Archive | September, 2013

News Alert – G5’s Red Crow Mysteries for Mac NOW 70% off – Limited Time Offer

25 Sep

Starting today, September 23rd, through September 29th, get “Red Crow Mysteries: Legion” for Mac for only $1.99, 70% off MSRP, care of G5 Games. In the game you play as a “gifted” young girl who wakes to find “something” went horribly wrong. You’re informed by your dead mother’s ghost that you were gifted with special powers that should help you in your battle between good and evil. Now you’ll be tested to prove you are strong enough to defeat Legion. You will need to explore dark and eerie locations to find clues, search for special items and solve tricky puzzles. Pass the ultimate test, defeat the impending threat and preserve the world as we know it.

There are three game modes for your choice: easy, casual and adventure. Traditionally, an adventure mode is the most difficult – the hint recharges much more slowly, you cannot skip puzzles, you do not have lists of hidden items and active zones are not highlighted. Whether you are a newcomer to the genre or just want to spend a few hours looking for hidden items and solving challenging puzzles, Red Crow Mysteries is the right choice for you.

The game is developed by Cateia Games and published on Mac OS by G5 Entertainment.

Key Features:

  • 73 hidden object scenes to search
  • 25 challenging mini-games to play
  • Three awesome chapters with six eye-catching locations
  • Three game play modes: easy, casual and adventure

 

When: Starting today, September 23, 2013 through September 29, 2013

Where:
Mac App Store:
Red Crow Mysteries: Legion for Mac
Red Crow Mysteries: Legion (Full) for Mac

About G5 Entertainment AB
G5 Entertainment AB is a developer and publisher of high quality downloadable games for iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, Kindle Fire, and Nook tablets. G5 develops and publishes games that are family-friendly, easy to learn, and targeted at the widest audience of experienced and novice players. G5 owns a number of popular game franchises like Virtual City, Special Enquiry Detail, Supermarket Mania, Stand O’Food, and Mahjongg Artifacts, and invests in creating new games and bringing established franchises to new gaming platforms.

More information about the company can be found at: www.g5e.se/corporate.

G5’s Special Enquiry Detail: Engaged to Kill Hits Kindle Fire Today

13 Sep

Help SED detectives solve the case of gruesome murderers in this chilling hidden object challenge!

San Francisco, California – September 12, 2013 – G5 Games is proud to announce that detectives Lamonte and Turino are on the case again in Special Enquiry Detail: Engaged to Kill, available now on Kindle Fire. This exciting hidden object adventure sequel has already conquered iOS and Android players audience with its CSI-like puzzles, witty dialogues and vivid graphics. Check it out on your Kindle Fire yourself!

A serial killer is on the loose and it is up to the SED detectives to solve a series of gruesome murders of young brides. An elite detective team works their case diligently through various clues to find the murderer before he strikes again. Lamonte and Turino seem to get trapped in this horrific, smartly planned case of cat and mouse. Help the New York detectives uncover the horrible, sassy maniac and catch him before he kills again in this chilling hidden object challenge!

Just like the first episode, Special Enquiry Detail: Engaged to Kill features amazing detailed graphics, realistic scenery and twisted plot that will keep you engaged for hours. Do you think you have what it takes to bring the killer to justice? Take on Special Enquiry Detail: Engaged to Kill and see if you have what it takes to solve this case.

Key Features:

  • 6 highly engaging chapters
  • 44 detailed locations to examine
  • 22 mini-game puzzles
  • A tense story with multiple suspects

 

When: Today, September 12, 2013

Where:
Amazon Appstore:
Special Enquiry Detail: Engaged to Kill for Kindle Fire

About G5 Entertainment
G5 Entertainment  is a developer and publisher of high quality downloadable games for iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, Kindle Fire, and Nook tablets. G5 develops and publishes games that are family-friendly, easy to learn, and targeted at the widest audience of experienced and novice players. G5 owns a number of popular game franchises like Virtual City, Special Enquiry Detail, Supermarket Mania, Stand O’Food, and Mahjongg Artifacts, and invests in creating new games and bringing established franchises to new gaming platforms.

More information about the company can be found at: www.g5e.se/corporate.

G5’s Virtual City Playground Gets a Major Update on Google Play

13 Sep

Build a top-of-the-line airship, an Eco Skyscraper, invite your friends to your city, share gifts and experience the thrill of managing your Virtual City more than ever!

San Francisco, California – September 12, 2013 – G5 Entertainment’s best-selling city builder, Virtual City Playground, got a major update today. The new version adds social features, new quests, new buildings, new events, and tweaks. Update your Virtual City Playground and invite your friends to visit your dream city, ask them for help and share special gifts. Build an Eco Skyscraper and a weather station, construct a hangar and run an airship, set up a mass transit system and save free space with a premium tech station, and even more!

Socialize in your Virtual City – invite other Virtual City Playground players, your friends from Facebook, Game Center or add them from the phone contact list to receive and gift useful items, bonuses, energy and invest points. With the help from your friends you can complete the quests faster. Build an Eco Skyscraper that enhances the environment of your city. Save more space with a premium tech station that has a larger coverage area so you do not have to build lots of smaller service stations. Construct a hangar with your friends, run an airship to increase the level of happiness of your citizens, build the weather station to get the appropriate forecast for flights, complete over 40 new quests, and enjoy the polished and improved user interface. The Virtual City Playground update 1.11 makes your city-managing experience more fun and entertaining.

Virtual City Playground is a sim-social that lets your imagination run wild so that you can look down at your wonderful metropolis and marvel at the wonders you’ve created. Please your inhabitants by providing them with tons of business opportunities and true-to-life neighbourhoods, and entertainment facilities, among other amenities. Master trade, resources and balance between the booming development and the traffic that is a subsequent effect of the former.

Virtual City Playground is deep and ever evolving, yet easy to master. It is no wonder that Virtual City Playground has become one of the most beloved city-building simulators and ranks as a Top 10 Grossing Game in 100 countries, including UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, China, Russia, and many many more. And G5 continues to enhance the gaming experience by launching regular free updates to this hit city-builder, thus always giving gamers something new to dig into, solve and create.

What’s new in version 1.11:

★ SOCIALIZE with friends! Send gifts to them and get energy and invest points in return.
★ BUILD an Eco Skyscraper with friends and put your dream city on the map one floor at a time!
★ CONSTRUCT a top-of-the-line airship and conquer the skies above your city!
★ TACKLE new quests! Nearly 50 new challenges to master – can you complete them all?
★ BEAUTIFY your city with new decorations and public art designed to uplift and inspire!
★ UTILIZE a new, more efficient premium tech station and a weather station.
★ PLAY FASTER! Recalculation optimization allows you to get back into your city in no time flat!

About the game:

Build the city of your dreams… and then run it!

  • City-building just got social! Invite your friends to play and turn your real-life community into a true virtual playground.
  • Build an Eco Skyscraper with your friends and put your cutting-edge city on the map one floor at a time.
  • Construct an airship so you can check out your city from above and call your friends to build a hangar for it!
  • Manufacture a variety of retail goods and deliver them to your sleek and enticing shopping malls.
  • Set up a mass transit system to transport your city dwellers to parks, cinemas, stadiums and more.
  • Utilize a new, more efficient premium tech station to keep citywide transportation running smoothly.
  • Recycle garbage, plant trees, upgrade your buildings and add new hospitals and fire stations.
  • Reward your happy, responsible citizens by organizing truly spectacular public events for them!

Includes:

  • Over 300 uplifting quests to tackle as you grow and enhance your city
  • Over 165 buildings, landmarks and decorations for city beautification
  • Nearly 100 challenging achievements to earn and celebrate with your friends
  • Regular FREE updates to keep you stimulated and entertained

When:  September 12, 2013

Where:
Google Play:
Virtual City Playground for Google Play

About G5 Entertainment
G5 Entertainment  is a developer and publisher of high quality downloadable games for iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, Kindle Fire, and Nook tablets. G5 develops and publishes games that are family-friendly, easy to learn, and targeted at the widest audience of experienced and novice players. G5 owns a number of popular game franchises like Virtual City, Special Enquiry Detail, Supermarket Mania, Stand O’Food, and Mahjongg Artifacts, and invests in creating new games and bringing established franchises to new gaming platforms.

More information about the company can be found at: www.g5e.se/corporate.

G5’s The Island: Castaway 2® Drifts to App Store Today

13 Sep

Embark on an unbelievable adventure that will change the life of the island’s people

San Francisco, California – September 12, 2013 – The much-anticipated sequel to the vibrant simulation game – The Island: Castaway 2® is here, care of G5 Entertainment and Awem Studio. This time this adventurous simulation game throws you back in time so that you can uncover the history of the island long before the original castaways had landed. You will be playing as Yati, an orphan who has been brought up by the whole island’s tribe. Haunted by hallucinations, Yati has to decide what to make of his life… Embark on an unbelievable adventure that will change the life of the island’s tribe!

Explore the large, picturesque island and learn to fish, catch millipedes, shoot the leap-quicks and boars, garden and harvest, cook, make arrows, cut trees and even practice sorcery! Decipher tricky riddles to become a New Man of the tribe. Create potions and always be mindful about your protection while you are exploring the dangerous Marshy Woods and the mysterious Ancestors Woods. Keep a sharp eye to be able to complete the Rarities Collections and help the weird scientist, Professor Langst. Meet all the inhabitants of the island, discover the tribe’s many secrets and see who will be the new Island Keeper. By solving tons of challenging quests, you’ll eventually be able to find out why the tribe left their village and what the Sanctuary originally looked like – before the big mystery was revealed!

The Island: Castaway 2 will feel familiar to the fans of the first adventure in the series, and offer newcomers to the game just as much fun and absorbing entertainment. Some improvements will also make your game more enjoyable right from the start. Now, by tapping a star on the map (that represents a hero you want to talk to) you will get Yati run directly to the destination. There are numerous animals you can hunt, but some of them will “hunt” you and take your energy. If you lose too much energy, you will faint and lose a few items from your bag. But soon you will learn to prepare potions that make you stronger, faster, protect you from threats and even instantly teleport you across the island.

This adventurous simulation game spent over two weeks in Top 10 of the most prominent casual game charts, when launched on PC. Now the iOS version is ready to entertain players with attractive characters, smooth animations, over 300 engaging quests and a fascinating plot. Hours of fun are waiting for you in The Island: Castaway 2! So what are you waiting for?

The game is developed and published on iOS by G5 Entertainment under license from Awem Studio.

Key Features:

  • A huge, colorful island to explore
  • Over 300 intriguing quests to complete
  • 16 original and engaging characters
  • 28 rarities to collect for Professor Langst
  • 11 unique recipes to master
  • Dozens of vegetables, herbs and fruits to grow

The Island: Castaway 2 is available for download to iPhone and iPad today. Gamers can try the game for free and unlock the full version through an in-app purchase for $4.99 on iPhone and $6.99 on iPad. Originally the game was developed for PC by Awem Studio.

When:  September 12, 2013

Where:
iTunes Store:
The Island: Castaway 2 for iPhone
The Island: Castaway 2 HD for iPad

About G5 Entertainment
G5 Entertainment  is a developer and publisher of high quality downloadable games for iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, Kindle Fire, and Nook tablets. G5 develops and publishes games that are family-friendly, easy to learn, and targeted at the widest audience of experienced and novice players. G5 owns a number of popular game franchises like Virtual City, Special Enquiry Detail, Supermarket Mania, Stand O’Food, and Mahjongg Artifacts, and invests in creating new games and bringing established franchises to new gaming platforms.

More information about the company can be found at: www.g5e.se/corporate.

News Alert – G5 Sale: Get Masters of Mystery 2 For 99¢ (iOS, Google Play) – Limited Time Offer

10 Sep

G5 Entertainment announced today that Masters of Mystery: Blood of Betrayal is now available for only 99¢ on iPhone, Google Play and $1.99 on iPad. From September 9th through the 15th, catch this lucky discount and enjoy this intense detective, hidden object adventure at up to 70% off.

Join Carrie Chase while she investigates a troubling double homicide in an exclusive penthouse. Upon discovering two dead bodies in a penthouse, it’s up to the experienced detective to unravel the clues behind these grisly murders. As Chase progresses through the investigation, startling secrets about her past life begin to emerge. Experience breath-taking scenes, challenging mini games, and an intense story, in this exciting Hidden Object game.

Sharp graphics, pleasant voice acting and analytic puzzles will absorb your attention for hours. You’ll have to make a handwriting analysis, examine drug samples, match fingerprints and solve anagrams. As in the first chapter, you’ll find useful tools that will be added to your inventory. Use flashlight to explore the dark locations, UV filter light to search for blood stains and boot prints, a duster to reveal fingerprints and a magnifying glass to magnify the area several times and make it easier to spot small items. Call up your inner secret agent and crack this shady case! The game is developed by Big Blue Bubble and published on iOS and Android OS by G5 Entertainment.

Key Features:

  • 40 Realistic locations in 3 gripping chapters
  • 10 Unique mini-games
  • 4 Extraordinary tools
  • 2 Game modes: timed and relaxed

 

When: Starting today, September 9, 2013 through September 15, 2013

Where:
iTunes Store:
Masters of Mystery: Blood of Betrayal for iPhone
Masters of Mystery: Blood of Betrayal HD for iPad
Google Play:
Masters of Mystery: Blood of Betrayal for Google Play

About G5 Entertainment
G5 Entertainment  is a developer and publisher of high quality downloadable games for iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, Kindle Fire, and Nook tablets. G5 develops and publishes games that are family-friendly, easy to learn, and targeted at the widest audience of experienced and novice players. G5 owns a number of popular game franchises like Virtual City, Special Enquiry Detail, Supermarket Mania, Stand O’Food, and Mahjongg Artifacts, and invests in creating new games and bringing established franchises to new gaming platforms.

More information about the company can be found at: www.g5e.se/corporate.

G5’s Special Enquiry Detail: Engaged to Kill™ Engages Google Play and Nook Today

5 Sep

Help SED detectives solve the case of gruesome murderers in this chilling hidden object challenge!

Special Enquiry Detail 2 - screenshot thumbnail

San Francisco, California – September 5, 2013 – G5 Games is proud to announce that detectives Lamonte and Turino are on the case again in the new exciting detective, hidden object adventure, Special Enquiry Detail: Engaged to Kill™, available now on Google Play and Nook.

Special Enquiry Detail 2 - screenshot

A serial killer is on the loose and it is up to the SED detectives to solve a series of gruesome murders of young brides. An elite detective team works their case diligently through various clues to find the murderer before he strikes again. Lamonte and Turino seem to get trapped in this horrific, smartly planned case of cat and mouse. Help the New York detectives uncover the horrible, sassy maniac and catch him before he kills again in this chilling hidden object challenge!

Special Enquiry Detail 2 - screenshot

Just like the first episode, Special Enquiry Detail: Engaged to Kill™ features amazing detailed graphics, realistic scenery and twisted plot that will keep you engaged for hours. Do you think you have what it takes to bring the killer to justice? Take on Special Enquiry Detail: Engaged to Kill™ and see if you have what it takes to solve this case.

Key Features:

  • 6 highly engaging chapters
  • 44 detailed locations to examine
  • 22 mini-game puzzles
  • A tense story with multiple suspects

 

Where:
Google Play:
Special Enquiry Detail: Engaged to Kill™ for Google Play
Nook Store:
Special Enquiry Detail: Engaged to Kill™ for Nook

Also available on:
iPhone and iPad

About G5 Entertainment
G5 Entertainment  is a developer and publisher of high quality downloadable games for iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, Kindle Fire, and Nook tablets. G5 develops and publishes games that are family-friendly, easy to learn, and targeted at the widest audience of experienced and novice players. G5 owns a number of popular game franchises like Virtual City, Special Enquiry Detail, Supermarket Mania, Stand O’Food, and Mahjongg Artifacts, and invests in creating new games and bringing established franchises to new gaming platforms.

More information about the company can be found at: www.g5e.se/corporate.

Supermarket Management 2 Now Available on iOS, care of G5 & Playful Age

5 Sep

Grow a competitive grocery chain in this addictive time management hit

San Francisco, California – September 5, 2013 – The long-awaited Supermarket Management 2 has just hit the shelves of iOS, care of G5 Entertainment and Playful Age. Upon its initial launch on PC, this fast-paced time management game spent over two weeks in top 10 of major casual game charts. Now it’s in stock on the App Store for you to take try your hand at managing a chain of supermarkets.

iPhone Screenshot 1

This time you help Kate start her own business and work with her to expand it into a supermarket chain. Become the manager of a small roadside shop and end up as the owner of a competitive grocery chain in this addictive time management game. Serve customers quickly to keep them happy. It’s on you to stock shelves with goods, weigh fruit, offer fresh meat to your customers, provide them with shopping carts and cash them up. Work hard enough to complete levels as an expert with the carts in their place and refilled stands. Then you’ll be able to hire additional workers and invest your profits in new equipment, thus grow your business. Fun mini-games, such as catching the fish that a client wants or weighting the right sort of cheese, will add to the happiness level and cash to your pockets. With its true-to-life scenario and gripping pace, Supermarket Management 2 reveals your true leadership abilities in a highly entertaining manner!

iPhone Screenshot 3

iPhone Screenshot 5

The game is developed by Playful Age and published on iOS by G5 Entertainment.

Key Features:

  • 49 challenging levels
  • 22 achievements to earn
  • Nine whimsical characters
  • Eight exciting mini-games
  • Five fascinating locations

When: Today, September 5, 2013

Where:
iTunes Store
Supermarket Management 2 for iPhone
Supermarket Management 2 HD for iPad

About G5 Entertainment
G5 Entertainment  is a developer and publisher of high quality downloadable games for iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, Kindle Fire, and Nook tablets. G5 develops and publishes games that are family-friendly, easy to learn, and targeted at the widest audience of experienced and novice players. G5 owns a number of popular game franchises like Virtual City, Special Enquiry Detail, Supermarket Mania, Stand O’Food, and Mahjongg Artifacts, and invests in creating new games and bringing established franchises to new gaming platforms.

More information about the company can be found at: www.g5e.se/corporate.

G5’s Twin Moons Appears on Mac & in Full Version on iOS

5 Sep

Piece together the truth about a mysterious portal that could change the world as we know it!

San Francisco, California – September 4, 2013 – G5 Entertainment today presents the launch of Twin Moons on Mac, and on iOS as a full, paid app. Twin Moons is an enigmatic hidden object adventure, with two alternative endings, that tells the story of a talented scientist, who worked on a secret mission to open the Half World and give people divine powers. And you are the one to choose if people get immortality or not…

Jack, a researcher at the isolated Twin Moons Institute, has lost his memory after a car accident. But, a few fuzzy flashbacks suggest he participated in some kind of dangerous experiment. You’ll have to reveal shocking secrets from the past and save the future in this thrilling hidden object adventure. Help Jack find answers to his numerous questions and decide whether his friends, colleagues and even his fiancée are worthy of his trust. Explore eerie locations and piece together the truth about the mysterious portal that could change the world as we know it!

You’ll start your adventure at the gates to the Twin Moons Institute and have to revive Jack’s memory by investigating numerous locations. His diary will keep the track of this fantastic story and help you find the clues to mysterious puzzles. Three game modes – casual, adventure and challenge – will satisfy experienced players as well as newcomers to the genre. Crisp graphics, pleasant voice-over, engrossing story and a twisted ending that depends on your choice will provide hours of delightful gaming experience.

The game is developed and published on Mac & iOS by G5 Entertainment.

Key Features:

  • 51 creepy and enigmatic levels
  • 20 challenging mini-games to master
  • 18 achievements to earn along the way
  • Two alternative endings – you choose!
  • Intriguing storyline and vivid characters

Twin Moons is available for download on Mac and in full version on iPhone and iPad today. The MSRP of the game is $4.99 for iPhone and $6.99 for Mac & iPad.

When: September 4, 2013

Where:
Mac App Store:
Twin Moons for Mac
iTunes Store:
Twin Moons (Full) for iPhone
Twin Moons HD (Full) for iPad

About G5 Entertainment
G5 Entertainment  is a developer and publisher of high quality downloadable games for iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, Kindle Fire, and Nook tablets. G5 develops and publishes games that are family-friendly, easy to learn, and targeted at the widest audience of experienced and novice players. G5 owns a number of popular game franchises like Virtual City, Special Enquiry Detail, Supermarket Mania, Stand O’Food, and Mahjongg Artifacts, and invests in creating new games and bringing established franchises to new gaming platforms.

More information about the company can be found at: www.g5e.se/corporate.

News Alert – G5 Starts Autumn with a Big Sale: 20 Hits Available For 99¢ (All Platforms) – Limited Time Offer

3 Sep

G5 Entertainment starts autumn with a big sale – twenty fan favorites are now available for only 99¢ on iPhone, Google Play, Kindle Fire, $1.99 on iPad and Mac. From September 2nd through the 8th, catch this lucky discount and enjoy the best G5 games at up to 70% off:

More information: www.g5e.com/sale.

When: Starting today, September 2, 2013 through September 8, 2013

About G5 Entertainment
G5 Entertainment  is a developer and publisher of high quality downloadable games for iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, Kindle Fire, and Nook tablets. G5 develops and publishes games that are family-friendly, easy to learn, and targeted at the widest audience of experienced and novice players. G5 owns a number of popular game franchises like Virtual City, Special Enquiry Detail, Supermarket Mania, Stand O’Food, and Mahjongg Artifacts, and invests in creating new games and bringing established franchises to new gaming platforms.

More information about the company can be found at: www.g5e.se/corporate.