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In Cate West: The Velvet Keys – the sequel to Cate West: The Vanishing Files – police are once again baffled by a strange series of murders that see Cate West, celebrated novelist and insightful visionary travel to faraway Damasca. Only this time, the victims’ bodies seem strangely ghostly, nor do they bear any marks of foul play!

When Cate discovers a mysterious book that holds clues to the mysterious murders, she reads about a curse called “The Keeper’s Mark” which causes its victims to suffer from a physical state of neither living nor dead. The only way to unlock the victim’s soul is for Cate to forge a Velvet Key by fusing the alchemical properties of random objects.

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While most of the hidden object games present you with lists of still-life items to find, Gotcha: Celebrity Secrets challenges you to pluck people out of large crowds in a “Where’s Waldo” style game, but with a delightful, gossipy feel.

In Gotcha: Celebrity Secrets we meet Gaby, a young lady who fosters a secret ambition while working at a typical ‘nine to five’ job. Instead of preparing reports or taking care of her boss’s lunch, she immerses herself in her true passion – running a celebrity gossip blog!

When a competition is announced, offering the most popular gossip blogger an exclusive interview opportunity with megastar Eric Von Hunk, Gaby is determined to win, to defeat her biggest rival Dante and claim the glory of being Hollywood top blogger.

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Based on the Irish/Canadian television series, The Tudors is a hidden object game that fans of the genre would definitely want to check out.

Only two weeks after the execution of his former wife, its King’s Henry VIII’s wedding night. The festivities are over, and Elena Sedgrave and her father William are just about to call it a day when a strange noise is heard within the castle.

Apparently, one of the mansion dwellers has been poisoned, and after the protagonist Elena concocts an antidote and saves the day, King Henry decides to task her with escorting her father on a diplomatic mission to France, and act as his personal spy. Without much of a choice, Elena starts a journey full of deception and betrayal, towards Europe.

As is many most typical hidden object games, your main objective in The Tudors is to find the various objects scattered across the different screens. But The Tudors insist on more then just your average pixel hunting hidden object game. With minor elements of an adventure game, and different puzzles to solve such as jigsaw puzzles, finding differences between two pictures, lock picking puzzles etc, The Tudors gets a boost to its game play depth while staying loyal to the genre at all times.

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I love casual PC games (surprise surprise) so I often find myself using gaming lingo in my day to day banter, even when conversing with friends and family who most likely don’t understand the references at all and probably just think that I “talk funny”.

Nevertheless, if you’re reading this blog post then I’m guessing that it’s with a sympathetic gamer’s eye, and that if I say that sometimes, come Saturday or Sunday, I seem to encounter “The Mysterious Case of Michelle Casey’s Vanishing Weekend”, you  know I’m not talking about the latest Hidden Object release, but about my actual weekend.

Some weeks are such a drag. You’re so busy with work, obliging a neighbor, colleague or friend with precious chunks of your time listening to whatever it is they need you to listen to, grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning, doing the family thing, calling tradesmen, phone companies and other pesky people whom you occasionally rely on to fix this and that, etc.

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