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Today, Pogo is having a sale on their Pogo Originals downloadable games for $9.95, instead of the usual $19.95. This includes Pogo To Go games and also the Pogo downloadable games that have badges and ranks too: Word Whomp Underground, Way To Go! Bowling, PICTUREKA! MUSEUM MAYHEM, Diner Dash® Family Style™, OPERATION MANIA, Word Riot™ Deluxe, Tri-Peaks 2 Quest for the Ruby Ring, The Poppit! Show, Lottso! Deluxe, and Mahjong Garden Deluxe.

Also, if solitaire is your thing, check out the POGO™ Pack, which includes Tri-Peaks 2 & Great Escapes Solitaire both for $9.95.

Happy Father’s Day!

As part of a promotion that ends 6/16, Pogo will give you a free copy of Casino Island To Go when you purchase any other game from their site (this includes the five deluxe games that award badges and mini items: Lottso Deluxe, Word Riot Deluxe, Mahjong Garden Deluxe, The Poppit Show, and Tri-Peaks 2: Quest for the Ruby Ring). Your registration code for Casino Island will be sent to you on 6/17.

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.

Pogo is having a Memorial Weekend sale on downloadable games $19.95 and higher. You can get 30% off if you use the code memorial08 at checkout. Even better, this discount applies to all of our favorite deluxe games: Word Riot, Tri-Peaks 2 Quest for the Ruby Ring, Mahjong Garden Deluxe, Lottso Deluxe, and The Poppit Show.

We’re not talking about Mini Goodies for Word Riot Deluxe (yet!) but goodies in the form of desktop wallpapers and iron-on transfers for your very own Word Riot t-shirt! If you’ve been too busy playing Word Riot to stop and browse the Pogo site, you can pick them up on this page and check out some more details about the sweepstakes for $400.

We know we weren’t the only ones who noticed how (ahem) masculine Amber is! *laugh*

Finally, Word Riot Deluxe is available for download!

As you’re learning to play, take note of any special hints or tips you come up with and submit them to us via email — we’ll be putting together our usual hints and tips post in about a week.

Update: According to this page, Word Riot Deluxe will be available on Monday, April 28th. At that time you will be able to download and play the free demo (and enter into a sweepstakes for $400).

Any appearance of Word Riot Deluxe pages on Pogo’s public site was a total goof. Apparently, the game wasn’t due out until next Tuesday Monday*.

Pogo is still testing it in small groups (there was a group of 14 testing Classic mode games earlier today and a slightly smaller group playing in Rally mode). This explains why you cannot download the game from the Pogo site yet. Until further notice, it’s pretty safe to assume Word Riot will be released next Tuesday (4/29) Monday (4/28)*.

Whatever you do, DO NOT try to purchase the game yet — never mind the fact that you should always try before you buy, Oberon Media isn’t ready to distribute your license key(s) (although they’ll be happy to charge you numerous times for the transaction). Don’t say we didn’t warn you!

* Update: According to this page, Word Riot Deluxe will be available on Monday, April 28th. At that time you will be able to download and play the free demo (and enter into a sweepstakes for $400).

In addition to the April Mix-n-Match challenges, Golf Solitaire was released today. The pages for Word Riot Deluxe are up and in place, but the game file isn’t there yet — when it shows up, it will be on this page. We’ll update this post when the file arrives and you can play Word Riot Deluxe later today.

Update: the file still isn’t there, but we know WRD was at some point supposed to be out today; there’s a sweepstakes listed on the page that states “from April 22…”

Update 2: You are going to have to wait until next Tuesday. Sigh.