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According to Romance Writers of America, more than 74 million people read romance novels each year. Most of them are women. Independent Vancouver game studio Silicon Sisters invites these women to try something new: playing a romance on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.  The newly released romance game Everlove is now available worldwide on the iTunes App Store. Everlove stars a young woman named Rose who has turned to past-life regression in order to gain insight into her personal problems. Read the rest of this entry »

Now available in public beta on Facebook is Chat Fu social game, the first major release from Toronto’s Blot Interactive. With Chat Fu, you can transform the world’s most popular social network into a word game of wits, wiles and Wushu. Mixing Kung Fu, wordplay and chat, it’s like no social game you’ve ever experienced. Read the rest of this entry »

Big Blue Bubble Inc. has joined musical forces with Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Kristian Bush of Sugarland to collaborate on a brand new character for My Singing Monsters, their award-winning and critically-acclaimed title which is currently enjoying success on multiple platforms.  Bush contributed vocals and mandolin for the ‘Shugabush,’ which was designed and animated by the talented artists at Big Blue Bubble. The collaboration began when Bush – who was introduced to the game by his 11 year old son – tweeted his affection for the game. Creator Dave Kerr responded, and the two eventually connected off-line to dream up a new fedora-wearing, mandolin-strumming character. The Shugabush will make his debut in the game on Monday, July 29. Read the rest of this entry »

Female-focused development studio Silicon Sisters Interactive is pulling back the curtain on their next project: Everlove, a casual game designed to appeal to the more than 74 million people who read romance fiction each year. An interactive narrative that plays like a romance novel brought to life, Everlove will release for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Android in August with versions for PC and Mac to follow. The studio’s co-founder and CEO Brenda Bailey Gershkovitch will show the game for the first time at next week’s Casual Connect conference in San Francisco. Read the rest of this entry »

GREE has announced that Knights & Dragons, a mobile free-to-play iOS game developed in collaboration with IUGO Mobile Entertainment Inc. and published by GREE, has surpassed $1M in monthly revenue. The team aims to double that revenue number over the next couple of months with long term goals reaching as high as $5M in monthly revenue by the end of the year. This is the first game to be released by a partner in the GREE Partners Fund, announced late last year. Read the rest of this entry »

Building on the success of the Ball-Hop game series, Renown Entertainment has released a free, two year anniversary edition for Apple touch devices with exclusive features. Loyal fans and new players alike receive all-new high definition themes, balls, and prizes to redeem. Additional upgrades include super accurate physics, faster restarts and loading, re-tuned swipe controls, improved accuracy, custom sensitivity settings, and support for all screen resolutions including iPhone 5. Best of all, enjoy unlimited play without the need to buy tokens or wait for timers. Ball-Hop Anniversary Edition is the definitive skee ball style game on the Apple App Store. Read the rest of this entry »

Sugar Rush, the new puzzle game from UK studio Full Fat, the makers of Agent Dash and Flick Golf, has exclusively launched on the Canadian App Store. After the acclaimed Flick series of sports games and most recently their explosive endless runner, the developers were eager to entertain puzzle game lovers with a first class title. Taking Match 3 games to the next level, Sugar Rush continues Full Fat’s pedigree of high production values and attention to detail. Sugar Rush is free to play but does offer in-app purchases. Read the rest of this entry »

Wiggles3D has announced the release of Smile Tiles, a new type of matching puzzle game. Smile Tiles is not about matching colours like other matching puzzle games. You make smiles by moving and rotating monsters to match up eyes with mouths in a variety of different patterns. The game features ten different monsters, each with a unique personality. Boomy was never built quite right, Dizzy is totally out of control, and Wheezy has never been able to get over his cough. Read the rest of this entry »

Eleventh Level Interactive will be launching the latest version of their new game onto the mobile gaming scene on June 19th. SnowSlide Lite is the fourth game from the developer, adding to an already strong foundation. SnowSlide provides easy playability and family friendly fun. The concept of the game is very simple: players use their finger to drag and release the cute animals, who then slide along the ice to their homes based on momentum.  The art style caters to a wide audience, bringing fun loving characters along with strong audio and voice over talent to entertain all ages.  Read the rest of this entry »

Big Blue Bubble Inc., creators of chart topping games like such as Burn The Rope and My Singing Monsters, has announced the launch of Greatfruit Grove, a beautiful and captivating free-to-play game that is sure to keep you entertained. Made just for mobile devices, Greatfruit Grove is a world-building game where players collect and genetically engineer a grove of adorable fruit bearing flora. To succeed you’ll need to employ the services of the locals, a troop of hyper-intelligent monkeys! Players will want to fertilize their trees and keep them smiling through strategic placement near playful monkey structures. Read the rest of this entry »