Games House

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Gamehouse Games Gamehouse Studios is a Seattle, WA based game company founded in 1998 by 2 former Microsoft multimedia division guys Garr Godfrey and Ben Exworthy. The company was acquired by Real Networks in January of 2004 and remains a leader in downloadable casual games. Gamehouse's intitial projects consisted of secure casino games but then extended in scope. Their big hit Super Collapse, helped launch the popularity of downloadable games about the same time PopCap's Bejeweled was scorching the Internet. Gamehouse Games Site Overview: Gamehouse offers a nice blend of web based games and downloads. Most of the games are casual in nature including match 3 hits like Super Collapse and Bounce Out to stellar word games like Super Text Twist and Super Wild Wild Words. Gamehouse is also currently extending its reach into the mobile phone games field by adapting some of its games to that format. The Gamehouse site offers incentives for registered users like free versions of some of its older games. Registered users also get access to some of the more premium and recently released web games. Gamehouse games most popular titles that were created by them include Super Collapse 2, Bounce Out, Text Twist, Super MahJong Solitaire, Gamehouse Solitaire volumes 1-3, and many varieties of Jigsaw Puzzle games. They also offer games on their site from partners that include hits like Jewel Quest, Big Kahuna Reef, Bejeweled 2, and more. Bottom Line: Gamehouse is a fantastic site for people interested in casual games and is one of the best in this genre. It offers more choices than PopCap and through its new relationship with Real Networks, is adding new games all the time. The site is easy to use, colorful, full of options, and it sure to please any casual game fan. If you want action games, this is the wrong place to look but Gamehouse is, in fact, perfectly OK with that.