Jackal

Can a video game make you cry? I’m always surprised by this question, because I know the answer is yes. In fact, games make me cry fairly regularly—and I like it that way. As a fan of emotionally charged stories, I feel cheated if a dramatic game doesn’t make me sniffle a bit during its […]

The adventure market doesn’t lack for homebrew efforts full of good intentions, but the sad fact is that so few of those efforts hit their marks that expectations for any small-group title tend to be low. What’s surprising about Metal Dead is not that it far exceeds what a lot of other low-budget independent games […]

I listened to a group of gaming journalists recently debate the reasons for the decline of adventure gaming in popularity. Not exactly an original endeavor, to be sure; they arrived at the tired conclusion that the Internet era of instant gratification is to be blamed for breeding a culture of impatience, and adventure games with […]

If you start feeling a case of déjà vu shortly, that’s understandable. The title may not sound familiar, but City Interactive’s Crime Lab: Body of Evidence is really a casualized reimagining of Art of Murder: Cards of Destiny for the Nintendo DS. Like they did previously with Chronicles of Mystery: Curse of the Ancient Temple, […]