Thứ Tư, 20 tháng 6, 2018

Papa's Cupcakeria - Walkthrough, Tips, Review - Jay is games

Continuing their crusade to brainwash you into joining the restaurant industry, Flipline Studios serves up another tasty simulation in the Papa's games with Papa's Cupcakeria. Instead of being forced to run the new business because Papa is a lazy jerk, this time you're working off a debt. As if making cupcakes to order fast food style weren't inherently hilarious and difficult enough, in addition to cranky customers, batters, frosting and more, you've also got the changing seasons to contend with... and the holidays they bring!

Like all Papa's games, Cupcakeria has a multi-stage process to literally filling a customer's cake-hole. You take down their order, select their cupcake paper and fill it with the appropriate batter (not too much or too little!), bake it until ready, and then decorate it to their exacting specifications. 


You're scored on how well you perform at each task, which influences both your tip and whether you receive a ticket to play mini-games with. Mini-games, of which there are several, can win you prizes and cash, and money is important since it can be spent on decorations and things to make your bakery function faster and more smoothly. During holiday seasons, make sure to decorate your shop accordingly, as well as make the most of seasonal ingredients. Hey, it works for Starbucks. Get all up in that PUMPKIN EVERYTHING fever action.

Like its predecessors, Cupcakeria is all about the grind, but in the best possible way, and this latest installment offers some minor tweaks that make it a lot more bearable. Customers will now rattle off their order faster, for instance, which is a blessing for the impatient among us who felt our eyes glaze over during the process before. 


It helps make up for the slow pace as you unlock different ingredients and the difficulty ramps up, though the hardest thing in the game might be mastering that frosting swirl. The seasons and holidays don't have a huge impact on gameplay, but the variation of ingredients and aesthetic changes help to break things up the longer you play, and are a great touch. Having run a bakery for years, I'll tell you that the most realistic part of this game is customers demanding perfect symmetry for their cherries, but you don't play these games for the realism, and Papa's Cupcakeria has fun in spades. I admit, I was hoping for more of an actual storyline this time around considering the debt payoff setup, even if it was just a Tom Nook style racket, but Papa's Cupcakeria is another great installment in a series that keeps improving as it goes, and will keep fans locked behind that counter for a long, long time.

Thứ Hai, 23 tháng 4, 2018

Tips and Tricks - Hunt: Showdown Wiki Guide - IGN

This page is filled with the greatest Tips and Tricks to help you become the very best at Hunt: Showdown.

Still being an Early Access game means that Hunt: Showdown lacks a lot of the tutorials and help information commonly found in other games. Below, we explain some of the more elusive features, while also giving you tips to make sure your hunt is a successful one.

This is a PvEvP Game
The first thing you need to do when playing Hunt: Showdown is realize you aren't playing PUBG. This game is about Hunters versus Monsters first and foremost.


If you want to level up quickly, earn lots of cash and unlock new items, you want to focus on killing zombies and the many other creatures found on the map. While they don't amount to much experience individually, the total sum will be worth thousands of experience by the end of the game. Even if you lose, you walk away with far more exp than someone who only focuses on killing players.

This doesn't mean you should ignore fighting other players, but it's important to keep in mind your priorities. A single player kill is worth the same as a few zombie kills, making it far more valuable to just kill the zombies.

Always Bring a Knife
This may seem simple, but when you are selecting a Hunter, either pick one that has a knife, or buy one and equip it. They only cost a few dollars and go a long way to making your life an easy one.

In the early game, you have limited melee attack options. The knife is a cheap choice, that offers you fast kills (3 hits for most normal zombies), and is whisper silent. So long as you have a trusty knife, normal zombies will virtually never be a threat.

Keep An Eye Out for Wagons
On the map, you will notice wagon icons scattered around. At first glance they may not seem important but that is very incorrect.

Wagons are actually resupply stations. Each one will contain boxes of ammo and several health kits. They are invaluable when hunting bigger monsters, or if you're caught up in a deadly firefight with other players. Anytime you've taken serious damage, or if you want to stock up before the final contract fight, check your map for a wagon to get a full resupply.

Choose Your Hunts Wisely
It can be easy to grab a hunter, pick a contract and start slaying some zombies, but this can lead to near impossible to win scenarios. Why's that?

Certain contract monsters have different strengths and weaknesses. For instance, the Butcher is weaker to shotguns than other types, while the Spider will take damage from any gun but is incredibly fast. This means that if you don't have shotguns, but you're trying to take down the Butcher, you'll be in for a much tougher fight. Before selecting which contract you want to kill, consider your items and how easy it will be for you to beat them!

Sound is a Key Part of the Game
More so than most games, Hunt: Showdown relies on sound for your survival. There are all kinds of traps that make noise and can draw the attention of both other players, and creatures. Gun fire, running through water and even walking along wooden planks can also create noise.

Thứ Hai, 16 tháng 4, 2018

How to live the longest in Reigns

If you've never heard of the game Reigns before, allow us to introduce you to one of the most popular games of the year. Available for $2.99 in the Google Play Store, Reigns is a game that will likely have you playing for not only for hours on end, but over years and generations — more on that in a bit.

The game is formatted sort of like those Choose Your Own Adventure books you probably remember from your childhood. Load up the game and you're instantly thrown in. You start out as a young king taking control of his kingdom in the first year of his reign. Advisors, citizens and animals appear as cards, coming to you with issues and questions that require a ruling — swipe right for yes, swipe left for no.

But choose wisely, because your decisions will affect one of four aspects of your kingdom: the church, the people, the army or the treasury. They are tracked with meters at the top of the screen, and your goal as king is to ensure no meter becomes entirely empty or full — allow that to happen and your fate is sealed.

It may sound complicated, but it's really not. Your goal is simply to keep things balanced and reign over your land for as long as possible. If — or rather when — you die, the game doesn't end.


Instead, you simply take on the role of your successor and take over where the last king left things. But remember, everything is occurring on a linear timeline. Every decision you make is logged by the game, and may well come back affect your fate down the line, so choose wisely.

If we've convinced you already to check out the game, great! Hit up the Google Play Store and get your hands on this game while avoiding any of the spoilers to follow. If you still need some convincing before dropping money on the game, or have some questions regarding the gameplay mechanics, we've broken out this handy guide to maximize the length of your reign.

A guided tour through your first reign as King
How to duel
Completing objectives
Effect cards
Mistakes will be made

A guided tour through your first reign as King
To explain Reigns' gameplay mechanics, which is sort of a meshing between Choose Your Own Adventure storytelling and Tinder-style controls, there's no better way than to simply showing a progression through the very first reign, as King Edward the Young. I'll be including commentary along the way to explain my rationale.

Spoilers ahead: No matter how early the content I'm showing you is in the overall arc of the game, if you want the full, going-in-blind experience (highly recommended), stop reading now and just buy this game from the Play Store. It's absolutely worth it.

The game opens with you speaking to the "Spirit of the Fallen" who accuses you of usurping his throne. He gives you a heads up about keeping the four powers (marked with the cross, stick figure, sword and dollar sign) balanced to survive. Again, you simply swipe to the right or left to move on to the next card.

Thứ Tư, 28 tháng 3, 2018

Xmas Puzzle Review game

It was just two weeks ago that WiiWare got Pinocchio's Puzzle, which I called a surprisingly pleasant puzzler for families. It was a simple point-and-click jigsaw puzzle game with nothing too remarkable about it, but it was good fun overall and I judged it a nice option for anyone wanting to play casually alongside their kids. Now, as December dawns, the same design is back again -- just with a holiday coat of paint applied.

Xmas Puzzle features the same interface and gameplay as its Pinocchio predecessor, but instead of solving puzzles that tell one continuous children's story you're now reassembling the pieces of one-off, standalone Christmas pictures.


You've got scenes of Santa Claus in flight in his sleigh, Santa placing presents under the tree, Santa talking to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and so on. Typical cartoony Christmas stuff, along with a few more realistic selections like the three wise men riding camels to Bethlehem.

Once again the puzzles get harder the further you go into the game, and there are a dozen different puzzles to solve. Each one is playable with up to four players simultaneously, so you can pass along extra Wii Remotes to your spouse, your children or your visiting relatives in town for the holidays to all come together and help pass the time until dinner's ready. The low-key, orchestrated background music matches the spirit of the season too.

The Verdict

It's still nothing revolutionary, but this Christmas-themed pack of digital jigsaw puzzles is once again a pleasant choice for Wii-owning families.

Thứ Năm, 22 tháng 3, 2018

Zombie Gunship Survival Cheats: Tips, Tricks & Strategy Guide

Zombie Gunship Survival is original, innovative and highly addictive. With great gameplay and visuals that really make you feel that you’re in a world ravaged by zombies, this is definitely one of the best free mobile games we’ve played in recent times. And we’re here to try to make your experience even better by sharing with you some Zombie Gunship Survival cheats and tips in a complete strategy guide.


There are many things to consider when playing a game as complex as ZGS and we’re here to make sure that you keep everything accounted for. So let’s not waste a single second and let’s check out below some Zombie Gunship Survival tips and tricks!

1. Constantly work on upgrading weapons
Keeping the weapons upgraded is extremely important for the success of your missions. Focus first on the main weapon you have equipped. I consider the 5.56 Machine Gun as the best option early on. So focus on it first and invest the most there because that’s your main weapon against the zombies. Then, if you have spare parts, go for the secondary weapon and finally your soldiers’ weapons, because they will use those the least in the game if you do a good job.

2. Level up & Fuse
The best part about upgrading weapons is that when you reach a certain level, you can fuse them and increase their power and star rating. The first level when you can fuse, for example, is 10. The best part about fusing is that you don’t need a max level weapon in order to do so. This might change in the future, so make sure that you fuse your main weapon as much as possible when it’s easy to do so.

3. Your Base Guide
Building a great base and defending it properly will help you get further, faster than others. Defending your base is a mission that you can go for every 4 hours and it’s something that you should always do because it’s easy resources.

Repair all buildings on the base as soon as you are allowed to do so in order to have as many things in the way of the zombies as possible. If you level them up, it’s even better because they will keep the zombies busy for longer. But focus on leveling up your headquarters first in order to unlock more buildings, then slowly work on leveling them up as it is a costly process.

When defending your base, a solid design is needed. Try to keep an eye on the zombie nodes as that’s where your enemies will come from. Build barricades to prevent them from advancing easily, then place the towers behind the barricades, but in front of the three buildings you must defend. Then keep an eye on everything from your plane and take out zombies as you do in a normal mission. Your three main buildings have a ton of hit points anyway, so defending your base is usually an easy job.

Finally, don’t forget to work on removing the zombie nodes whenever you have the chance. That gives you a huge bonus in battles and makes defending it a lot easier. A good strategy here is to try to remove the zombie nodes on one side, leaving them on a single side. This makes it easier to defend with towers and your own weapons.

4. Attacking Guide
When attacking, always take some time to plan the best route. Sometimes, going near an enemy tower is the best bet, but on most occasions it’s not. The reason why I say that is that these towers will also shoot at zombies, proving extremely helpful for your mission. They seem to target you first and the zombies later, but your soldiers will still enter the buildings even when shot at, so keep the towers alive for as long as they are useful. Usually, I destroy them after looting all the buildings, when my soldiers just sit there waiting for the chopper and getting shot at.

Also take zombie nodes in consideration, as well as obstacles they have in the way. Try to find a route that allows your soldiers to pass without opening big areas for zombies to get through. As long as the zombies have to waste time destroying obstacles, it’s a lot easier for you.

Finally, don’t forget to zoom in and zoom out with your weapon. Remember that there’s a bit of a delay between shooting and your bullets reaching the target, so always have that in mind when aiming.

5. Your Soldiers
Although you don’t have direct control over your soldiers’ movement, you decide what weapons they use. The long range weapons are the best choice in most cases and for most soldiers. But it doesn’t hurt to have one equipped with a shotgun for those moments when zombies get too close.

When in battle, you can also give them some basic commands. You can use the hand icon to make them stop (which is rarely useful, but there are cases when you might want to take out a tower first, for example). You can also rush the arrival of the chopper if you don’t want to loot all buildings for some reason (like zombies piling up) and you can also tell your soldiers to abandon looting a building before collecting all resources. I rarely use these three options and I don’t think you should waste too much time with them either.

6. Complete daily missions & open crates
Make sure that each day you complete the daily missions. They offer solid rewards and are really easy to complete. Also, don’t forget to always be working on opening crates: go for the fast ones when you start playing, then leave the ones that need longer times for those moments when you are away from the game.

These would be our Zombie Gunship Survival cheats and tips. If you have other tricks or strategies that you think other players would find useful, don’t hesitate to share them with fellow readers in the comment section below!

Thứ Sáu, 16 tháng 3, 2018

How to Play the First Level from Unravel

Publisher EA releases an extensive trial of puzzle platformer Unravel, granting PC, Xbox One, and PS4 users access to the indie title’s first level, Thistle and Weeds.

Even though 2016 is a year full to the brim with highly anticipated epic-scale titles, there have been plenty of low-key games that have been expected to have a major impact. One of these games is Unravel, a puzzle platformer from developer Coldwood Interactive which picked up rave previews after its unveiling at E3 2015. Now, publisher EA has given those intrigued about the game a real chance to try it in action.


The publisher has now released a new trial for the title, giving the gaming community a taster of the gameplay that Unravel offers up. The trial itself gives users access to the game’s first level. Certainly, this will prove incredibly useful for those gamers who are still unsure as to whether the game is worth its full retail price after its release back in February.

The trial is available to any gamer who is interested, and can be accessed for PC via EA’s Origin platform, as well as on PS4 and Xbox One. However, PS4 owners may well be getting the best trial of the lot. While PC and Xbox One users have a ten hour restriction on gameplay, this same time limit apparently does not exist for the PS4 version of the trial.

Unravel Gameplay
Unravel picked up plenty of plaudits when it was initially revealed, with gamers wowed by its eye-catching art direction. When the game was released on February 9, however, reviews were generally positive but with some glaring criticisms. Citing the game’s lack of innovation and an apparent exploitation of nostalgia, Unravel was unfortunately seen by some as not living up to the hype.

However, the game still has plenty of defenders, and many gamers have found hours of fun in the title. In fact, some may argue that the backlash seen against Unravel upon its release was perhaps unnecessary. Flying in the face of some current gaming trends, Unravel still found some fans through its light-hearted gameplay focus and retro feel, but that development decision may have damaged its critical reception.

This might point towards exactly why EA has decided to release such an extensive trial of the game. If Unravel’s sales and general reception have been disappointing, then giving gamers the chance to check out the game for free could lead to improved word of mouth regarding the title, and therefore hopefully bring in more sales. Whether or not this strategy works for EA, however, remains to be seen.

Unravel is out now for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

Thứ Năm, 15 tháng 3, 2018

Tips For Playing Middle-earth: Shadow of War

Shadow of War is a massive game, and jumping into it can feel daunting. Here’s what you need to know to build a lasting, memorable relationship with your new orc buddies.

Don’t worry too much about the story

While you should chip away at the main quests from time to time, especially for the first act of the game, Shadow of War’s story is not the star of the show. Take time to explore the world. Meet as many random orcs as you can, because they will end up being the most memorable part of the experience.


Remember that every death matters

Whenever Talion dies, Shadow of Mordor’s internal clock presses forward. If an orc killed you, they will move up in rank and become stronger. Other orcs out on missions will have their quests resolved, or die in the process. Orcs shift on the totem pole, or learn new tricks. While the game always lets you come back from death, every change that happens as a result is permanent. You can’t just reload an earlier save. So, try not to die...unless you want the nemesis system to work its magic.

Look at your mini-map

Things like quests, Mirian, intel, collectables and more will be denoted here. The minimap also makes things like following orc tracks way easier.

Take back the Haedir towers

The first thing you should do on any new map is track down the Haedir so that you can do its little mini-game. Once you find all the points of interest at the Haedir, it will turn into a fast travel point.

Upgrade your skills

Different play styles will prioritize different skill unlocks, but some abilities are better than others. It’s a good idea to start by getting all the wraith skills. From there, you’ll want Caragor and Graug riding, fire detonation, freeze pin, shadow strike, elven ability, ground finisher, and of course, executions. I particularly love Hammer of Eregion, which freezes any enemy that you vault over.

Check out an orc’s profile

Information is your strongest weapon in Shadow of War. Before you take on any orc, make sure to press the “details” button. Here you will find an orc’s strengths, weaknesses, fears, and immunities. Keep all of that in mind before you head into battle: you don’t want to make the mistake of wasting a powerful move just to find out your target is immune to it. Pay particular attention to vulnerabilities that either daze or heavily damage your opponent, and exploit the hell out of them during battle.

Use your environment

Look around you. What do you see? Make use of it. Every area will have something Talion can weaponize, including fire, spider nests, caragor pens, and more. If your target is immune to any of these environmental elements, it’s still good to be aware of them, because that stuff can harm you, too.