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LOG ON. About to start Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender. The game’s backstory is told in the manual through Rex’s automated log. That’s an original idea, and it’s rather hilariously written, so I’m going to do the same for my review. It’s all about a guy called Rex Nebular, his space ship (the […]

As much as I love , I'm a bit leery when it comes to its so-called “clones” – many of which reproduce the formula without nearly the same quality – so I went into with some trepidation. Fortunately, despite some minor flaws, the intriguing backstory of Russian mind experiments and engaging gameplay in this solitary […]

I've always been amused that the term “adventure game” persists the way it does. Whether solving a murder mystery, exposing ancient conspiracies, or investigating a haunted house, if the gameplay involves solving puzzles to overcome obstacles, the term applies, even if there’s very little similarity to the story genre of the same name. But when […]

While playing the newest Carol Reed adventure, Black Circle, another female sleuth was brought to mind, Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple. Miss Marple was a sweet old lady who was content with her knitting, seemingly inconspicuous yet always observant and on top of the mystery at hand. While being a detective was not her profession, Miss […]

When Capcom decided to replace the popular, spiky-haired Phoenix Wright as the lead protagonist of the Ace Attorney series, they must have known they were taking a gamble. With the original series neatly wrapped up in Trials and Tribulations, it was inevitably going to be difficult to start again with a new main character and […]

It was inevitable that the Hardy Boys would one day become the protagonists of their own mystery game. After starring in hundreds of books covering more than 80 years, Frank and Joe – coincidentally named and no relation to myself – have become immortalized as crime-fighting teenage sleuths in the tradition of Nancy Drew and […]