Game du Jour is a "One Deal a Day" website for casual PC games. Every day of the week, GameDuJour.com sells one downloadable game at a steep discount.

We aim to publish reviews at least one day before the game goes on sale at GameDuJour.com, so please check back regularly. But we will admit, as much as we love casual games here at Blogcritics, we won't be able to get to every title.

This Week's Deals
2/12/2007 The Time-Portal — 50% discount
2/13/2007 Deep Ball Defender — 45% discount
2/14/2007 Christmas Gems — 50% discount
2/15/2007 Sudoku Works — 50% discount
2/16/2007 Smileys — 40% discount
2/17/2006 Bubble Blitz — 50% discount
2/18/2007 Bullet Candy — 50% discount

The Time-Portal
In the darkest corner of your attic you find a letter from your long lost uncle. He explains to you that he has been kidnapped by a jealous scientist because he succeeded in inventing a time-machine.

Your uncle has left you photos with hidden clues that show you the way to the time-machine. It is your task to reveal the clues, find the machine and rescue your uncle.

The photos he gave you have mistakes. Find the mistakes in the photos to see which letters on their back are leading to the code. Complete the code to find the next place to go to. Help your uncle!

Deep Ball Defender
Writer: Jason "Njiska" Westhaver

Hands down this game is the best ball breaker since Arkanoid. With over 100 levels, dozens of crazy power-ups, 78 different bricks, and a level editor, Deep Ball Defender is just what the brick breaking enthusiast has been looking for.

Game play is your standard affair. Balls bounce, bricks break, power-ups drop and everybody wins. However, Deep Ball Defender's power-ups go far beyond the normal ones you would expect.

Sure you still get the usual three balls and wide paddle options, but you also get some crazy stuff like eight balls or the really cool mother ball, which makes your ball create a mini ball every time it destroys a brick.

What's even cooler is that all the power-ups can stack so you can have eight balls that all spit mini balls every time they destroy a brick. You can even set them on fire so they'll destroy even a five hit block in one shot. Simply put, it's just fun.