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A quick burst of updates for you all on a number of games.

First up is My Pet Dinosaur, and the exciting news that it has now stomped, sniffed and chased its way into the hearts of enough people to make the top 5 in the Kids PC charts! As a games developer, we’re shallow and money driven enough to be excited by this because it means that a) You love us and; b) It’s flying off the shelves. Either way, thanks! If you want to know more about My Pet Dino, check out the video on the bottom right, or go to that YouTube place and look for “markhoneyslug” for this vid, and more…

Next up is the exciting news that the marvellous website appsmile.com and Inspired Magazine have nominated Ric Rococo: International Art Thief as one of the must-have iPhone platform games exhibiting amazing design. This is a genuine honour and we are truly humbled to know that the work Nat, Ricky and art conduit Adam put into the design has paid off critically. To check out the 10 games, go to here . Thanks guys. Thuys.

Finally, Kahoots has been proving quite popular and it’s continuing to review very well, in fact, so well that we got our first 100% score in UK Official PlayStation Magazine. This has also meant that we’re faring rather well on the all important Metacritic site with an average score of 82% (which is pretty high on there) and with the US reviews to come, hooray! Go to our Kahoots site to check the reviews out!

Oh goody! Our DS devkit has turned up (intrigue!)

Just shy of 400 years ago, tired of the feral nature of politics and religion in England, a group of people set sail from Plymouth looking for a more peaceful and free existence away from the chaos of Europe. As luck would have it, they landed in a place also called Plymouth in the US. How handy!

In the years since, North America can point the finger at the UK for introducing many less welcome things to their culture, Benny Hill and Sting for instance. So we feel we owe our chums across the pond something for the years of low rent smut in a beret and sub-standard Jazz from a Geordie teacher.

So just in time for Thanksgiving (well in the US anyway, sorry we missed your celebration Canada!), Kahoots arrives on the shores of North America. Not as the pilgrims did, in a ship called the Mayflower, but as a series of lines of code kicked into shape by us and then appearing as a downloadable game on the North American PlayStation Store.

Our critically acclaimed 50 level puzzle game is now available for less than a Fin, and just in time for Thanksgiving! If you want to read what they’re getting so excited about go to our re-revamped Kahoots website to see three pages of unmitigated praise.

And so with the exclusivity period over, we say “Hello!” to the 30,000 or so new Orange UK iPhoners with a limited time price drop for Ric Rococo.

For the first few days of the new happy-to-wait-until-my-current-operator-gets-it brigade, we’re slashing the price of Ric Rococo: International Art Thief so that iPhone users, old and new, can indulge in ten levels of skulking through art galleries pinching classic works of art for the daylight robbery price of £0.59/€0.79/$0.99.

Hurry, you only have a few days before the price returns from whence it came.

That’s right. If you’re the sort of person who considers traditional pets as staid and uninteresting and you want a pet that is playful and terrifying in equal measure, then My Pet Dinosaur is absolutely bob-on for you.

My Pet Dino gives you the chance to have the ultimate pet – forget Battlecat or Dogmeat – a Dinosaur! Raise it from an egg to an adult, keep it fed, washed and happy to help it thrive.

There are tons of things to do with your pet dino, there are toys to play with, fellow dino chums to meet and compete with in one of the challenge modes. You can hunt for treasure and turnips (obviously), stomp buildings, trees and other animals (next to them, not on them naturally, we’re not monsters), race against your buddies in the Dino speedway, compete to catch the most butterflies (again, obviously). There are twelve locations for your dino to discover.

Best of all, your dino can hunt for buried treasure and, as they become more skillful, catch the presents floating by on balloons! These prezzies will allow you to dress up your dinos in all sorts of ace gear, and there’s tons to collect!

You still want more? Well there are a load of achievements to, umm achieve including the rather intriguing challenge of doing 100 poos (in the game, naturally, we’re not advocating evacuating your bowels 100 times to unlock something in the game, we certainly wouldn’t have got a 3+ PEGI rating then).

My Pet Dinosaur is out today for PC, and stuffed with things to do for the bargain price of £4.99, making it an ideal christmas stocking filler if you are looking for a vitrual pet game with a bit of a unique slant to it. You can purchase it from Game and other major retailers or online at here.

The time is very close now to the release of My Pet Dinosaur on PC. We’re really excited about the launch because it’s our game in a proper box that you’ll be able to buy from a real physical store and everything.

Electronic releases are ace, like, but it’s hard not to get giddy about having a game in a box with the Honeyslug logo on it. You can go into a store, pick it up and show it to random people for as long as it takes for the security staff to come over and ask you politely to leave.

Look out for more information on My Pet Dino later in the week.

In other release-date-for-Kahoots-on-PSP-in-other-territories news, Thursday the 5th of November will see the release of our 50 level puzzler in Korea (and probably elsewhere, but not Japan yet), and fingers crossed the US will get their Pegbeast fill in time for Thanksgiving. Again, more news later this week.

Finally, more new ace reviews of Kahoots are up on the news pages on Save the Kahoots