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Some adventure fans might remember an unassuming little indie adventure released last year called Hauntings of Mystery Manor, by Cindy Pondillo. This was her first independently developed title using the Adventure Game Studio engine. While receiving lukewarm reviews, the style of her debut effort was a pleasant departure from standard commercial and AGS offerings alike. […]

I find it slightly amusing and very self-revealing that a 34-year-old male can sit down and enjoy being Nancy Drew. No, not the Nancy Drew in her austere dress, coiffed hair and delicate 30’s etiquette. The sleuthing, inquisitive, alert, intelligent and ever-vigilant revealer of mysteries! In such a way, this creation of Edward Stratemeyer (of […]

THQ, the publisher that will bring us Broken Sword III: The Sleeping Dragon later this year, has taken the Nickelodeon license to new depths with their latest SpongeBob SquarePants adventure, Employee of the Month. Fresh on the heels of his antics in Operation Krabby Patty, SpongeBob’s first adventure, our square yellow fellow with a penchant […]

From a game with a box tagline that reads “You’ve never played anything like this before”, comes something decidedly different. Not even halfway through Full Moon in San Francisco, a new independent adventure from Alternative Games, I suddenly realized that I had…never played anything like this before. This is not really a great achievement of […]

For Legacy Interactive’s second game in the Law & Order series, a title like Double or Nothing might seem oddly appropriate. Likely though, sales of this latest chapter of the popular television franchise will reveal that it’s less than a gamble and more of a cash cow, ensuring the prosperity of future titles. Doing proper […]

When I received my review copy of Chemicus: Journey to the Other Side, published by Tivola Entertainment, I had all intentions of having the review finished before the game hit retail shelves. Little did I know the scope of this game would require more than the nominal one-day marathon to complete. This game is, in […]

When I was growing up, my homeopathic savvy mother used to mix dolomite in my chocolate milk, and brewer’s yeast in my orange juice. Though this affected the flavor to a degree, I had little choice in the matter, and after a while I couldn’t tell the difference anyway. As an adult, I recently ate, […]

In the interest of creating a non-biased review experience for you, dear reader, I will save you the sordid details of my technical trials with this game. Having previously been unsuccessful in repressing the blind rage that sent me streaking through the neighborhood with “Law & Order my a**” emblazoned across the two respective cheeks […]

Schizm: Mysterious Journey (inexplicably renamed Mysterious Journey: Schizm in North America) is an adventure game developed by some extremely artistic and creative people at Detalion and published by The Adventure Company (when it was just DreamCatcher). It is also a very large game, spanning four discs on the CD-ROM version. One would be advised to […]