Claire

Final Destination: The Secret of Larson’s Folly is an independently developed game, largely produced by the efforts of one man, Jonathan Cooper. The game fuses a futuristic sci-fi storyline with taxing puzzles, while at the same time attempting to establish a thought-provoking dialogue on questions of faith and life after death. The game opens with […]

Shakespeare probably never imagined that one day his immortal words would be emblazoned across tote bags and baseball caps. It is equally unlikely that he could have foreseen Ophelia, the tragic heroine he created for Hamlet, hob-nobbing with the 15th century poet François Villon, and the inebriated Russian monk, Rasputin. In Absurdus’ 2002 release Eye […]

Some developers reveal an almost poetic sensibility when choosing the titles of their games, which although lyrically pleasing could mislead potential buyers. To be sure, Grim Fandango was no dance platform game; nor was there overly much digging to be done in The Dig. Fortunately, no such confusion is created by the 2004 re-release of […]

Today, Revolution Software is a company at the forefront of adventure gaming, with their latest release (Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon) receiving critical acclaim. At a time when other companies have dubbed the genre stale and unprofitable, Charles Cecil and the Revolution team have pushed for originality and modernisation, combining traditional adventure elements with 3D […]

In 1948, George Orwell wrote his dystopian masterpiece, 1984, about a society whose citizens were under the constant surveillance of the Thought Police. Decades later, researchers have proved that our reliance on credit and store loyalty cards, mobile phones and computers could allow our day-to-day lives to be monitored in minute detail. The world has […]

Based upon the most compelling story of the Indiana Jones movie trilogy, Last Crusade represents a key stage in the evolution of the graphic adventure. The game faithfully retells the story of Jones’s race against the forces of evil to recover the legendary Holy Grail, while fleshing out the original movie plot with arcade sequences, […]

One could hardly have missed The X-Files, the hit TV show, which catapulted David Duchovny (Fox Mulder) and Gillian Anderson (Dana Scully) to fame in the early nineties, as two truth-seeking FBI Agents who were bent on determining the existence of aliens and exposing governmental corruption. The show became a cultural phenomenon, spawning nine seasons, […]

As a first-person adventure, The Elk Moon Murder indulges our secret desire to play police detective for the day. While lacking the glamour of NYPD, players can expect to encounter a traditional plot filled with eccentric locals, numerous suspects and enough red herrings to feed a small feral cat population. In the wake of Anna […]

Adventure fans from York and the surrounding area turned out on 15th November to have Charles Cecil and Tony Warriner sign their copies of . No doubt lured by the promise of original hand-drawn cells from the first and second games, and a copy of the “making of” DVD, fans were attracted from as far […]