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When we met [Producer] Egbert Latza from HMH and [Lead Designer] Jan Theysen from King Art at a pub on Tuesday before gamescom, we were hoping to get our hands on new information and maybe even some pictures of the latest project from the team that already released one of the best adventures in recent […]

When visiting Daedalic Entertainment in Hamburg recently, we naturally got to take a look at how A New Beginning is coming along. While it is still in a very early stage of production, one chapter is largely done already. The story starts off in the distant future. Humanity has ruined the earth’s climate, rendering the […]

While the first original adventure announced from Daedalic Entertainment is, in every respect, A New Beginning, the company’s second project already has a long history. The Whispered World started out as graphic artist Marco Hüllen’s graduation project, before it was later taken up by Bad Brain Entertainment, the self-styled publisher/developer that in the end was […]

Unlike some adventures, The Abbey wasn’t talked about much before the Games Convention started. Other than a Spanish preview early in 2006, there had only been the little information gleaned from the 2006 GC to go on. And there, Crimson Cow didn’t show anything of the game, sending the press home with a few cryptic […]

Ever since April, when The Games Company began to release information about Everlight, the new adventure from Silver Style Entertainment, there’s been more talk about its similarities to Simon the Sorcerer 4 than the game itself. Recently we were invited to the headquarters of the publisher in Berlin so that we could form our own […]

With the release of Simon the Sorcerer 3D in 2002, Mike and Simon Woodroofe didn’t do themselves or the series any favours. The game included way too much running around, and the terrible 3D graphics discouraged many players from even trying the third adventure game about the charismatic sorcerer’s apprentice. So the decision to design […]