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Or, there's always Netflix's Carmen Sandiego, a new animated series following the beloved character (as voiced by Gina Rodriguez).Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. Of course, this trio of time-fillers aren't going anywhere, so you can spend as much time as you like playing gumshoe and reliving your childhood across the series. Now that all three games have been released, that's it for the Carmen Sandiego-Google Earth collaboration.
In the process, you'll put your world trivia knowledge to the test and get a hefty dose of nostalgia. From there, it's time to start sleuthing - by hopping between countries, visiting landmarks, talking to locals and sorting through clues such as "I heard she exchanged all of her money for yen", "all I know is that he said he wanted to buy a bagel with a schmear" and "the person you were looking for was here, and she wanted a ton of olive oil".
And in Recover the Keys to the Kremlin, master origamist Paperstar is the target, absconding with another treasure.Īnyone keen to play simply needs to head to the Google Earth app on Android or iOs, or visit the desktop version in chrome, and look for the Pegman icon. In Tutankhamun's Mask, you're tasked with tracking down master climber Le Chevre, who has stolen the titular artifact. Instead, you're working with the now-reformed ex-thief to solve cases. After the first game, however, you're not hunting down Sandiego. And now you can do so all over again, thanks to two new games: Tutankhamun's Mask and Recover the Keys to the Kremlin.Īs always, something valuable has been stolen and its your job to find it. Sparking immediate flashbacks to the best parts of primary school, the game sent users searching for the titular red-clad international thief as part of a jaunt called The Crown Jewels Caper. Many of its services have become such a part of our daily lives that we no longer give them much thought, but every now and then the company has fun with one of its platforms - bringing Pac-Man, Mario Kart and Where's Waldo? to Google Maps, for example.Įarlier this year, in its latest entertaining attempt to direct everyone towards a specific product, Google brought back another retro title - combining Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? with Google Earth. From web searches and browsers to email and document storage, Google has its fingers in plenty of different online pies.