Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone’s Fighting Fantasy series of interactive Gamebooks – “The adventures in which YOU are the Hero!” – have been published in 27 countries in 23 languages and have sold over 16 million copies.

Talisman of Death, one of the best-known Fighting Fantasy adventures, is the latest minis title from Laughing Jackal. Talisman of Death has also been the most controversial title in the series, with gory passages quoted by the Evangelical Alliance in their campaign to have Fighting Fantasy books banned as unsuitable for children.

Fighting Fantasy: Talisman of Death takes you to the once peaceful world of Orb, which is now in terrible danger. Dark forces are working together to unleash the awesome might of the Evil One. Your mission is to destroy the Talisman of Death before the dark lord’s minions reach you. But beware! Time is running out!

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Welcome back to the weekly minis round up. Below you can check out this weeks new minis, all playable with PSP and PlayStation 3.

Jewel Keepers: Easter Island from Nordcurrent UAB

One day Professor H, the world-renowned expert on Easter Island, received a strange letter from the capital city Hanga Roa. It was a cry for help from somebody unknown. It said that something bad was going on the island. Without any hesitation, Professor, together with his assistant Joel and his granddaughter Ivie, rushed to the island, where many puzzles, mysteries and quests awaited them. Can you help him to reveal the greatest secret of Easter Island?

• More than 40 levels spread all over Easter Island
• Tons of different board shapes
• Intriguing story about the mysteries of Easter Island

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Hello! This is Alex from Nordcurrent. We are releasing Jewel Keepers: Easter Island, our latest minis title, very soon, and I wanted to tell you a few things about it.

As you might have guessed from the title, Jewel Keepers: Easter Island is a Match-3 game set on the
Easter Island. As in all Match-3 games, you are required to swap adjacent jewels to put three jewels of the same colour next to each other in one row or column. However, we have added a few gameplay elements that make Jewel Keepers different. You can have a look at the trailer to see the differences:

When you start a new level, all cells are grey. When jewels disappear, they turn grey cells into golden
cells, and the goal of the game is to turn all cells into golden ones. This sounds pretty straight-forward
when you think of an ordinary rectangular level. However, as you progress further, you will be faced
with more sophisticated level shapes, and it will get more and more challenging. And satisfying, once
you complete the level.

And a few words about bonuses: we wanted to make bonuses a bit different from other games. We have time bombs that destroy all adjacent jewels of one colour. We have horizontal and vertical bombs that destroy all jewels in one row or column once activated. There is a Randomized Jewel that rapidly changes its colour and, once you activate it, all jewels of its current colour will be destroyed.

And let’s not forget that the game is set on the Easter Island! There is a story with nice comic-like cut- scenes about a mystery that is unveiling on the Easter Island, which is also a nice addition for those who like a good story.

The game will be out next week and I hope you will enjoy it. Thanks for reading this!

For more information on our games you can visit our website www.nordcurrent.com or our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/Nordcurrent.

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Hello folks! James here from FuturLab, creators of the hit PlayStation minis game Coconut Dodge! Our newest game is quite different than Coconut Dodge, but there are some strong similarities:

1. A tried-and-tested game mechanic with a new twist
2. Extremely addictive gameplay
3. Quality throughout and value for money

These things have made Coconut Dodge one of the best scoring minis games so far. We learned a whole bunch of tricks making Coconut Dodge, and we’re applying the same level of care and attention to gameplay addictiveness on this project!

If that sounds good to you, read on!

September 7th, 2210

Vilio — the beating heart of the Toron nebula — exploded last September, becoming an ominous red giant in the process. Luckily, and somewhat miraculously, no one was hurt, though a galaxy wide electromagnetic pulse shuddered through our fleets, nullifying mining ships and colony vessels as well as our Special Forces fighters. Power and communication ceased instantly; those ships now survive on fossil fuels, remote and helpless. A rescue mission was launched in October; those craft are now expected to reach Toron in approximately ten months time. This much you know.

However, close monitoring has revealed that Villo has begun to collapse in on itself, the spectral red light bending inwards to form the beginnings of a black hole. The speed of collapse is debatable, but at best we expect Vilio to be a full-blown black hole within a matter of months.

As we expected, our director of operations was invited this morning to brief the government on the current state of our Quarp Drive project. It was concluded that all resources necessary for the completion of our testing period should be redirected as appropriate; their intention being to use our prototype Quarp Jet as the basis for an immediate rescue mission.

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Earlier today I received this strange image with a bunch of gaming sites listed on it. I checked some of them out and they seem to have received similar images.

We’re told that this all leads to the announcement of a new minis title and that more details will follow but, in the meantime, does anyone fancy trying to solve the puzzle?

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