Jón Kristinsson

On his blog Ron Gilbert recently talked about his inspiration for Monkey Island, and I’m not talking about the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. A most interesting read, if not for just his theories on why the stories in games like Hitman: Codename 47 don’t really work. I figured if Guybrush didn’t know anything, then […]

GeneralCoffee has released a demo for Future Boy, where you play Future Boy’s roommate who has to rescue Future Boy from the clutches of Clayton Eno. The 36MB demo is available at Gamer’s Hell and various other locations listed here.

Argentinian developer and publisher Nucleosys sent us three new high-resolution screenshots of their first game, in development, Scratches. A horror adventure set in a house, that was once occupied by a man accused of murdering his wife, where nothing is what it seems. As you go and uncover more of the house’s mysteries it becomes […]

There're two new reviews of Dark Fall: Lights Out up on the internet and our first stop is Gamehelper.com. Gamehelper give Lights Out 6.5 points out of 10, saying:   Refusing to rest on Myst’s laurels, some adventure games have taken up the gauntlet and run with it. Syberia and Syberia II boast an incredibly […]

GameZone has got a review up for Alida giving it a very mediocre score of 4.5 out of 10:   With a weak story, awkward puzzles and a cliché environment, Alida makes for one weak adventure game experience. Not only that, but everything here has been done (and much better) a decade ago.     […]

Jonathan Boakes', of XXV Productions, sequel to Dark Fall, titled Dark Fall: Lights Out, is up for a review on, surprisingly, NGASports.com, a site that at first glance looks entirely online-gaming oriented. The very good, two-page review, gives Lights Out a score of 86 out of a 100:   What Jonathan Boakes has created here […]

The fruit and labour of High Voltage Software, Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude, is now being delayed even though it’s all finished. Apparently, the game is just so hot for someone to handle, that publishers Vivendi Universal are censoring a lot of the explicit love scenes for the final release. Will this make it […]

The Adventure Company has announced their plans to publish The Westerner in North America under the new name, WANTED: A Wild Western Adventure. Are they trying to launch a new style of emphasized first words in game titles, or is it just a coincidence? We’ll never know. Troubling the locals with his greedy thoughts, John […]

GameSpy's written up a preview on Myst IV: Revelation. The two-page review goes into detail in the graphics aspect of the game, and touches a bit on the puzzles. It also mentions that Ubisoft are doing heavy in-house playtesting to make sure the puzzles are balanced, and various other bugs.   Another common complaint of […]

Game Chronicles have a review up for Uru: Complete Chronicles which includes the original Uru and its two expansions all in one nifty little package, complete with a couple of new clothes and other character style choices. With an overall score of 9.4, they award it with GCM Editor's Award:   Uru is a substantial […]