By Quintin Smith on December 8th, 2010 at 12:21 pm.
Bejeweled 3 is out, and if you like putting gems in a line then you can play it on your computer. It’s quite good! Look, here Bejeweled 3 is on Steam, here it is on Direct2Drive, and if you head down to the official PopCap page then you can get yourself a free 60 minute trial. If you missed John’s rundown of the new features, that’s worth a look too. He is acerbic yet uplifting, like an Alka-Seltzer.
A video of Bejeweled 3′s new Zen mode follows, with its customisable mantras, ambient sounds, breath modulation and binaural beats. I am not joking. Take a look at this.
Amazing. Team Meat clearly need to add a customisable Zen mode to Super Meat Boy.
08/12/2010 at 12:31 poop says:
a real diamond in the rough, this one
08/12/2010 at 12:31 Miles of the Machination says:
Meat as therapy? Could catch on.
“I find it easy to discard negative thoughts about myself” would be a hard message to take after the fiftieth death.
08/12/2010 at 12:38 nabeel says:
I have to question your choice of post title, are you really condoning the use of Bejeweled? Who knows how many innocent kids are going to get addicted now.
08/12/2010 at 12:49 MadTinkerer says:
I want Hardcore Bejewled 3 Zen Mode in Chuzzle SO BAD.
Is Chuzzle 2 being worked on? One can only hope…
08/12/2010 at 15:59 DrGonzo says:
God I hope so! Never been a big fan of the match 3 games and what not, not since I got over my Columns addiction many years ago. But I can’t stop playing Chuzzle and Zoo Keeper. There is a deluxe edition of Chuzzle, but I’m not sure what it adds, whatever it was was so insignificant I didn’t notice anyway.
08/12/2010 at 12:54 Dominic White says:
Never been too keen on Bejewelled, but I notice that this one is actually a launch-day addition to Metaboli UK. Sweet. Given that the game is £15 and I pay £11 monthly, that’s actually not too bad. Guess I’ll give this one a spin.
08/12/2010 at 13:11 Tyrone Slothrop. says:
But what if I’m already stoned?
08/12/2010 at 13:22 Quintin Smith says:
Then you’ll probably have a lot of fun with Zen mode.
08/12/2010 at 15:08 vatara says:
Just wait until the media finds out about the binaural beats, or “digital drugs”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZcgUEkBIX0
08/12/2010 at 13:23 strange headache says:
JEHOVAH!
08/12/2010 at 14:11 Basilicus says:
Got to say, it all sounds silly on the surface, but that’s some truly awesome stuff to be including in this sort of game. Except maybe the mantras. But teaching people to control breathing, breathe deep, that sort of thing, is very undervalued in terms of controlling mood and stress levels.
08/12/2010 at 14:31 Nick says:
I see you hanging around with hippy Johnny.
08/12/2010 at 16:08 Lucas says:
Is the demo as boringly easy as the Plants vs Zombies demo was?
08/12/2010 at 16:12 djbriandamage says:
I bought this for my mom yesterday and may (or may not!) have borrowed one of the licenses. It’s very very good. I’m pretty surprised to see the binaural “iDoser” thing in a game for soccer moms, though!!
08/12/2010 at 16:26 DrGonzo says:
Why not though? It’s essentially just relaxing ‘music’. The media just created a ridiculous hype about nothing really.
08/12/2010 at 17:56 djbriandamage says:
It’s the hype that makes me surprised, though. And it’s not music, it’s this weird swelling buzzing sound that alternates between ears. It made me kinda queasy. YMMV I guess.
08/12/2010 at 17:20 CaLe says:
I dunno how they get away with charging £15 for this beefed up flash game.
08/12/2010 at 17:47 Forch says:
The same could be said about Super Meat Boy.
08/12/2010 at 20:13 Oneironaut says:
The same was said about Meat Boy, and Machinarium(going by posts in the steam forums), and probably a few other games that were really good.
21/12/2010 at 07:21 Stompywitch says:
People like to pay for the programming language used instead of the actual game content, right?
08/12/2010 at 18:08 Wulf says:
No one’s mentioned Endorfun… ?
*Amazed.*
Still, binaural beats in a game? Now that’s entertaining annnnd quite interesting.
08/12/2010 at 18:57 Shih Tzu says:
Oh snap! What has been brung cannot be un-brung!
09/12/2010 at 13:58 wurlidurli says:
Is it possible for a casual game to “jump the shark”? Because if yes, I think Bejeweled just did that.
09/12/2010 at 02:16 Jack says:
Is there really no way to stop this?