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Gamer’s Hell has just announced that UbiSoft has released the demo to Uru: Ages Beyond Myst, offering adventure gamers a taste of this innovative title with a Myst pedigree. The demo weighs in at 109.5MB and can be downloaded here.

The BAFTA Games Award nominees for 2003 have been announced. Among the nominees are two adventure games, namely Uru: Ages Beyond Myst (oddly listed under “strategy”) and Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon, which has been nominated for no less than three categories. The BAFTA seems to take a pretty liberal approach towards game genres, as […]

GMX Media has announced that it has secured the rights to publish Frogwares’ PC adventure Journey to the Center of the Earth in the UK, Scandinavia, and Portugal. Journey is being published in the US by Viva Media. GMX has previously published The Watchmaker in the UK, and holds the publishing rights there for Runaway: […]

Developer David Sykes lets us know on the Revolution forum that Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon has gone gold in Europe. Going gold means that the game has been burned to the final master disk. Copies should be in stores from November 14. According to Sykes the Adventure Company version for the US is “very […]

Al Lowe, beloved creator of Leisure Suit Larry and lead designer of all previous Larry games, today with the permission of Sierra’s legal department released this “grammatically challenged” statement on his website: “Currently, I am in the process of negotiations with Vivendi Universal Games and my involvement with the next installment of the Leisure Suit […]

[image=1023] VU Games has now officially announced Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude. The game will be coming to PC, Xbox and PS2 sometime late 2004. As reported earlier, the gameplay will be a mix of adventure and Grand Theft Auto 3-style free roaming. Unlike the previous installments of the series, Magna Cum Laude will […]

Michel Bams, Olivier Fontenay, Jean-Philippe Messian and Benoît Sokal have co-founded White Birds Productions, a new company focusing on the development of adventure games. The company also intends to bring the universes it creates to other media, such as audiovisual, cartoon publishing and merchandising. Benoît Sokal is the creator and art director of Amerzone, Syberia […]

Synthetix Interactive has sent us two impressive screenshots of their (Still) Unnamed Project Joe, representing a new direction the team taken for the artwork. The game stars the titular Joe as a low-life bar owner, whose establishment becomes target of the local maffia. [image=1009] [image=1010] Unnamed Project Joe is an independent student-based project, though Synthetix […]

Got Game Entertainment, LLC has just released a patch to update Rhem. The patch fixes a few glitches, including installing a start menu shortcut and ironing out a .dll error. Download the patch from Gamer’s Hell.

Blues News has just posted that the demo for developer Saturn Plus’ upcoming horror themed adventure title Midnight Nowhere is now available from the website of publisher Buka Entertainment. The demo comes in at 160MB, the full game does not yet have an official launch date. Additional mirrors for the demo can be found at […]