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The playable demo for developer Revistronic’s The Westerner is now available to download. Originally released in Spain and soon to be launched in most European countries sometime next month (no news yet on a North American distributor), The Westerner is a real-time 3D point-&-click adventure set in the Wild Wild West, with graphics approaching the […]

Tri-Synergy has just informed us that the release date of the long-awaited adventure Midnight Nowhere has been pushed back to February, in order to allow some time to generate more publicity. An updated demo will be released within the next few days, and we will let you know when that happens. Stay tuned for the […]

Cinemax, an independent Czech development house, has just released the playable demo of In The Raven Shadow, their adventure game done in the classic 2D point-&-click style. The game's story follows a young monk looking for the meaning of life while at the same time trying to clear his name of a spite of which […]

A Chicago Tribune article, “Video game music gains recognition”, talks of the increasing importance of music in the industry. It also gives a nod toward an upcoming game in the Myst franchise. In addition to licensing existing tunes, record companies also are commissioning new works for games. Big names have written music for games now […]

Reviewgamer.com has just reviewed Uru: Ages Beyond Myst, giving it a score of 7.8/10. Mysterious Journey II: Chameleon was given an overall score of 7.3/10 by GameRaiders.com in its review.

Thanks to our Future of Adventure Games feature, we’ve been introduced to a promising new adventure game game. Developer Tale of Tales contacted us after seeing the article, and told us they’re working on an innovative and artistic game that they simply call 8. 8 is a slow-paced non-violent game with a strongly poetic narrative. […]

Ernest Adams is a widely known commentator on game design. He co-founded the International Game Developers Association, writes his Designer’s Notebook column for Gamasutra, gives workshops and lectures, writes books on game design, and wears a hat. He is also a great character, as anyone who has met him would tell you. I sat down […]

Gamer’s Hell is currently hosting a ‘LucasArts Demo Invasion’, offering a taste of many of the classic adventures released by LucasArts available to download, including such titles as: Day of the Tentacle (1.1 MB) Full Throttle (94.6 MB) Grim Fandango (54.3 MB) Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (800 KB) Loom (500 KB) Monkey […]

Retired game creator Al Lowe has published some of his original design documents on his website. This offfers a great opportunity for fans (or anyone interested in game design) to get a sneak peek at what goes into the preparation of designing a game. The following complete design docs are available in PDF format: Leisure […]

Over at the Unofficial Tex Murphy fan site, Tex Murphy co-creator Aaron Conners has posted a progress report on his efforts to restart the series. Currently employed at Microsoft Games Studios, Aaron Conners is working together with Chris Jones on a prototype that they hope will convince publishers to fund a fully-fledged sequel to Tex […]