PlayFirst® Invites Fans to Check In To a New Take on the Dash Series,

With Hotel Dash™: Suite Success™

Beloved PlayFirst Character Flo Steps Out of the Diner and Into a New Hotel Adventure in Upcoming Time Management Game

SAN FRANCISCO – November 12, 2009 – PlayFirst®, Inc., the award-winning entertainment company, today announced the upcoming launch of Hotel Dash™: Suite Success™, a new addition to their best-selling Dash® time management series. Bringing an all new vertical twist to the patented time-management gameplay of the Dash series, Hotel Dash: Suite Success puts the well-known characters of Quinn and Flo™ into an all new hotel setting, with a new entrepreneurial hotel venture to tackle.  Hotel Dash: Suite Success will be available at www.PlayFirst.com November 24^th, and other retailers beginning December 24^th, for PC and Mac Digital Download, priced at $19.99.

Players helps Flo launch Quinn’s new travel business by running themed hotels, managing the flow of new & familiar guests, and fulfilling their unique needs & requests – in order to earn tips to refurbish hotels.  Starting with a ramshackle DinerTown™ hotel, players jump into a time management puzzle that sends them up and down the elevator, with a goal of keeping things in order to keep customers happy! Tasks include delivering luggage, handing off fresh towels and providing room service, while attending to room mishaps and customer whims.  Players must travel from top floors to the lobby via the hotel elevators, ensuring smooth hotel operations and collecting tips upon checkout. Juggling customer demands with logistics and an ever-ticking clock, players must be strategic in organizing their time versus customers’ patience and personalities.

As the game progresses, players can manage customer temperament by delivering mood-brightening extras, like floral arrangement and gift baskets. With their earnings, players can then upgrade the rooms and common areas of the hotel, fully renovating them and expanding Quinn’s new business. As the business succeeds, Quinn and Flo tackle additional hotels, with themes ranging from ski retreat to city getaway, taking on new challenges and challenging new guest types.

“Hotels are funny, and romantic and all about customer service,” said Kenny Shea Dinkin, Chief Creative Officer at PlayFirst. “With Hotel Dash: Suite Success, we’ve introduced a new vertical, timing element to the Diner Dash series, set against an exciting and spoofy hotel-culture backdrop. So with its set of new, quirky and demanding Dinertoon guests (sleepwalkers, anyone?) Hotel Dash has players strategically maneuvering to help the clientele across multiple floors of five hilarious hotels.”

Hotel Dash: Suite Success is developed and published by PlayFirst. For more information on the game, or the PlayFirst library of games, visit www.playfirst.com.

“The excitement and fun of the mega-hit COLLAPSE! returns with an all-new Match 3 adventure and never-before-seen gameplay! Strange monsters have invaded and seized once happy lands, turning flourishing farms into webbed dangers and clear blue oceans into murky bogs. Take on the heroic challenge of freeing and restoring these beautiful lands by playing through invigorating COLLAPSE! levels.

Travel around and COLLAPSE! with character as, for the first time ever, you compete in thrilling Boss battles using your own customizable avatar! Play challenging variations such as Classic, Puzzle, and Strategy. Use explosive power-ups, earn money for powerful upgrades, and win special avatar costumes for extra fun.

You can also enjoy four rewarding Casino games like Pachinko and Slots. What’s more, unlock secret codes to use in the mobile and Facebook versions of COLLAPSE! Try this amazing new edition of COLLAPSE! free with the trial version or download the full-unlimited version and reward yourself with fun all over again!”

• Experience the stimulating fun of COLLAPSE! with never-before-seen gameplay
• Enjoy a rewarding new adventure in a majestic land
• Battle challenging Boss monsters using a customizable avatar
• Use power-ups, purchase upgrades and play fun Casino games
• Unlock codes for use in Facebook and mobile versions
• COLLAPSE! with character!

Find out more at Gamehouse.com.

“The excitement and fun of the mega-hit COLLAPSE! returns with an all-new Match 3 adventure and never-before-seen gameplay! Strange monsters have invaded and seized once happy lands, turning flourishing farms into webbed dangers and clear blue oceans into murky bogs. Take on the heroic challenge of freeing and restoring these beautiful lands by playing through invigorating COLLAPSE! levels.

Travel around and COLLAPSE! with character as, for the first time ever, you compete in thrilling Boss battles using your own customizable avatar! Play challenging variations such as Classic, Puzzle, and Strategy. Use explosive power-ups, earn money for powerful upgrades, and win special avatar costumes for extra fun.

You can also enjoy four rewarding Casino games like Pachinko and Slots. What’s more, unlock secret codes to use in the mobile and Facebook versions of COLLAPSE! Try this amazing new edition of COLLAPSE! free with the trial version or download the full-unlimited version and reward yourself with fun all over again!”

• Experience the stimulating fun of COLLAPSE! with never-before-seen gameplay
• Enjoy a rewarding new adventure in a majestic land
• Battle challenging Boss monsters using a customizable avatar
• Use power-ups, purchase upgrades and play fun Casino games
• Unlock codes for use in Facebook and mobile versions
• COLLAPSE! with character!

Find out more at Gamehouse.com.

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Features:

* Help Flo grow her small diner into a 5-star restaurant in this fun, action-oriented and highly addictive game that is sure to bring out the entrepreneur in everyone
* Get customers to their tables- the quicker they are seated the larger the tip
* Take orders, serve food, deliver the bill and clear tables to make room for more customers
* Save your tips for decorations, improvements and even new restaurants
* Dress Flo up in all-new vacation outfits via Flo’s Closet
* Single player story and two-player competitive modes

You can get it now at Amazon:

You can order it now at Amazon:

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Today’s press release:

CHAPEL HILL, NC and KYIV, UKRAINE– October 21, 2009– Merscom announced today that it is developing and publishing On The Street Where You Live, a casual PC/Mac download game based on Mary Higgins Clark’s best-selling novel of the same name. The deal marks Clark’s first foray into computer games.

First published in 2002, On The Street Where You Live tells the story a woman who is haunted by two grisly murders separated by more than a century, yet somehow inextricably linked.

Mary Higgins Clark’s books are world-wide bestsellers. In the U.S. alone, her books have sold over one hundred million copies. She is the author of twenty-eight previous suspense novels. Her first book, a biographical novel about George Washington, was re-issued with the title, Mount Vernon Love Story, in June 2002. Her memoir, Kitchen Privileges, was published by Simon&Schuster in November 2002. Her first children’s book, Ghost Ship, illustrated by Wendell Minor, was published in April 2007 as a Paula Wiseman Book/Simon&Schuster Books for Young Readers. She is co-author, with her daughter Carol Higgins Clark, of five holiday suspense novels Deck the Halls (2000), He Sees You When You’re Sleeping (2001), The Christmas Thief (2004), Santa Cruise (2006), and Dashing through the Snow (2008).

“We strongly feel Mary Higgins Clark is the author who best resonates with the casual game market, in part because they have helped buy nearly 100 million copies of her books,” said Lloyd Melnick, Chief Customer Officer at Merscom.“We view this as an opportunity to build a games franchise with one of the most successful and popular authors.”

Creative Artists Agency brokered the deal on behalf of its clients, Merscom and Clark.

About Merscom

Merscom is a global publisher of mass market social media, computer and video games that distributes games through multiple channels, multiple platforms and multiple revenue models. Merscom’s channels include social media networks (Facebook, MySpace, vKontakte, etc), online sale through major portals worldwide, retail distribution in the US and Europe, and games on Microsoft® Xbox Live® Arcade. Merscom produces entertaining products for gamers of all ages and guarantees all customers a great experience. For more information, visit www.merscom.com.

Get World of Goo at the 2D Boy website now for whatever price you want! You can pay 5 cents, but keep in mind you do want them to be able to make more great games so see if you can afford a little more…

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Run your own nursery and raise baby dragons in Dragon Hatchery, a delightful combination of match-3 puzzling and time management fun!

Once upon a time in a land far away, wise Dragons were the mystical protectors of the land. Where they roamed, life was peaceful until, for some unexplained reason, they became extinct. Wars took over and ravaged the land. That is no more however because you are here to make everything right with your new dragon hatchery!

Hatch baby dragons by matching three or more of their like-colored eggs. Be quick before their columns reach the top or your level is over. After you have hatched enough, it’s time to get to the nursery and raise them so that they can fly off to return peace once again. Build their nests, wash and feed them and make sure they get their vitamins! Buy upgrades to fix up your nursery and restore the habitats one-by-one.

• Experience a delightful combination of Match 3 and time management game play
• Hatch and raise dragons to restore these great protectors
• Build nests, wash and feed them
• Purchase upgrades to fix up the nursery
• Play with your children in the Kids mode

Check it out and download the free trial now at GameHouse!