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The mysterious Captain Nemo, long thought dead, has gotten in touch with a former member of his crew to ask for help in locating the submarine, The Nautilus, but while time seems to have stood still for Nemo, it has marched steadily on for his shipmate, who is now a grandfather. More specifically, he's your grandfather, and being the daring adventuress you are, you agree to help Nemo on his behalf.

“There’s more than one way to skin a cat,” so the saying goes. There’s also more than one way to match up coloured gems, which may not sound as snappy, but it’s a lot less nasty. Joining such well-worn methods as forming lines and arranging clusters, Flipstones has you building large triangles and hexagons from smaller coloured triangles.

After a brief Canada-only release to test network stability, ngmoco’s hotly anticipated social farming simulator We Farm has finally arrived for virtual farmers around the world!

From Escape the Museum 1 and 2 to The Mirror Mysteries and Escape the Lost Kingdom, Gogii Games has gotten a lot of mileage out of the old "family gets separated by some sort of catastrophe and must be reunited by a heroic Mom (or occasionally Dad or the kids)" theme. Combine it this time with a cruise ship disaster of Titanic proportions and you have Gogii's upcoming hidden object adventure The Ship.

If Cooking Academy on the PC is a full restaurant, then Cooking Academy for the iPhone is like a great fast food joint. It’s a little light on the sophistication, but a delicious experience nonetheless. And amazingly, it also has a great menu.

According to the Guinness Book of Records: 2010 Gamer’s Edition, the mobile edition of Snake is the most played game in the world. Originally released in the mid 1970’s, the game really cemented its status as a cultural landmark when it came pre-installed on Nokia phones back in 1998. But times have changed, and Nokia no longer rules the roost in the world of mobile devices.

Once in a while a game sneaks out silently, but brings with it the possibility of opening new doors. This time, that game may be Car Town, by Cie Games; a game that does not branch off a farming landscape and blend harvesting your crops on your little slice of heaven. Rather, Car Town brings a more modern spin into social gaming, by creating a world around another addictive past time: cars.

Now that Disney has bought Playdom and the battle between Zynga versus Playdom is no more, the next battle in social games will be played on a higher level.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Google is developing a social games rival to take on Facebook. This is old news (TechCrunch reported earlier that Google invested $100 million in Zynga), but there are a few (admittedly, very few) interesting tidbits in the WSJ article.

When I reviewed Echoes of the Past: Royal House of Stone I had few negative things to say about it, save that it was frustratingly short (I wrapped it in less than two hours). Heading into its sequel, I couldn’t help but keep track of the time I spent playing. Would it be another fun but frustratingly short adventure? I’m happy to report that, at around the four hour mark, I stopped checking my watch and just sat back and enjoyed the rest of the game as it unfolded. Echoes of the Past: The Castle of Shadows is not just more than twice the length of its woefully short precursor, it’s also very well designed and a heck of a lot of fun.

Alawar has given us a sneak peek of Snark Busters: Welcome to the Club, a hidden object game where you'll join the hunt for the Snark - an elusive creature that few people have seen, and no one has caught.