Good news — we’ve got a release date for Pictureka Museum Mayhem! According to this Pictureka marketing page, the game will be released in approximately six and a half days (at the time of this post). So, look for it on November 24!
In the meantime, you can visit that page daily through November 23 for 2,000 free tokens each day. (There’s a similar promotion for the UK site, but unfortunately you can only get tokens from one, not both sites.)
Here are some screenshots of Pictureka Museum Mayhem to whet your appetite and (maybe) tide you over until the game is released:
We’re back! On the very first day of our vacation, our darling Badge Fairy Lura came down with an awful sore throat and fever that’s making her cranky and sleepy and generally difficult. Please bear with us as she convalesces.
In other news, while we were gone:
Casual President resigns, EA cuts their Casual Division
President of the EA Casual Division Kathy Vrabeck resigned and shortly thereafter EA announced a reorganization that basically merges the Casual division with the Sims division, as well as merges in their Hasbro partnership. The most interesting thing (for us) about this is that EA is seemingly saying that “casual gamers” don’t exist, that the term “casual gamer” in fact applies to a much more diverse set of gamers, hardcore and non-hardcore alike.
New mini items in the Mini Mall
Pogo has given us another great release of mini items in the Mini Mall, including exotic pets (isn’t that peacock gorgeous?) and Yahtzee items. In addition to some other Autumnal items, there are a few new pieces of clothing to keep your Mini warm as the weather begins to turn to downright chilly in most of the nation.
Pictureka can be added to favorites
You can add Pictureka to your favorites, but you can’t yet download and/or play it. You know where to look for the latest news, of course…right here at BadgeHungry. We wouldn’t keep any secrets from you.
We only posted US answers
You’d think the world was coming to a nuclear end with the amount of email we received about the answers we had (or hadn’t) pre-posted for Trivial Pursuit Daily 20. For the three days we were gone, we got the US answers in advance, but not the UK answers. We decided to post the US answers and list that the UK answers would be posted soon — better half than none at all, right? Well, we received so much email protesting the missing answers we probably can’t respond to all of you, but the UK answers have been back-posted now. You may now remove your foil-lined helmets and come out from your bomb shelters — everything is right with the world (except maybe Badge Fairy’s darned sore throat)!
Dream Vacation Sweepstakes
Play Monopoly from November 7-13 for a chance to win some great prizes. One winner will win the “Dream Vacation”, consisting of two $500 Hyatt gift cards and one $1500 American Airlines Gift Card. Three winners will receive $300 and the Monopoly Here & Now board game. Each time you load the game you’ll be entered to win, so get playing (or, um, loading).
Pogo Bowl is now Turkey Bowl!
Every year, Pogo replaces the pins in Pogo Bowl with gobbling turkeys. It’s quite a sight to see, so go check it out!
We know from various press releases and internet sales sites that Pictureka Museum Mayhem is scheduled to be released on November 19th (which means a Pogo release of November 18th and a day for chaos to ensue and be resolved). In the meantime, here’s a page from Pogo to tide you over; it announces Pictureka is coming soon and shows us some more details.
If you’re like us and just can’t wait to play Pictureka, here’s a sneak peek at the How to Play for the game. In addition, Hasbro has had a demo of the game on their web site for a while; it will give you a rough idea of how the game will be played.
Of course, Pogo’s version is going to far surpass this one with its badges, ranks, team play, and super-cool mini items!
We keep an eye on all things Pogo-related here at BadgeHungry and of note today is a press release about Electronic Arts’ new studio in Austin, Texas. Pogo Austin will join EA’s Bioware team and create the Hasbro titles, the first of which will be Pictureka! Museum Mayhem.
The game will be released for download from Pogo in November and will cost $19.99. In addition, the press release text indicates that it may be a time management game (”the frantic director”), but we’re hoping it will (also?) have game play reminiscent of a hidden object game.
The first title to be released from Pogo Austin is PICTUREKA! MUSEUM MAYHEM. This quirky seek and find game is based on the Hasbro game PICTUREKA! which debuted in 2007 and launched globally in 2008. In the digital version, a player becomes the new curator for a museum and investigates some odd things that are afoot. Someone has been breaking in and re-arranging the exhibits. The frantic director needs the player to restore items to their proper location and catch the person responsible. The game is set to launch online in November at Pogo.com for $19.95 (US) and £11.95 (UK); it will be available at retail in early winter.
The full press release is available here.
We’ve gotten some more information since our last post on Pictureka; details have surfaced about the game’s name, type, and badge requirements.
The game will be a deluxe, downloadable game and will probably cost $19.99 like the rest. Its name, at least so far, will be Pictureka Museum Mayhem. You’ll get one badge just for playing (even on a free trial):
Dinomite Detective Badge
The next five badges you’ll get will be awarded at ranks 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50:
Rank 10 - Living Fantasy Badge
Rank 20 - Ocean Protector Badge
Rank 30 - Big Time Slugger
Rank 40 - So Spaced Out! Badge
Rank 50 - Heroic Hound Badge
The mini items associated with this game are still works in progress, but we’ll let you have a sneak peek as soon as we get our hands on them!
Here are the badges that will be available from Pictureka (which may or may not still be referred to as Pictureka Museum now):
This one appears to be slightly different than the others, so it might be a special or secret badge:
Here are a few things of note that we haven’t had time to cover in a single post this week:
The mini pets are on their way! Pogo’s artists have created two new backgrounds — a pet shop and a dog park.
The Flawless Victory badge in Golf Solitaire is now being awarded.
There were a lot of problems with this week’s patch for Word Riot Deluxe (especially for Windows Vista users). Some Vista users have had luck by running it as administrator, but others have not been so lucky. If you are having problems playing Word Riot after the latest update patch this week, we suggest you contact Oberon directly (support at Pogo will just tell you to contact Oberon, anyway).
The badge is now being properly awarded for the 8th Mix-n-Match album completion. It’s called “Jumpin’ for Joy”. It shows up in your Special Edition album and you will be credited 5,000 tokens. WTG Pogo.
Those of you who wanted to know what it was, Poker Pop is now available for online play.
If you haven’t taken advantage of it yet, we added a new token offer for 3,000 tokens to our free Pogo tokens page. Yay for free tokens!
Pogo is starting to work on the upcoming Hasbro releases Operation and Pictureka. Operation Deluxe will be a downloadable game with badges, ranks, and probably mini items. Pictureka may be called Pictureka Museum and if you’ve never played this fun game, you can check out a game demo off this page.
According to a press release today, Hasbro and Electronic Arts Casual Gaming have teamed up to provide a bunch of games for EA’s Pogo.com collection. Yahtzee for online play is scheduled to be released in Summer of this year, and Monopoly and Trivial Pursuit are scheduled for Fall. There’s no word yet whether or not these will be available to everyone or just Club Pogo members.
Yahtzee will offer two ways to play: team/collaborative and competitive. The rooms will allow up to 20 people per room.
Monopoly will be the Here and Now: World Edition. You’ll be able to play alone or play against up to three other players online. The Here and Now edition of Monopoly is a modern makeover of the classic Monopoly board game where you can buy and sell destinations from around the world as you play to win it all.
Not much information is included about the version of Trivial Pursuit for Pogo, but we found this sentence interesting: “Answer the trivia questions correctly and earn points towards your wedges in pursuit of completing your pie collection by the end of the week.” This could be a daily quickie like Word Search Daily, perhaps?
Also mentioned in the press release are Operation and Pictureka, which are described in such a way that we believe they will be Deluxe-style games.
