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Italian Stalling

By Alec Meer on July 18th, 2007.

Lord, I loves me that Peggle. In fact, I love it even more than I did a couple of weeks ago when I scored it 9/10. I increasingly wish I’d given it 10, if only because our resident misery John Walker would have become so angry about it that we’d have had to kill him.

So, seeing a new game from Popcap, the casual games publisher/developer responsible for Peggle, crop up on Steam excited that growing part of me that’s obsessed with brightly-coloured cartoon puzzle games that don’t make pensioners cower in fear. Venice Deluxe is its name (if there’s one thing to love about Popcap, it’s that it suffixes its every game with Deluxe, just because it can), and shooting shapes is its game. Read the rest of this entry »

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