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Viva Media Launches Crazy Machines Golden Gears on Steam

Get your gears in motion and ignite your ideas with Viva Media’s latest release, Crazy Machines Golden Gears! The Minneapolis-based game publisher announces the release of Crazy Machines Golden Gears on PC. Fans of the creative physics-based puzzle game will not be disappointed. The game boasts gorgeous graphics and effects that are brought to life with incredible clarity on the big screen. After the solid success on iPads, iPhones and Android devices, a new PC version was added to help meet the rapidly growing demand for the Rube Goldberg-style puzzle game. Additional Mac and Linux platform options will launch later this spring.

Now gamers with PCs can join in the fun challenges of playing Crazy Machines Golden Gears. Players create, construct, invent, ignite, destroy and share their own mechanical contraptions with the goal of achieving genius status: winning three stars and earning Golden Gears.

Gear heads will appreciate the newest version of the award-winning computer game for the challenge levels, and the opportunity to explore the vast number of puzzles created by a growing community — more than 4,800 puzzles and counting. Fast physics action dazzles like never before from visuals of fire, lasers, explosions, robots, gears and chain reactions. With dynamic shadows and enhanced booms, experiments go into motion with spell-binding results from variables, including air pressure, electricity, gravity and particle effects.

Crazy Machines Golden Gears for PC is available in English and German for US$9.99. The game was developed by Fakt and is published by Viva Media. Future releases of Crazy Machines Golden Gears for Mac and Linux are scheduled for late April.

About Viva Media: Viva Media, founded in 1999, publishes, produces and develops high quality games for a variety of platforms, including PC, Android, iOS and other mobile devices. The Minneapolis-based company publishes a dazzling array of interactive computer games — all to the highest standards. With more than150 games, the company’s collection has garnered more than 100 awards for excellence in interactive publishing. For information, please visit www.viva-media.com or www.crazymachinesgoldengears.com.

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John Breeden II

As a journalist John has covered everything from rural town meetings to the U.S. Congress and even done time as a crime reporter and photographer.|His first venture into writing about the game industry came in the form of a computer column called "On the Chip Side," which grew to have over 1 million circulation and was published in newspapers in several states. From there he did several "ask the computer guy" columns in magazines such as Up Front! in New Mexico and Who Cares? in Washington D.C. When the Internet started to become popular, he began writing guided Web tours for the newly launched Washington Post online section as well as reviews for the weekend section of the paper, something he still does from time to time. His experience in trade publications came as a writer and reviewer for Government Computer News. As the editor of GiN, he demands strict editorial standards from all the writers and reviewers. Breeden feels the industry needs a weekly, reliable trade publication covering the games industry and works tirelessly to accomplish that goal.