Jackal

Fans of puzzle solving and horror were well catered to with last year’s Penumbra: Black Plague, a clever free-roaming, first-person title that emphasized its physics engine to create elegant challenges, mixed with a few inventory puzzles and a pinch of stealth. What made that game so successful, however, was the sparing use of powerful foes, […]

It has just been reported that all coins from the Museum of the History of Cypriot Coinage have mysteriously vanished. Your mission: to travel back in time with your Time Machine and recover all 100 missing coins. Your reward: US $10,000 will be offered to the first person that recovers the entire collection. To claim […]

I’ve always loved reading, and one of my happiest memories growing up is when I was introduced to a long lost great aunt that had been an English teacher in the late 1940s. She took a shine to me, and when we got in the car to leave, the trunk was full of the complete […]

Like a quick blast of Arctic air, Penumbra: Black Plague is both chilling and refreshing. It’s a rather unconventional game; a horror-themed adventure that looks and controls almost exactly like a first person shooter. But don’t let that put you off; although there is a dash of stealth gameplay, this is for the most part […]

We’ve seen the adventurization (new word; don’t look it up) of hidden object games several times already, but now the genre has reached even further into the casual game market and touched Diner Dash. After five games spent waiting on tables, the star of the popular restaurant puzzler is finally able to break free from […]