Big Fish Games is a game website offering a large variety of downloadable casual games for $6.99. Members of the Big Fish Game Club can download a toolbar to receive coupon codes for a different game each day for only $2.99. Coupon codes may also be periodically available at sites such as Retail Me Not and Coupon Cabin. BigFishGames.com also offers free online games and free one-hour trials for downloadable games.
Big Fish Games provides internet media software and casual game content through its popular website. Most of the games featured on the Big Fish Games site can be played free as trial versions, while the full versions of the games are available for varying fees. The company, founded in 2002 by Paul Thelen, employs more than 400 people, primarily at its Seattle, Washington headquarters. The company's European headquarters is located in Cork, Ireland. The company has another office in Vancouver, British Columbia.http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008069607_brier24.html Thelen was formerly an executive for RealNetworks, helping launching their RealArcade game service.http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=19554
Big Fish Games is currently the world's largest site for downloadable games. Every day, more than 1.5 million games are downloaded from the portal. The company was launched by Thelen as a bootstrapped startup in 2002 from only $10,000 while Thelen was suffering from a severe illness.http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2005/09/12/focus4.html Thelen grew the company rapidly, with the company securing $8.7 million in angel funding in 2005, and an additional round of investments totalling $83.6 million in 2008.http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/12/paidcontent/main4443208.shtml
Big Fish Games is involved in the distribution of downloadable casual games, ad supported free online web browser games and a social networking site which allows members to interact while playing games and to discuss their experiences. The company began as a game development studio. Early titles included Mahjong Towers, Top Ten Solitaire, and Word Wizard.http://www.adventureclassicgaming.com/index.php/site/interviews/537/ The site also publishes several titles developed by other companies including Forgotten Riddles, Fish Tycoon, Virtual Villagers, Grimm's Hatchery and Master of Defense.
Big Fish Games Studios has also developed many successful titles on its own and published them through the Big Fish Games portal. Some include the Mystery Case Files series, the Azada series, the Hidden Expedition series, Mystic Inn, Atlantis Sky Patrol, Fairway Solitaire, Drawn: The Painted Tower and Mystery in London.
Big Fish Games Coupon Policy
BigFishGames.com offers a Game Club. For a monthly fee of $6.99 you receive a credit for one game, and each additional game costs $6.99. After signing up you will be charged the $6.99 each month and receive another game credit. Membership can be canceled online at any time. Credits never expire and can be gifted to family or friends.http://bigfishgames.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/907/c/2986/r_id/109674
Big Fish Games offers a daily deal for Game Club members for a different game each day at the price of $2.99. Users must download the Big Fish Games Toolbar and will receive a coupon code through the toolbar that they will be able to redeem on the site for the discount.If you are not currently a member of the Game Club, using a Daily Deal coupon will start or reactivate your Big Fish Game Club membership.http://bigfishgames.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/902/c/2986/r_id/109674
Empress of the Deep: The Darkest Secret (Deactivating the Orbs Solution)
This video provides a walkthrough showing players one way to solve a problem in "Empress of the Deep: The Darkest Secret". This step-by-step tutorial shows the process of the Deactivating the Orbs solution. "Empress of the Deep: The Darkest Secret" is one of the most popular games currently on the Big Fish Games downloadable games and playable online games portal.
Island Realms
In this video uploaded via YouTube viewers will see the game Island Realms being played. It shows the main menu, and some of the things that the players will get to do while playing this game. It also shows how to do a couple different things throughout the realm.