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PetVille Weekly Challenges: Warm Welcomer & Smooch Fest

Kate Hancock — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:16:21 +0000

There are two new challenges now available in PetVille: “Warm Welcomer” and “Smooch Fest”. These will require an open heart, a helping hand and lots of lips. Pucker up! Here’s how to complete this week’s challenges and earn the corresponding Badges, Love Points and Coins:

Warm Welcomer (less than 7 days left) – Visit a neighbor who is new to PetVille! The neighbor must have just joined PetVille for the first time in the past 7 days. They cannot just un-install and rejoin PetVille to qualify.

Smooch Fest (less than 7 days left) – Kiss 10 neighbors this week. Click on the purple balloon icon at your neighbor’s house and give them a kiss. You can kiss the same neighbor more than once, but it must be on different days. Click the purple balloon icon to open the “Let’s Play!” menu.
By the way, what do you think about PetVille’s new look? Zynga redesigned the game interface in response to players complaining about buttons getting in the way. I think it’s pretty snazzy. Good luck completing the new challenges this week!

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PetVille New Weekly Challenges: Good Neighboring Award and Pet Star

Kate Hancock — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:46:00 +0000

Two new weekly challenges are now available in PetVille! This week you’ll need to clean up after your friends to claim big Happy Neighborhood bonuses, and accept multiple Movie Awards nominations and light sabers to become a star, and complete the challenges, of course!

This week’s challenges include:

Good Neighboring Award – Collect the Happy Neighborhood bonus for 10 or more neighbors twice in one week. Make at least 10 neighbors all clean and claim your Happy Neighborhood bonus! Repeat this action twice in one week (while having at least 10 happy – smiley, green – pets in your neighborhood) to complete the challenge. They don’t have to be the same 10 neighbors.
Pet Star - Accept 10 nominations and 5 laser swords as gifts this week. Collect a total of 10 nominations and 5 laser sword gifts (from the PetVille Movie Awards section in the Free Gifts tab). Nominations of any kind will count, as will gifts you have already received.

Remember, you only have 7 days to complete the PetVille weekly challenges before the deadline. Roll out the red carpet for your pet’s friends and start earning these new badges today!

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New Kongregate Badge: 4 Differences

Jesse Henning — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:25:02 +0000

There’s just one badge to earn with Kongregate’s latest featured title, but it’s well worth the effort. 4 Differences, a visual puzzler from Ivoryboy, is another successful iteration in the “Differences” lineup, all of which ask you to simply locate a few subtle differences between two pictures, just like the Sunday newspaper. Unlike the paper, of course, “Differences” poses the challenge with soothing music and beautiful visuals — sometimes even including moving differences.

All three games will earn you a Kongregate badge, so if you haven’t played the predecessors, you ought to. Check out 5 Differences and 6 Differences, and when you’re ready, play the new title here. Completing the game will earn you a 15 point badge.

Happy hunting!

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New Kongregate Badges: Bowmaster Prelude

Jesse Henning — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:31:22 +0000

Today’s unlockable achievements are for one of Kongregate’s slightly older titles — an oldie but a goodie. Bowmaster Prelude, the arrow-slinging adventure from LostVectors, challenges players to draw back their bowstrings and unleash hell on an advancing horde. That’s always a good idea, mind you, but now you can earn badges, too.

If you haven’t tried any of the Bowmaster games, you’re missing out on a lot of fun. Prelude adds a wide selection of powers to the mix, and introduces some real-time strategy elements by allowing players to send their own armies to the opposing castle. Still, at its heart, Bowmaster Prelude retains its simple yet elegant gameplay mechanic — picking an angle, setting the power, and plunging an arrow through a bad person’s head. Just watch out for your own soldiers, they’re not arrow-immune.

There are three badges to earn, worth a total of 50 points.

Aim true!

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New Kongregate Badges: Dream World

Jesse Henning — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:37:09 +0000

The new badges available to Kongregate players today are a little different: In order to earn the gaming network’s latest achievements, you will need to play a game called Dream World, a turn-based RPG that works very much like a Facebook game. Specifically, players will go through all of the usual RPG tropes, including fighting monsters and completing quests for more XP, skills, and equipment… but they will also be expending “energy” on each quest, which recovers over real-world time, or is replenished with Kongregate Kreds, the site’s microcurrency. Starting to sound familiar?

The similarities don’t end there — once you’ve established yourself in Dream World, you can head to the arena to fight against other players for big rewards — and there are item bonuses for referrals, and special Kreds-only premium gear up for sale. To be fair, though, Dream World does have a lot going for it, as far as level-grinding games go. There are genuine choices to be made during fights, and some puzzle-oriented encounters which do involve a lot more thinking than “click here to advance” like many social games. As mentioned, there are badges, too — four of them, worth 80 profile points.

Tally-ho!

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New Kongregate Badge: I Remain

Jesse Henning — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:23:49 +0000

Why on earth would you want to remain here? It’s full of Zombies! Thankfully, the new badge available over at Kongregate is a simple one to get, and is received for doing the smart thing: Playing through horror-themed escape game I Remain and getting out of there!

As point-and-click escape games go, I Remain won’t take you too long to finish. Despite the ever-present zombies (which lead to some nice, creepy ambient moaning), you’re never in much danger of being killed, and there are only a few puzzles that will keep you scratching your head for very long. Finish the game, be sure to wait for the ending, and grab yourself a relatively easy 15 point badge.

Remember to block the doors!

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New Kongregate Badges: Battalion: Vengeance

Jesse Henning — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:21:34 +0000

If you’re a fan of turn-based strategy games and you haven’t checked out the Battalion series over at Kongregate, you are doing yourself (and your troops) a gross disservice. Easily as full-featured as an Advance Wars title, Battalion only gets better with each entry, adding harder missions, multiplayer battles, and more — the new entry, Battalion: Vengeance, is the new featured title on the casual gaming network, and it comes with new units and new badges.

There are three badges to earn, totaling 60 points for the dedicated commander. Do yourself a favor and get the first one, at least; you only have to complete a single, easy battle, which will give you a good handle on the game’s new units. From there, you can start scraping your way towards the harder badges, which require you to beat the entire game on hard mode.

Good luck out there!

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New Kongregate Badges: Defend Your Honor

Jesse Henning — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:14:38 +0000

Four new Kongregate badges have arrived, and it’s up to you to Defend Your Honor by claiming them. Seriously, your honor is at stake here, since I’ve already got them. If you don’t get them too, that just makes you look bad.

Defend Your Honor is fairly simple and quick as tower defense games go, but that’s a purposeful move by the creators. The plan was “to create a tower defense game that didn’t become stagnant, so each battle is short and sweet, and feels like a smaller part of the grand scheme of things, rather than wave after wave of repetition.” The game manages this, and keeps things moving with a good dose of humor. Enjoy your quest on behalf of King Walrus, and collect all four badges, worth a total of 40 points.

Happy hunting!

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Win Mass Effect 2 Avatars on Kongregate

Jesse Henning — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:55:25 +0000

A new Kongregate quest has appeared, with six profile avatars and a shiny new medal available for completionists. Themed around the upcoming launch of Mass Effect 2, the “Mass Effect 2 Assemble Your Team” quest tasks users with collecting 6 specific badges, each one themed around one of John Shepard’s new team members. For example, players will have to have to excel at Tactical Assassin 2 to get assassin Thane Krios, or Rage 3 to collect heavy hitter Grunt.

If you already have any of the 6 badges in the quest, they will count as unlocked, and you can log in to unlock the avatars immediately. Unlock all six badges in the quest, and win this handsome medal:

I’ve got mine. Have you?

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New Kongregate Badge: Alice is Dead, Episode 2

Jesse Henning — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:39:48 +0000

Ready to unlock another achievement? There’s only one badge to get in Kongregate’s new featured title, but it’s definitely worth grabbing: Alice is Dead, Episode 2, picks up right where the last installment left off, putting players back in a dark and worrisome take on Carroll’s Wonderland.

It’s difficult to describe this new chapter in ImpendingRiot’s haunting point-and-click adventure without giving away a few spoilers, but Episode 2 definitely takes a much more sinister turn than its predecessor. A couple of hair-pulling puzzles are present, but you should be able to complete the game without any hints in about 20-30 minutes. Do so, and you’ll earn this game’s single badge.

Remember… what the dormouse said.

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