By Marty Mulrooney
Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken is an exclusive downloadable PlayStation Network title for PlayStation 3, created by independent publisher and developer Ratloop Asia. The game builds upon the critically acclaimed browser-based game Rocketbirds: Revolution! with brand new weapons and levels, as well as enhanced visuals and controls. Can our chicken hero Hardboiled bring down the totalitarian Penguin regime that has oppressed Albatropolis for so long?
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By Marty Mulrooney
Buried Secrets is the latest book in international bestseller Joseph Finder’s new series featuring private corporate investigator Nick Heller. Heller hasn’t long returned home to Boston to start his own agency before family friend and hedge fund titan Marshall Marcus reaches out for help – his daughter, Alexandra Marcus, has been kidnapped. But this is no ordinary kidnapping. Alexandra has been buried alive in an underground casket, her desperate cries for help streaming via live video feed over the internet. Time is quickly running out…
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By Marty Mulrooney
Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Telltale Games. Originally released digitally via the Telltale Games website in 2010, this new UK retail edition from publisher Lace Mamba Global includes all five episodes of the game, as well as five collectible badges and an art poster by Sam & Max creator Steve Purcell!
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By Marty Mulrooney
Mercury Hg is the latest game in the ‘Mercury’ series, which began with Archer Maclean’s Mercury on PlayStation Portable in 2005, followed by Mercury Meltdown in 2006 – a sequel that was also released on PlayStation 2 as Mercury Meltdown Remix and on Nintendo Wii as Mercury Meltdown Revolution. Mercury Hg is a direct sequel to Mercury Meltdown for PSN (PlayStation 3), with players once again tilting levels to guide their blob of mercury to the nearest exit whilst collecting atoms and avoiding hazards.
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