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Action Trip has just reviewed Jack The Ripper, giving it a score of 57/100:   “The question here remains: did the developers ever consider putting in something challenging enough to test the player's knack for solving crimes? And will players have enough patience to endure through the boring bits in order to get to the […]

Dark Fall 2: Lights Out, the sequel to the critically acclaimed first-person suspense horror adventure released independently by XXv Productions in 2002, will (like its predecessor) be published by The Adventure Company. The game is scheduled for release this summer. To whet your appetite, a brand new trailer is available for download at Gamers Hell. […]

Rand Miller, co-creator of Myst, has just announced on the URU forums that the decision has been made to pull the plug on URU Live, the massively multiplayer component of the latest game in the Myst series. The goal with URU Live was to offer new content on a subscription basis. However, too few people […]

In this forum thread you can find a scan from the Australian gaming magazine “Hyper”, showing four new shots of the upcoming Sam & Max: Freelance Police. A bigger (but equally grainy) version is available from Samandmax.net (direct link). These are the first in-game screenshots that have been released. One previously released screenshot was said […]

Nucleosys, developers of independent mystery adventure Scratches — the first commercial adventure ever developed in Argentina — today updated their website with some interesting new stuff. Most importantly, the story page of the game has been expanded with new details; also, a music deal with black ambient band Cellar of Rats has been announced. Scratches […]

Gamespot has just reviewed Jack The Ripper, giving it an overall score of 5.2/10:   “Jack the Ripper is an ironic game, to say the least. It turns the usual gaming trend on its head: The developers spent a lot of time creating a really engaging story, but they hardly put any substantial gameplay into […]

The Adrenaline Vault’s Bob Mandel discusses the gradually vanishing boundaries between adventure games and first person shooters in his article, “The Convergence of Adventure and FPS Games”: “For most of the last decade, you couldn’t imagine two more opposite computer game genres than adventure titles and first-person shooters. The former traditionally revolved around a lot […]

RPGdot has given Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon an overall score of 88% and their RPGDot Gold Award:   “Overall, the game was fun, told a great story and may really be a milestone for coming adventures and a new breed of interactive movies. For the next installment, I wish for a little longer playing […]

Award winning composer Inon Zur has created the original music soundtrack for Microid’s upcoming adventure Syberia II. The soundtrack will feature melodic inflections of Eastern Europe mingled with indigenous Eastern tribal music, and cradled in an orchestral foundation. Zur has won awards and critical acclaim for his compositions for such games as Baldur’s Gate II: […]

Legend Entertainment, a credible industry source has stated, has just been shut down by Atari, its parent corporation. No further details are available at this moment, nor is there an official statement. Legend Entertainment was originally an adventure game developer, known for such titles as The Blackstone Chronicles and Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon. Sensing the imminent […]