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To help celebrate the success of Nick Chase: A Detective Story for the iPhone and iPod touch and the subsequent $0.99 sale, we're giving away two (2) $50 iTunes gift certificates. All you have to do is go get Nick Chase: A Detective Story from the iTunes App Store and sign up for the Big Fish Games' iSplash Newsletter. We'll choose two lucky winners at random from everyone who signs up for iSplash.

The contest starts today and ends Sunday at 11:59pm so make sure you get over to iTunes before it's too late.

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We’re happy to report Nick Chase: A Detective Story is being featured on the iTunes App Store this week! Along with Shrek Kart and Rock Band, Nick Chase can be seen on the rotating header on the Apps home page. That’s good company to be in!

This marks the first release from Big Fish Games to be featured by the App Store and we’re extremely happy about it. We’re publishing games for the iPhone and iPod touch as quickly as we can with many great titles targeted for future release.

Nick Chase is currently rated as 4 Stars and we think it is more than deserving. Here is what people who’ve played the game are saying...

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Big Fish Games’ Studios is proud to announce the release of Nick Chase: A Detective Story for the iPhone and iPod touch.

Nick Chase, a hard-boiled Private Investigator, is in need of a job. Lucky for him, one arrives from a man known only as The Collector. Solve a variety of puzzles and find hidden clues to uncover the mystery behind the missing manuscript penned by Leonardo Di Vinci.

Explore gorgeous hand drawn scenes with a gritty film noir style in this one of a kind adventure game where everyone is a suspect!

The game plays like an interactive film noir graphic novel with amazingly beautiful hand drawn scenes. Use your own detective skills to find evidence in hidden object scenes and solve a wide variety of puzzles. You can also listen to your iPod library while playing with fully integrated OS3 music controls (although we recommend you don’t...the Nick Chase soundtrack is great for setting the mood).

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Big Fish Games’ Studios is proud to announce the release of Nocturnal: Boston Nightfall for the iPhone and iPod touch.

Play as recently deceased Claire unraveling the secrets of her undead powers in this shadow-soaked Hidden Object game! Solve elaborate puzzles on your path to becoming a Nocturnal or Brethren. Quickly seek out mystical hidden objects to enhance your eldritch powers! The night is beckoning, will you answer?

Scour 30 different locations; from subway tunnels to graveyards as you seek to master brain teasing mini-games while traveling through fascinating comic book like scenes.

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Big Fish Games’ Studios is proud to announce the release of Atlantis Sky Patrol for the iPhone and iPod touch.

It’s your job to take flight and knock out more than 100 doomsday devices that have been planted around the world.

Travel to each destination on the map and eliminate chains of marbles by strategically matching colors in sets of three. Knock out cleverly placed stationary marbles to block additional chains from entering the track and destroy the device on each level. Easy to learn, but difficult to master, this unique new twist on the classic marble-popping game is nearly impossible to put down!

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Big Fish Games’ Studios is proud to announce the release of Hidden Mysteries: Civil War for the iPhone and iPod touch.

Travel back in time to join General Alexander, loyal follower of Abe Lincoln, for a riveting Civil War reenactment. Members of a secret society left letters and clues that will lead you to millions of dollars in gold, cash, and coin - if you can find them!

Scour 18 hidden object levels that lead you through the original Civil War battlefields as you advancing through time from the Battle of Fort Sumter (1861) to Lee’s surrender at Appotomattox (1865). Cross rivers and grassy knolls to unearth Hidden Mysteries of the Civil War.

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Big Fish Games’ Studios is proud to announce the release of Rainbow Web 2 for the iPhone and iPod touch.

Rainbow Web II welcomes you again to the wonderful world of the Rainbow Kingdom - now on your iPhone and iPod touch!

The Royal Palace is still in the grip of the Sorcerer Spider, who has weaved a web of spells, making the palace into the last citadel of evil in the magic kingdom. Match gems on webs, play a Hidden Object mini-game, and put together jigsaw puzzles to rid the land of evil.

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Big Fish Games' Studios is proud to announce the release of Hidden Expedition: Titanic for the iPhone and iPod touch.

Return to the wreck of the great steamship RMS Titanic as you travel back to 1942 and dive to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. As a member of the Hidden Expedition Adventure League (HEAL), you must explore the wreckage of this once-majestic ship and collect antique artifacts for the Titanic Museum.

Scour 17 locations on the ship over 14 dive missions as you search for cleverly-hidden clues that will lead you to the ultimate artifact: The Crown Jewels.

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Now you can win free games on Facebook!

Starting this Friday, July 3rd, we’re committing to two months of Free Game Fridays (maybe we’ll keep going after that...we’ll see...).

Here’s how it works. Every Friday until the end of August, we’ll post a question on the Big Fish Games Facebook page. Your job is to seek out the answer to that question and email it to promos (at) bigfishgames.com. We’ll choose a winner at random from all correct entries and award them coupons for free games!

The questions will vary and may ask you to play a downloadable game, visit the Forums, play an online game, or even come back to the Blog. Have no fear, it shouldn’t take you more than a few minutes to find the answers. This is meant to be fun, not work...wait a minute...isn’t everything here fun? ;)

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Big Fish Games’ Studios is proud to announce the release of Cooking Quest for the iPhone and iPod touch.

Congratulations, you’ve been awarded a coveted entry for the Chef’s Challenge contest in Foodville’s Restaurant Row!

Grease the cast-iron skillets as you gather ingredients to smoke the competition away. Manage your budget as you create multi-course gourmet meals in Foodville’s most elite restaurants. Can you stand the heat and become a Master Chef? Start at Chop City Steakhouse on Restaurant Row and find out in this time-management Cooking Quest.

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Big Fish Games’ Studios is proud to announce the release of Hidden Mysteries: Buckingham Palace for the iPhone and iPod touch.

In Hidden Mysteries ™: Buckingham Palace you must peel back the curtains on one of the grandest buildings in the western world to look for treasure and uncover its deepest secrets.

Learn fun facts about several royal locations while you search for hidden objects and play ingenious mini-games. Follow romantic notes strewn across beautifully rendered scenes in this exciting sequel to Hidden Mysteries: Civil War. Learn fun royal facts as you play clever mini-games and use collected items to solve challenging puzzles.

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Big Fish Games’ Studios is proud to announce the release of Virtual Villagers: A New Home for the iPhone and iPod touch.

These poor villagers washed up on shore after surviving a horrific volcanic eruption. It’s up to you to guide them in learning how to survive in this real-time simulation game.

Islanders learn by doing, but you might have to keep an eye on them to make sure they don’t give up too easily. They need to become farmers, builders, scientists, parents and more in order to thrive on this new island.

You are the leader and the only one who can help the villagers build a proud new home. How will you lead your tribe?

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With so much buzz around mobile gaming on the Apple iPhone, it was only a matter of time before a Big Fish Games title made its way to this capable and exciting platform. Following on the heels of the successful development and release of Mystery Case Files: MillionHeir for the Nintendo DS, Hidden Expedition: Everest was targeted as the first release for the iPhone. Learn more about this great title and other Big Fish Games for the iPhone and iPod touch.

Shawn Wood (Lead Artist) and Tyson Chihaya (Lead Programmer) were tasked with transitioning Everest from the PC to the iPhone. A downloadable gaming hit, the Hidden Expedition series of games have established themselves as a well known brand among casual gamers. This resulted in the redesign of Hidden Expedition: Everest carrying with it certain expectations. "We wanted to make sure we kept the core integrity of the game intact, however, our #1 goal was to make sure it remained a good game. Also, this was our first game for the iPhone so we felt a bit of pressure to get it right," said Shawn Wood.

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