, groom, and mother of the bride happy in this opulent destination. Get ready to hit the jackpot!

• Try your luck in the casino to earn and spend points
• Adventure and escape puzzles
• Mini games and wedding crisis levels
• All-new “Choose a Story” - your decision could affect the path of the game

Try Dream Day Wedding: Viva Las Vegas.

Megaplex Madness for 99 Cents

Big Fish Games has Megaplex Madness: Now Playing for 99 cents good through May 31, 2009. Use the following coupon code: MEGA99.

About Megaplex Madness: Now Playing:

Restore the historic Bowmont Theater as the first act of your mad dash to bring cinematic excitement back to Movieville! Purchase ailing theaters all over town and return them to their former glory. Keep customers happy with quick service and delicious concessions! Become a Megaplex Expert to gain access to fun arcade mini-games, and master levels to unlock theater repairs and upgrades. Get caught up in the Megaplex Madness today!

Coming Soon: Wedding Dash: Ready, Aim, Love!

Some of you might think I’m nuts, but I prefer Wedding Dash to Diner Dash. Oh, I love that Flo, but I find her games too hard to play. Quinn’s world starts easy and builds up the challenge little by little. In Wedding Dash: Ready, Aim, Love! Cupid joins Quinn plus Flo has a bigger role as she takes care of serving the wedding guests.

This one introduces a new mini-game for a cute change of pace that integrates nicely with the story. Cupid needs to shoot arrows at a male and female that matches the couple shown. You control where he shoots the arrow and how hard he shoots it. Oh, by the way, Cupid looks nothing like a cherub; more like a kind-looking grandfather. The mini-game occurs about halfway through each level.

Quinn also holds the weddings in unique locales beginning with an aquarium. Really — it’s a calming scene that looks made for a wedding. Then she moves to a barn and to the boardwalk, which has a fab background.

Ready, Aim, Love! adds several twists to enhance the game instead of give us more of the same. In previous versions, players have to select three things that match the couple’s request. You can have different good answers in this one. Instead, Quinn has a budget and she has to pick three things to meet the budget or better yet, have some money leftover. For instance, a couple wants to reflect their trip to India and match its orange, white and green flag. So pick the items that are orange, white and green or perhaps as something related to India like curry.

We also meet new guests. No more weepy Aunt Ethel and Drunk Uncle Ernie. Quinn will take care of all the crises as usual, but we meet new ones. Meet a wedding crasher that you need to lead him to the exit and Rosie with her little puppy. Rosy cries whenever her pup gets away. Quinn needs to cheer her up, find the dog and return it to her. The twins who must do everything together including be served to at the same time return. We meet new handsome and sweet people like Brian, Jason and the three bridesmaid friends. They’re a nice change from Gloria. Then we have the mother of the bride — a very difficult customer to please.

Gone is the confetti machine and champagne bottles. Instead, Quinn has lovely cocktail tables to help the guests remain patient a little longer. Also new is the microphone that lets the guests say something to the happy couple. Quinn earns love tokens to use in shopping for upgrades. While upgrades appear in many time management games, Ready, Aim, Love! offers many upgrades instead of just three to make it more challenging and to change things up enough to add to the replay value.

This looks like it’ll exceed Wedding Dash fan expectations. The game release date is within a couple of months. No official date yet. Hey, even wedding couples don’t always have a date set right away. And it will be available for both Win and Mac computers. In the meantime, you’ll have to settle for Wedding Dash 2 until this one is ready for prime time at Playfirst.

New: The Serpent of Isis

The casual games industry is giving The Serpent of Isis high accolades. I haven’t checked it myself as I’m swamped with client projects. Here are the details:

Someone stole the legendary artwork, The Serpent of Isis, from the grand opening of the Egypt Museum in Cairo. Your character’s grandfather originally discovered the artifact that has been missing for years. An anonymous letter arrives saying that the person who has the artwork is on board the Mont Palu Express. Catch the train to find the artwork and solve the ancient mystery.

Although the artifact comes the very popular hidden object game setting of Egypt, the action doesn’t all take place in Cairo. In fact, it ends in London — one of the first places I want to visit outside of North America.

Game du Jour: President’s Day Week 2009

The following games will be discounted next week on Game du Jour, the ‘one-deal-a-day’ website dedicated to indie and casual games:

Mon. February 16th: 40% off on Funny Chewer

Tue. February 17th: 50% off on Freecell Wizard

Wed. February 18th: 50% off on Pet Vet 3D Animal Hospital

Thu. February 19th: 50% off on Crazy Machines 1.5

Fri. February 20th: 50% off on Pet Vet 3D Wild Animal Hospital

Sat. February 21st: 50% off on Engineer 2

Sun. February 22nd: 50% off on Solitaire Wizard

President’s Day Sale on Games

Both Big Fish Games and PlayFirst have President’s Day Sales going on. While most of us don’t get the day off, we’ll take the sales. Thank you to our Presidents for serving our country in a difficult job.

Big Fish Games: Celebrate President’s day with a special offer from Big Fish Games. Get Floating Kingdoms for only $1.00 when you enter the coupon code: ONEBUCK when purchasing the game. Offer expires 02/17.

PlayFirst: We are celebrating with a holiday SALE on selected PlayFirst favorites and award winners. Diner Dash, Cooking Dash, Dream Chronicles and many more are available for as low as $6.95. Sale ends 2.16.09.

Game du Jour: Week of February 9

The following games will be discounted next week on Game du Jour, the ‘one-deal-a-day’ website dedicated to indie and casual games:

Mon. February 9th: 50% off on Fruity Logic

Tue. February 10th: 50% off on Bookstories

Wed. February 11th: 50% off on Monkey’s Tower

Thu. February 12th: 50% off on Fashion Story

Fri. February 13th: 60% off on Spirits of Metropolis

Sat. February 14th: 50% off on Lost In Reefs

Sun. February 15th: 50% off on MiniOne Racing

Chocolatier Goes Mobile for Verizon Customers

Make yummy chocolates during Valentine’s Day with Chocolatier on mobile! Verizon customers Text CHOCO to GAME (4263) to play Chocolatier anytime, anywhere on your cell phone.

Text CHOCO to 4263.

Man, it’s a shame I don’t have Verizon mobile. I’d love to see how this looks and plays on the small screen. If you know — please share.

Game du Jour: Week of Historic Inauguration

The following games will be discounted next week on Game du Jour, the ‘one-deal-a-day’ website dedicated to indie and casual games:

Mon. January 19th: 50% off on Pyramid Solitaire

Tue. January 20th: 50% off on New Star Soccer 4

Wed. January 21st: 50% off on Supernova 2: Spacewar

Thu. January 22nd: 50% off on Jools

Fri. January 23rd: 50% off on Depths of Peril

Sat. January 24th: 50% off on Baroness Solitaire

Sun. January 25th: 40% off on Arcade Race - Crash!

Game du Jour: Week of January 12

The following games will be discounted next week on Game du Jour, the ‘one-deal-a-day’ website dedicated to indie and casual games:

Mon. January 12th: 50% off on Solitaire Studio

Tue. January 13th: 50% off on Stardrone

Wed. January 14th: 50% off on 3C Texas Holdem Poker

Thu. January 15th: 50% off on Hollow Ground SE

Fri. January 16th: 50% off on Ashley Jones: The Heart Of Egypt

Sat. January 17th: 50% off on Tic Tac Files

Sun. January 18th: 50% off on