- Turning And Round Again into a proper universal binary is taking a bit longer than planned, mostly because we're doing it blindly without an Intel Mac to test on, but we're getting there...

Anyway, we're really curious - anyone from Portugal or Brazil wants to enlighten us to why we just got a good month's worth of Mer-my-Maid downloads in one single day?

- This first year netted us 50.000 downloads with next to no advertising, which must count as a good a start as any.

The next year should be interesting too with Johnny shaping up to be released in the not very distant future and an update to And Round Again more or less ready to go.

Cake!

- Another update to Archaist. Blame Nippon Ichi for this one not appearing before Christmas as it was supposed to. This time the emphasis is on low vision accessibility, with major improvements to the graphics filters and the spoken interface. There is also a critical bug fix for the reduced key controls. If you use any of these features you will definitely want this update, otherwise you might as well wait for the next and probably final.

- "Surprises usually fall into one of two categories: There are the nice surprises like when you discover your new girlfriend has an identical twin sister and they always share everything; and, unfortunately, there are the not so nice ones like finding your wife in bed with an entire rugby team. Thankfully this game is the former." - TCK

Sadly The Caffeine Kid belongs to a clear minority - the competition judges that could run Archaist sans patch. I'm sure a lot of swearing could be done over that, but I'm not really in the mood for swearing, because... we got Barrie's spot price! That's such an honour I'm still beaming!

Going back to twin sisters; Archaist for Mac is out, as is a significantly updated Windows version. Get them both today!

- Euchmich finally receives its long-awaited update. Version 1.2 is here and highlights include:

• four difficulty levels - now fear the Euchmain
  
• maps and tags let you conquer the world with information
  
• new scoring system is not quite as pointless as before
  
• improved combat AI gets brains all over the place

There's also plenty of other fixes and updates to make for a more solid and longer lasting game.