Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifianakis are teetotalers compared to Sir Lancelot, and their hangovers have nothing on the morning after for the “sexiest Knight of the Round Table.” Atoning for his massive screw-up during a wild bender the night before provides the completely absurd premise of the upcoming “silly medieval point and click […]
Long time ago, in a Realm of Orion, a powerful but greedy wizard collected knowledge from all around the world. And thus came the three Books: books of Knowledge, Law and Magic. The books gave him ultimate powers, but he used them not to prosper, but for chaos! One day the mighty enchantress Salina stole […]
Anchors aweigh, adventure fans! A sleak new indie title named has been sighted on the horizon. Currently in production by husband-and-wife development team Brain&Brain, the 2D point-and-click game is being billed as a “folktale about a trio of large bearded fellows on a fantastical adventure at sea,” in which the player’s decisions made throughout the […]
If you ever wondered how adventure games were born, there's a brand new one currently being hatched in an incubator in Spain. The game is , an episodic series set to debut early next year. casts players in the role of Hero Neustadt, a “wannabe adventurer” whose truly adventurous grandfather disappeared 13 years earlier during […]
Hero Neustadt is a wannabe adventurer whose grandfather disappeared 13 years ago during an expedition in search of the elusive Turtle King, a mythical land turtle carrying a map leading to infinite wealth on its shield. Now 1930, Hero has graduated as an anthropologist and rallies the remaining four members of the expedition to follow […]
For fans of Capcom’s courtroom dramas, developer Sketchy Logic hopes to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that their forthcoming legal adventure will perfectly fit the bill. The current Kickstarter campaign offers testimony of a game crafted very much in the vein of the well-known litigation series that clearly inspired it, yet taking a […]
What happens when sandbox world-building collides with a storytelling focus? We’re about to find out, as Telltale Games and Mojango are joining forces for a new episodic games series called . Telltale needs no introduction around these parts, but the creator of such interactive narrative-driven sensations as and has now set its sights on an […]
Now in its fourth year, the annual convention celebrating all-things-adventure gaming took up a new venue. From the London campus of the University of East Anglia, it moved across town to the Keyworth Centre of London South Bank University. Appropriately assisted by the Games Cultures course director, Siobhan Thomas, a huge area (including a vast […]
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is clearly Peltast Design’s mantra in designing the naval-themed follow-up to the 2012 freeware title Why Am I Dead? (recently re-released as Why Am I Dead?: Rebirth). The new game is fittingly titled and the two games are cut from the same cloth, both in their simplistic presentations […]
