Our friend Igor Hardy over at A Hardy Developer’s Workshop blog has a cool and thought-provoking interview with Tale of a Hero creator Pavel Černohous. Tale of a Hero, a P&C adventure game in the classic Roberta Williams style, is not readily available yet in the States (or readily available widely outside of Eastern Europe at all), but the press has been good. With the adventure genre still in decline, it’s good to see a …
When last we left brilliant FBI agent, Victoria McPherson, she was attempting to soak away the bumps and bruises acquired while tracking down an elusive serial killer – a killer whose MO seemed to span several generations and cities. Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you’ll know that the original Still Life ended with a cliff-hanger due to its developer, Microïds, running out of time and money. Not too long after that, Microïds shut …
Can someone tell me why, in the name of all that is holy, is Secret Files: Tunguska getting ported to the DS? Bueller? I’m all for exposing gamers to those games they might not otherwise get the chance to experience. I love adventure games on the Nintendo DS – I’ve gobbled-up games designed specifically for the DS with a spoon. Games like Trace Memory, Hotel Dusk and Time Hollow; were brilliant in their use of …
Q: What do you get when you pit the world’s greatest literary detective against the world’s most infamous serial killer? A: Johnny Depp in From Hell? Well… yeah. No. What you actually get is Frogwares Studio’s newest game Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper. Set against the backdrop of 1888 London during the height of the Ripper’s reign of terror, players are immersed in the oppressive poverty and dark, dangerous streets of the faithfully recreated …
Review by Old Rooster Everlight: Of Magic And Power Developer: The Games Company Publisher: The Adventure Company Released: October, 2008 Available for: Windows XP/Vista (System Specs Below) Verdict: 4/5 Thumbs Up “Grandpa, What Is A ‘Dom-i-na-trix’?” My 3rd grade grandson has great reading skills, including an interest in new words to embellish his rich vocabulary. Unfortunately, one day he happened to be looking over my shoulder at the gorgeous fairy tale setting presented in Everlight …
Autumn Moon Entertainment has released a demo of their much-anticipated comic adventure A Vampyre Story; which chronicles the adventures of opera starlet, Mona De Lafitte and her batty side-kick, Froderick. The demo offers a short look of Mona as she attempts to find graveyard dirt for her coffin in preparation for some travelling. A Vampyre Story is scheduled for a UK release on November 24th; while the word on a US release is listed as …