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It’s difficult for the parents of a child diagnosed with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) to find ways to control their child’s disorder and help him or her live a normal childhood.

PopCap Games recently contracted Information Solutions Group to conduct a unique survey in April 2008 in which 2,728 respondents (of the 13,296 casual gamers surveyed) indicated they or someone they are caring for has a disability…

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Sega has announced yet another game for the handheld which promises innovative gameplay: PictoImage a drawing-oriented puzzle game that will help you hone drawing and mental skills.

Players will be required to accurately guess an image from an extensive library of 300 drawings in the single-player and two-player modes. The fun doesn’t cease there as the pictorial game has a multi-player mode which allows up to eight players to turn-by-turn draw an image based on a word that can be the name of an animal, object, food or “Other.“ Competitors also have to guess the word that describes a drawing in front of them.

There will be eight different multi-player modes and players can raise the bar for their competitors by adding their own words to the game.

PictoImage release date has not yet been announced but is expected in August 2008. It hasn’t still received a rating, either, but don’t expect any protests over a benign game like this.

Read [Nintendo Life]

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If you didn’t feel like pre-ordering Patapon just to get the demo for your PSP, but you really wanted another demo to waste time with, then head over to the Playstation Store. A free demo of a forthcoming puzzle game from Agetec called Puzzle Guzzle is now available as a free download. It offers the chance to sample some of the puzzles that will be found in the full version of the title.

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Value Wii titles are always great, because we always need a break every now and again from Twilight Princess and Super Mario Galaxy. Atlus has just announced that on March 11, 2008, they will release Octomania, a new casual puzzle game for the system. Octomania will feature anime style graphics, online multiplayer, classic puzzle fun along the lines of Tetris, Columns or Bejeweled and an octopus or two. The best part is the price, only $19.99.

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Another movie-based game the world probably didn’t need has arrived, as Blockdot’s online game Trapped, based on Saw IV, has now hit the internet. For those daring enough to risk possible gore, chills and the other side-effects that come from a movie-inspired game, there is also a contest running. After completing the game, players will receive the option to enter the Saw IV Trapped sweepstakes and win Saw IV director’s cut DVDs, t-shirts and posters. Be still my heart.

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In Nintendo’s latest Professor Layton and the Curious Village press release, it was revealed that new puzzles will be released over the Nintendo WiFi Connection. Each week, starting with the week of February 10, 2008, when the game is released, and ending six months later in August, a new puzzle will be ready for downloading. This means that by August 10, 2008, players will have had access to 156 puzzles.

Professor Layton and the Curious Village is the debut of a series already famous in Japan in North America. It is a puzzle game with a vivid storyline as Professor Layton and his…

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The new video game studio The Game Equation has just released their very first game, Deep Blue Sea. The title is a casual puzzle game created for both Macs and PCs, quite a departure from Hitman, a game that The Game Equation founders Brian Meidell and Bo Cordes previously worked on. It also features a soundtrack of five songs from Rasmus Hartvig, a well known Danish composer.

In Deep Blue Sea players try to match different marine life and treasures in couples of three or more to reveal artifacts, unleash special magic attacks, collect the seven sacred amulets and clear the 130 levels in the games. Players can also spend money collected on different kinds of power ups, upgrades equipment to use during play. Like the Mr. Driller games, the idea is to get to the bottom of each level in order to make it to the next one.

Both a free demo and the $20 full version are available at the official site. A PC must have Windows 2000, XP or Vista and Directx 7.0 and a Mac must have OS X 10.4 in order to run Deep Blue Sea. The demo is a 7.9 MB download, and the full version is 11.3 MB.

Read [Brian Meidell’s Blog] Also Read [Kotaku] Site [Deep Blue Sea]

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On Wednesday, November 14, 2007, two new games become available to Xbox Live Silver and Gold subscribers at approximately 1 a.m. (Pacific Time): Screwjumper! and Shrek~n~Roll. Both games are priced at 800 Microsoft Points each ($10 US).

Players can add Microsoft Points to their account by simply clicking on that option from the download screen of the game.

Screwjumper! is a fast paced action game where players will be able to fly characters with jet packs through multiple levels while blowing up any obstacles in they’re way.  Screwjumper! includes four single player modes; Destruction, Race, Time Trial, Score and also features multiplayer over Xbox Live.

Shrek~n~Roll is a puzzle game intended for children of all ages where the player must guide the characters through various mazes. Features include single player mode, versus mode, co-op mode and score attack mode.

Product Page [Switchball] Site [Xbox Live Arcade]

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Ignition Entertainment announced a September 25 , 2007, release date and $19.99-price point for the new Wii puzzle/action title Mercury Meltdown Revolution. The title is the fourth in the Mercury series, making use of some stages from the PSP game and newly created ones, and is built around Wii-mote control.

In the game, players tilt the board in order to get their mercury blobs through maze like courses filled with obstacles. Unlike other games with a similar premise, like Super Monkey Ball and Marble Madness, Mercury Meltdown Revolution boasts…

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Funkitron is currently offering the addictive strategy boardgame, Blokus, as a free online PC game through its web site, Blokus.com. To play, you strategically place Tetris-esque pieces on a game board without touching while blocking another player’s moves.

Since multi-talented artist and engineer Bernard Tavitian introduced this game to…

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