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  Look up “adventure game icons” and you’re likely to spot a rogue’s gallery of familiar faces from yesteryear looking back at you. The short list of legendary characters from our favorite graphic adventures includes such personalities as King Graham of Daventry, lovable loser Larry Laffer, a maniacal tentacle bent on world domination, and the […]

There is something very important about . The Iranian struggle for independence is a topic many of us, myself included, likely know very little about, if anything. It doesn’t fit neatly with our western-centric way of thinking about the world. A realistic account of it is hard to find in any medium, let alone in […]

Part of achieving iconic status is that there is no shortage of followers looking to replicate your success even well after the fact. This certainly applies to Cyan’s best-selling adventure , which has become a household name since its debut more than two decades ago. Many imitators have come and gone since then, some more […]

“The world is an awful, uncool place; it should be burned to the ground, and anybody not cool enough destroyed.” This is the somewhat extreme premise of Mango Protocol’s . With a basis such as that, one might expect a dark and haunting descent-into-madness story full of Lovecraftian insanity and visuals. In reality, stars adorable […]

Using the interactive medium of adventure gaming as a means to educate rather than just entertain, independent Swedish developer Michael Levall is tackling the contemporary issue of depression in an upcoming game called . Featuring a gender-neutral character, the game will offer an idea of what it’s like living each day with this debilitating mental […]

Time travel adventures often conjure up grand visions of epic quests through history’s most memorable milestones; of rubbing shoulders with the most notable personalities of the past; of braving temporal paradoxes to save the world from otherwise inevitable disaster. Then there are the smaller time-looping interpersonal dramas, -style, such as a man reliving the same […]