Name: Puzzlegeddon
Genre: Puzzle, Action
Platform: PC

With the birth of the casual game came the first appearances of a new type of gamer culture: the hardcore casual gamer. These are the people spending ten hours a night playing Bejeweled, throwing Wii Sports parties several years after the console's release, and walking around with a DS, bragging about their Brain Age. While they begin in casual, simple games, they tend to grow and look for games with slightly more complicated mechanics. Sure most aren't ready for Fallout or Persona, but games blending casual gameplay with hardcore appeal seem to be a perfect fit for this new breed. However, the games sometimes coming off as either too hardcore or too casual, failing to really bridge the gap between the two sides

Puzzlegeddon, a puzzler with war-room elements added in, looks to avoid that folly. The cutsey, slick presentation and simplistic gameplay disguises the addictive core, which has a wealth of replayability and competitive value. The puzzle itself sits inside of a planet with islands protruding the surface. Inside, all too familiar colored blocks must be matched together. This might sound a bit dated, but it takes on a slightly different form than the typical Bejweled clones on the market. By moving columns either vertically or horizontally players must match together chains of similar colors, which fill meters that can be used to activate skills. The four colors of blocks, green, red, yellow, and blue, each represent a different element of the game, and matching together like-colored blocks adds points to their respective meters, each with three tiers of power.