Stinger

As with yesterday’s Atlantis Evolution, I have here another game that I can certainly file under “happy surprises” of this year’s E3. Legacy Interactive has had no small amount of success with their previous installments of Law & Order on the PC (Dead on the Money and Double or Nothing). You would think they would […]

Okay, true confession time. We didn’t actually see House of Tales’ upcoming The Moment of Silence at E3. But, we did. Now that I’ve even confused myself, let me explain. The representative from House of Tales was himself unable to meet with us. He had a full schedule running around to various publishers and demoing […]

It’s no secret that Adventure Gamers has quite a reputation as being a “Myst-unfriendly” site. Perhaps part of this reputation is earned, and perhaps part is exaggerated. But a great deal of it comes from the frustration we often express with the direction that adventure games have gone since the days of Myst, and how […]

The last two days, we have told you about two remarkable adventure games (Dreamfall and Fahrenheit) that are set to revolutionize the genre with a new attention to realism, new technology breakthroughs, exciting and innovative new interfaces, and a remarkable cinematic quality. Our #3 game of E3 2004, Jane Jensen’s Booby Trap, is about as […]

Before I even get started with this preview, I want you to follow this link and download the trailer for Fahrenheit (free registration with GameSpot required). Fair warning: the trailer is disturbing and adult-oriented in content. Watch it anyway. Don’t come back until you’re done. Now go downstairs and retrieve your jaw. Our genre has […]

I’m writing this from the depths of Los Angeles International Airport, awaiting my flight at the healthy hour of 5:30am. I have found new ways to not sleep this entire week. My body no longer seems to know which meal to expect, and often insists on trying to give meals back to me. I can […]

It’s very easy to think that E3 is a “fun” event…and maybe if I was just there as a game fan, it would be a bit more “fun.” But as a journalist, it’s been absolutely exhausting. Yesterday was a matter of literally walking from one meeting to the next—perhaps stopping on the way to pay […]

Our merry band of E3 groupies–err, journalists have completed our first day of tireless exploring of the Los Angeles Convention Center. There’s no way that the sheer noise and crush of people can be properly communicated through mere text, but for an E3 virgin like myself, it was quite a trip. Thankfully, there is a […]

“Alexander, here you are! You’re not still thinking about Cassima, are you?” The rise and fall of Sierra On-Line parallels the rise and fall of graphic adventure games, for obvious reasons, because Sierra was a major part of all the genre’s stages. They gave birth to the graphic adventure, nurtured it to its peak level […]

“My name’s Guybrush Threepwood, and I want to be a pirate!” Never has a company produced such a magnificent run of great games as LucasArts did during their golden era, from 1990 to 1995. But they weren’t always pumping out the hits in rapid-fire fashion. After the release of Maniac Mansion in 1987, the SCUMM […]