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For a girl who’s been 18 for 70 some years, Nancy Drew is getting around pretty well! Now it appears her somewhat novel persona has been lifted from the printed page and placed in the midst of a multimedia game developed by Her Interactive. When I purchased Secrets Can Kill, I was really looking forward […]

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 […]

An expert in various fields of science, the occult, and history, Martin Mystère, brainchild of Alfredo Castelli, has been gracing Italian comic books with his enigmatic presence and adroit archeological skills for over twenty years. Starting with his first appearance in the Martin Mystère Monthly back in 1982, and later published by Dark Horse in […]

One of the best unpublicized (until today) benefits of having children is that you can purchase many really cool things intended for kids, for yourself, and still keep your authority, pride and reputation intact. Strange looks from clerks cause no anxiety for me, as I smile reassuringly and state: “This light saber is for my […]

I recently had the privilege of playing a two-chapter preview build of Great Journey, a game appealing to the 6-12 age group developed by Rebelmind Studios, the same group behind the recent action/RPG Grom. The demo I played had yet to be voiced in English, but the subtitles were translated decently. The pre-rendered backgrounds of […]

Private Moon Studios has released an interactive demo of the first episode of their episodic adventure AGON. This demo will give players a taste of the games features and format.

My wife rolls over at two a.m., raising her head enough to mumble towards my hunched form shadowed by the ambience of the computer screen in our darkened bedroom. “What are you doing still up?” “Killing a gorgon.” I replied. “Go back to sleep.” She lay her head back down and after a moment, I […]