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Even before the term “edutainment” was first coined in 1975, the concept of education through entertainment had always been a controversial one. Some detractors say that joining entertainment and culture inevitably diminishes the latter, whilst other sceptics claim that such a practice can only lead to a mixed experience, unsatisfactory both in terms of education […]

Physicus, a two-disc science adventure game, is the first Tivola-published edutainment title created by the developers at Heureka-Klett, and as such, an innovation in itself; it is the first adventure game that I know of that incorporates the science of physics into its plot and puzzles. If you shy away from anything that states you […]

Danger on Deception Island is the ninth in the venerable Nancy Drew adventure series. It begins as Nancy sets out for a much-deserved vacation on a small island in the Pacific Northwest. Of course, nothing is ever that simple in Nancy’s world, and instead of rest and relaxation, she soon finds herself immersed in a […]

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, I heard about a computer game published by Spielberg’s now-legendary DreamWorks called The Neverhood. I did some checking around about this game and discovered that it got nearly universal raves, so I set myself to buy a copy. It went on my eBay shopping list. […]

Jazz and Faust seemed to me a more promising game than Syberia when all we had seen of either game was screenshots and previews. I’ve been looking forward to Jazz and Faust for a long time. A promising start… The visuals had a great deal of charm. They were inventive and imaginative, a world apart […]