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TUAW's Daily Mac App: Bejeweled 3

by Samuel Gibbs (Aug 1st, 2011)

Fancy an addictive, fun, casual game for your Mac? Look no further than the classic Bejeweled, now back in its third iteration on the Mac. Played either in full screen or windowed, the standard game hasn't changed, you still match three or more gems in a row to clear them from the board. ...

TUAW's Daily App: GemCraft

by Mike Schramm (Apr 18th, 2011)

You may have played GemCraft before -- it's a pretty popular Flash game that's been available for a while now. It's a tower defense game, though the new layer here is that your towers are actually powered by gems, which allows you to do things like move them around for various monster waves and ...

TUAW's Daily App: Tripolar

by Mike Schramm (Oct 13th, 2010)

Tripolar makes a big point of saying that it's not a match-3 game, and though the grid looks similar to that matching genre, it's really not. But it is a puzzle game. The idea is that you have pieces coming in on top of the board, and touching anywhere on the grid will insert that piece and delete ...

TUAW's Daily App: The Screetch

by Mike Schramm (Jul 30th, 2010)

The Screetch is a great game with a funny name. At its heart, it's a match three game; you want to match three of a kind for a certain round gem while you're constantly dropping them from above (Tetris style). The game's namesake is where things get slimy, though. The Screetch is constantly ...