''Vast Studios'' is a casual video game company founded in 2008 and headquartered in

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. They are the developer of ''3Tones'', a match 3 game nominated for

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' Great Game Awards as well as the ''Nightfall Mysteries'' series. The studio also partnered with

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to make a point-and-click style game based around the

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called “Lost Chronicles: Salem” which was released December 4, 2010. The first publicly released game by Vast was "Hard Hittin’ Hockey" in 2007. Vast Studios has since gone out of business, and in 2014, they were acquired by ISIS Lab Corporation, now known as Tangelo Games Corp.

Games

The company produced primarily puzzle and

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games; however, recent titles involved hidden object games. Their games are distributed via digital download portals such as

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. Their games have been reviewed at

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References

External links

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