While everyone was enjoying their winter holidays, game developers had their sleeves up busy with creating new amazing titles for us to have fun. The first week of January have already brought us some games definitely worth attention, and I'd like to tell you about some of them.

Year 2009 has come, and all of us have come back to our normal lives after all the holidays (at least I hope you have), so it's high time to review the best games of the year that has passed and retrieve in our memory all the best moments of our gaming life in 2008. In order to do this we have been running a survey at GameMile asking you what you consider the best titles released last year. Today I would like to analyze the results and remind you the best of the best.

While last week we were recalling Christmas games tat were presented by developers a year ago, this week brought us the first holiday specials, this time from Big Fish Games. Let's see what these largest portal has prepared for us for the winter fun.

As December days pass one by one and Christmas comes closer, we start to wait for the holiday gifts game developers have prepared to us. Every year lots of Christmas-themed games come out, giving us the holiday spirit even before the holiday season starts. Today, while the shower of Christmas games hasn't begun yet, I'd like to remind you of the great games that were released these days a year ago.

Not long ago, on October 22-24, Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, saw a large crowd of people, all smiling and playing yo-yos. Adult and respectably looking, they were discussing games, even online games, and seemed to be completely happy with their pastime. What was it? - you will ask. Nothing extraordinary, just the next conference of the Casual Games Association - Casual Connect Kyiv 2008, one of three largest forums of the casual games industry. Want to know more?

Here it comes, the scariest night in the whole year! Ghosts, banshees, witches and pumpkins reign - it's their night! I guess many of you have already prepared for the party and got your costume trimmed. But as a last minute stroke for your holiday, let me make a survey of spooky and scary games offered to us by game developers these days, as there is quite a selection and you will surely find something to your liking.