Peccable

In January of 1982, a book entitled “Holy Blood, Holy Grail” was published. Challenging that the traditional, accepted view of the life of Christ was incomplete, the authors plotted a strange path connecting the mystery of a hidden treasure in the small French village of Rennes-le-Chateau to the history of the Cathars, the Templars, and […]

The sun god’s response was clear, final, and without hope of reversal: either a great obelisk would be built to his honor before the season of Shemu and Ramses would live and rule for years to come, or it would not, and all of Egypt would fall with her Pharaoh… The Egyptian Prophecy begins with […]

When I first heard the premise of A Quiet Weekend in Capri, I was oddly reminded of a game released in 1998 called The Lost Island of Alanna. While the idea of commercial gaming is hardly new, the idea of games as commercials certainly is. Alanna was produced by the Coca-Cola company to promote their […]

In the mid-nineties, the big buzzword in the computer gaming industry was “Interactive Movies.” Hollywood had invaded gaming, and production companies now had to worry about blue-screens and actors as much as puzzles and gameplay. Unfortunately, very few good, memorable games came out of this period. While in theory Full Motion Video sounded like a […]

At this year’s E3, Jane Jensen announced that she would — through a partnership with The Adventure Company — develop a new adventure game series, codenamed Project Jane-J. Due sometime towards the end of 2004, the new work in some ways echoes Jensen’s previous magnum opus: the Gabriel Knight series. The Gabriel Knight mysteries were […]