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Ave, all!

Your favourite online multiplayer game, Empire has been improved and bettered for your total social gaming experience.

With over 300 unique quest and new territories to explore, this improved version of Empire is all out to make you a happy and proud Emperor.

So gather around your knights, built your army and march ahead to conquer forbidden and uncharted territories.

March on!

Empire

Hey there TGB gamers,

TheGameBox brings to you the world of Poker with its newest Goodgame Poker game. So, raise the stakes, bluff with the best and look good while you do it!

Buy exclusive items, send gifts to your buddies and raise your rankings. True Texas Hold’em rules with a new twist . Stack up your bounty, hit a Royal Flush and go Bing Blang Blaow.

And if you are busted once, don’t be disheartened, because as they say in Poker, “Chip and a chair, partner”. You can come back to win a poker tournament even with one chip.

What are you waiting for? Its cards in the air, fellas. Take your seats at the table. Shuffle and deal…

This is going to be one hell of a fight to the finish. Terrorists, Counter-terrorists, Zombies – they’ve all assembled and taken their positions in alleys with their guns loaded, their bombs ticking away and their daggers sharpened. One wrong move, and boy! You pay with your god damn life.

TheGameBox is proud to bring Critical Strike Portable, a Cross-platform 3D FPS MMO (3 Dimensional, first person shooter, massively multiplayer online) game.  Here’s a quick guide to help you get on with the game:

CRITICAL STRIKE PORTABLE – MODES:

Classic Mode:

It’s your team versus the opponent’s.  Whichever team wipes out the opponent’s team, wins hands down.

There’s another way to win – play CTs (counter-terrorists), rescue all hostages and bring them to safety.  OR You can play Ts (terrorists) and plant bombs. The plus side in this is that you win as long as the bomb is still active; even if you remain the single living member in your team.

Team Death Match:

If you’re a casual player who just wants to get into action and fight, then this one will suit you best. Join a team and eliminate members of the opponent’s.

Zombie Mode:

A player gets selected to become a zombie so that he can infect the others. He starts off with 2,000 HP and regenerates some more to infect the rest rapidly for a short period of time. On infecting another, he turns the other player into a zombie too!

If you’re playing a human, you have but one objective: ELIMINATE ZOMBIES.

Zombie Match:

This mode is like Team Death Match. However, zombies are added to both teams. They will aid you in fight.

Survival Mode:

This mode assumes every player who enters a game as a Counter Terrorist. Survive as long as you can and fight zombies, NPC terrorists and kamikazes.

Death Match:

Fight every player who enters the game. This mode has no team system.

Juggernaut:

The Juggernaut has extra health and speed. The host is the first juggernaut by default. Everybody must try and kill the Juggernaut – the person who succeeds, becomes the new Juggernaut.

CRITICAL STRIKE PORTABLE – CONTROLS:

Move around using ‘WASD’ or arrow keys; to walk fast, press Shift + arrow key

To crouch, use ‘X’

To jump, press Space bar

To shoot, left-click

For quick-stab, (knife only) left-click

For fatal-stab (knife only) right-click

For scope sniper rifle, right-click

To reload, use ‘R’

To select primary weapon, press ’1′

To select pistol, press ’2′

To select knife, press ’3′

To select grenades, press ’4′

To select bomb, press ’5′

Scroll mouse for quick selection

To plant bomb, hold down left-click

To deactivate bomb, hold down ‘E’

To heal player, hold down ‘E’

To open door, use ‘E’

To rescue hostage, use ‘E’

To chat, press ‘Y’ and type your message. ‘Enter’ to send.

To go to weapon shop, use ‘B’

To drop gun, use ‘G’

To toggle flashlight, use ‘F’

To visit Menu, use ‘M’

To spray clan tag, use ‘T’

CRITICAL STRIKE PORTABLE – WEAPONS

Remember: Each gun comes with a fixed magazine. If it’s a looted property, it comes with 2 magazines. If you have purchased it, it has 4 magazines. If you buy ammo for it, it has 4 magazines.

Knife

Melee:  Used to kill an enemy within a few hits.

Price: Free
Range: Short

Damage (quick): 60
Damage (fatal): 120

Desert Eagle

Pistol: Used as a secondary weapon.

Price: Free
Range: Short to midrange.

Damage (body): 36
Damage (hand/leg): 25

AK47 and M4A1

Assault Rifles:  Fully automatic weapons used in almost any map.

Price: 300
Range: Midrange

Damage (body): 23
Damage (hand/leg): 16

AWP

Sniper: Manual fire weapon for long-distance use only.

Price: 600
Range: Long

Damage (body): 110
Damage (hand/leg): 44

XM1014

Shotgun: Manual fire weapon spraying bullets at short range only.

Price: 500
Range: Short

Damage (body): 15 × 6

Grenade

Explosive Grenade: Wide-blast radius mostly used to help penetrate walls.

Price: 50

Damage: Up to 70

Flash Grenade

Stun Grenade: Used to only blind enemies. Effect lasts depending upon type of hit.

Price: 20

Damage: 0

Smoke Grenade

Gas Grenade: Used to block a person’s field of view using smoke.

Price: 20

Damage: 0

CRITICAL STRIKE PORTABLE – STRATEGIES

Camping

This a basic strategy and it’s the easiest to learn. Find a good hiding spot and shoot at your enemy!

Zig-zagging

Move left and right as you fire back at your enemy. If you don’t have a good weapon on you, zig-zag your way to a hiding spot.

Assassinate

Attack your enemy from behind. But use this strategy at your own risk!

Injury Spying

A black dot on your radar indicates that one of your team mates has been injured. This helps to gauge where your enemy might be at.

Ghostly Spying

Even if you’re dead, you can spy on other players… even if they’re hiding. Ambush them as soon as you respawn!

Third-Person Spying

The most effective strategy! Press ‘C’ and change to third-person point of view. You can look around without having to worry about being spotted. Eventually an enemy comes around and you can attack!

Secret Places

Hide from a less used spot and attack enemies from there. Note that these places are extremely risky!

Camouflage

You can use a skin that resembles colors from the map. Click on the ‘Account’ button on the top-right. Click on ‘View Profile’ and select ‘Choose CT/T skin.’ This does not work if your entire body is covered.

Aerial Ambush

If you’re at an elevated spot, are unable to shoot at your enemy and might want to risk attacking – jump down and attack from behind. Beware! You might lose some of your HP depending on the height you jump from.

Blind Wall Shooting

If an enemy is hiding behind a wall and you are unable to see him, shoot at the wall with an estimate of where the enemy is hiding. The enemy will take the damage and not know who the attacker is. However, for this strategy to work, shooting through walls must be enabled and the wall ought to not be too thick.

Deception

Once you kill someone, wait for a few seconds for the camera to go away. Move to a camping spot nearby and then ambush your enemy!

See you there!

Can you hear the growls? Can you smell the stale blood? Did you just hear that scratching sound on your door…?

The zombies have taken over and we’re not one to cow down. Pull them out ammos and fire into the night away. Leave no Zombie undead.

TheGameBox presents thrilling Zombie Games all this week. We have TWO brand new games – Zombie Die Hard and Zombie Destruction along with the bloodcurdling Dead Zed, Bloody Sunset and many more!

There! Sounds like a deadly gang is knocking your door down. Are you still reading this?

Greetings from Mexico!

We first made some sandwiches and then some pizzas, and now it’s time to go further west. At TheGameBox, we’re now assisting the famous Papa Louie at his deli, Papa’s  Taco Mia.

Start your day early and attend to all kinds of customers – some patient, some picky, some who might be food critics! Take down their order one by one.

Orders vary depending upon the hardness of the taco shell; some might even ask for a pita shell! A customer might ask for pork, chicken or beans… and some guacamole, maybe. Add to that some fiery hot or sauce a tame mayo and your taco for that customer is ready. Next up, grilling the meat.

Grill the meats as ordered for the customers. Remember, every kind of meat takes different time to cook. Chicken must be diced as soon as the meter reaches the green line; pork must be flipped and so on. But don’t worry, the tutorial at the beginning and the guides through the game will make your time and experience at the grill a fun job!

Build your taco according to the order. As you progress, you will win different kinds of ingredients, sauces and shells.

And now for the customer’s judgement. Your taco will be judged on the time taken to collect the order, the quality of the meat grilled and the final build. If your customer is happy, he will tip you accordingly.

Earn as many tips as you can, so you can so you can buy different goodies for your store.

Have fun as you cook, serve and make money!

See you there!

As India steps into its 66 year of independence, it’s time to stop and rewind. Our people left behind all thoughts of class, creed, colour, race and sect and fought as one with the only aim in mind – freedom from the British rule. The fight lasted over a 100 years… it started small, scaled up and the British were finally driven out.

TheGameBox presents India’s Freedom Story – a game that gives a glimpse into the trials and tribulations of our freedom struggle.

Ten steps to independence

Play 10 different games, each lasting a few seconds. Relive the freedom struggle.

See you there! Jai hind!

A few days ago, Mumbai witnessed a train collision on one of its busiest railway lines. The city considers its local trains as its ‘lifeline’, and having largely depending on it for transport, and an incident of this kind begs an insight into its traffic control.

Avoid train collision... save precious lives!

TheGameBox presents Mumbai Local, a game that puts you in the shoes of a traffic control expert. Decide which train moves ahead and which other stops. Change tracks, stop and start at the click of a mouse… and in the process, get a virtual experience of what it is to be in control of something SO important to an entire city!

Click on the green boxes to stop the train and red boxes to start. Click on the blue box to change track.

See you at the platform!

Cheers!

The most anticipated festival of the first-half is here! Holi or the Festival of Colours is celebrated tomorrow and we can’t wait to smear our friends’ and family’s faces with colours and have ourselves drenched in water! It’s another thing that some of us wait for the festival only to be able to eat the delicious gujiyas and puran polis or polish off bhaang till the last sip. A good number of people want nothing but a holiday to chill at home… whatever your reason is, it’s a great excuse in the middle of the week.

It's a colour riot!

We at TheGameBox too are not far behind. Watch out for some of our Holi special games… yes, yes, we have them waiting in the wings for you! It’s going to be so much, watch this space!

Have a safe Holi, you guys! Play only with colour good for your skin and use water sparingly!

Cheers!

TGB Buddies!!

We’re one year old!!! From sweating it out in the game studio to holding our breaths for your response to our games… it’s been one fun-filled year for us. And a helluva ride!

Check out our brand new game – TheGameBox Jump! It’s almost metaphoric of us collecting one game after another to build our box of over 600 games over the past 12 months! Game icons bear characters from different popular games such as Rajni Minds It,  Adreno Rider (1 and 2), Ready – The Official Game, and more. Jump over icons as you collect them, and don’t forget the boosts on the way!

TheGameBox Jump - Our one-year-special game!

Move mouse to navigate. Collect icons, definitely the booster icons.

Cheers!

Hey there, TGB Buddies!

Here’s presenting a bunch of downloadable games, ranging from Strategy to Arcade to Sports to Hidden Object Games, only on TheGameBox for you to download and play at leisure. We have some popular titles such as Peggle, Chicken Rush, Bejewelled and Plats versus Zombies!

Typer Shark - Deluxe: The typing tutor with teeth!

Peggle Deluxe: Challenging yet fun!

Check out our page for more games and FAQs.