Get in the Halloween spirit with The Dracula Files, a new vampire-themed hidden object download game coming to Shockwave on October 27. Vampires are all the rage–learn more about trends in vampire art and media in this blog article from our friends at MTV.com, featuring comic writer and Dracula aficionado Tony Lee.
September 19th is International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
Why not take the theme one step farther? At Shockwave, you can also *game* like a buccaneer or corsair. Just weigh anchor, matey, and set yer ship’s course for these exotic ports. Fair winds and plunder await. Arrr!
Pirateville
Tradewinds Classic
Spirit of Wandering: The Legend
Carribean Hideaway
Sea Journey
A Sensory Sensation! Passport to Perfume is coming to Shockwave on August 19th. This great new game is a hybrid of frenzied time management action and tycoon challenge. Play as Sophia, a young, globe-trotting perfume maker and store owner. You’ll have your hands full filling pretty bottles with your own fragrant blends, all made from ingredients gathered in exotic locations. As you progress, you’ll learn fun facts about the wonderful flowers, fruits, and spices used to create coveted new scents. Just don’t run out of popular items or your customers will leave your beautiful shop empty-handed!
Fans of fast action games and strategy games such as The Great Chocolate Chase™: A Chocolatier® Twist, the Chocolatier series, and Plant Tycoon, will love Passport to Perfume.
Soon, you’ll be able to enjoy these New Release on Shockwave:
• Righteous Kill© 2
• Casebook
• Nanny 911
• My Kingdom for the Princess
• The Mystery of the Mary Celeste
• Wendy’s Wellness
We appreciate your feedback and game suggestions and want you to know that we read every single one of them. While we strive to respond to as many requests as possible, we will not be able to respond to everyone individually. Check back here next week, and we’ll post a response addressing the week’s most commonly requested games.
This July 14th, get into the spirit of Bastille Day, France’s national commemoration of the 1789 storming of the Bastille prison that ignited the French Revolution. Try playing some great games with a French
twist.
Mortimer Beckett and the Time Paradox takes you back in time to prerevolutionary France, where you’ll meet King Louis XVI as he tries to escape his angry subjects.
Then, help Edmond Dantes, protagonist of the French literary masterpiece, The Count of Monte Cristo , to avenge his wrongful imprisonment and bring his betrayers to justice.
Or, relax and take to the French skies in The Flying Trapeezees ; you’ll entertain the Gallic masses with a fun family of daring trapeze artists (and generate some Bastille Day-appropriate fireworks in the process!).
The most popular game on Shockwave is now also available for the iPhone and iPod touch. The new Shockwave Daily Jigsaw TO-GO app provides you with a new puzzle every day, just like the online Daily Jigsaw game. Plus, you get 90 pre-installed puzzles instantly when you download the application.
Have some great photos on your iPhone? Turn them into entertaining puzzles with the Jigsaw Maker feature. Want to really challenge your jigsaw skills? Crank up the difficulty—there are three levels from which to choose. Shockwave Daily Jigsaw TO-GO is a great way to bring your favorite online puzzle fun to your fingertips, with all the customization, flexibility, and portability that the iPhone and iPod touch have to offer.
You can pick up the Shockwave Daily Jigsaw TO-GO app, or get more information, here:
We regret to announce that Tradewinds Odyssey™ will not be available on Shockwave on May 26th as previously planned. The developer of the game has made a decision to delay the launch, but they assure us the game will be coming soon. We’ll update you as soon as we have more information.
On a more positive note, we are pleased to announce that on June 4th, Dream Day Wedding: Viva Las Vegas will be coming to Shockwave. This new episode in the super-popular Dream Day series of hidden object adventure games is sure to please June brides and card game fans alike. Also on the horizon are more Nancy Drew mysteries, Bejeweled Twist, and World of Goo! Stay tuned for details.
On Friday, April 17th, Shockwave will release a hotly-anticipated new game: The Clockwork Man. This intriguing hidden object/role-playing adventure offers twists in both theme and gameplay that are sure to please.
The Clockwork man is set in a 19th century fantasy world that combines a Victorian aesthetic with futuristic industrial elements, such as flying airships and steam-powered robotic companions. The heroine of the story, Miranda Calomy, provides a refreshing break from traditional Victorian female stereotypes. She is educated and talented–the youngest in a long line of inventors. Her brains and engineering skills are put to the test during a mysterious assignment that takes her on a transcontinental voyage fraught with sabotage and suspense.
Breathtaking design and new ways of navigating scenes to find objects make The Clockwork Man a best-of-breed gaming experience. Features like scrolling through elaborate settings and zooming in to get a closer look provide a sense of being in a real 3D environment. 
Mini-puzzles between scenes provide additional challenge and variety that keep the game addictive and well-paced.
The Clockwork Man will be available on Shockwave in just a few short days! In the meantime, here are some other great games that will get your hidden object skills in tip-top form.
Mortimer Beckett and the Time Paradox, Women’s Murder Club: A Darker Shade of Grey, and if you find the neo-Victorian costumes and scenery in The Clockwork Man appealing, you’ll love this fun “Steampunk” dress-up game on AddictingGames: Dress Me Up Clockwork Couture.
