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Let’s go back to about ten years ago. A beautiful orange middle-eastern house in the middle of a garden, surrounded by lovely rose hedges. Well, let’s see… a rose could come in handy… let’s try and pick one! “Alexander has not been invited to pick the family’s roses.” Well, then, let’s go to the house […]

Roberta Williams was always one for breaking new grounds and making what others thought impossible. In 1989, her new challenge was to make a detective game. That didn’t seem like an easy task, since you couldn’t really see how your average adventure gamer who doesn’t have the intelligence of Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot could […]

FTHANGH’G CTHULHU IAEEE! If the only thing this reminds you of is your last visit to the dentist, you are probably not among the fans of Howard Philips Lovecraft. His numerous short stories and novellas built a complex and disturbing mythology, and spawned many continuations in various forms, including computer games. Despite the complexity of […]

It is all perfectly elementary, isn’t it? Bringing Sherlock Holmes to the computer, I mean. A famous and popular sleuth, known for being featured in good stories: a perfect idea for adventure games! So it is no surprise that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s consulting detective has been the hero of many different games. Yes, quite […]

In part one of this feature based on my day spent at the White Birds offices recently, co-founder and marketing manager Michel Bams admitted that the studio’s future might be in different genres, or even outside of games entirely. But as revealed in part two, with a whopping five new adventures in various stages of […]

In the first installment of this three-part White Birds feature, the French studio affirmed their ambitions as storytellers, not strictly game developers — an attitude which has some potentially ominous overtones for adventure gamers. Still, with one game behind them and several more already in production, White Birds isn’t ready to abandon the genre just […]

If someone asked you to imagine where White Birds have their offices, you’d probably picture a few rooms inside some faceless Paris building. You couldn’t be more wrong. They’re actually located in a 19th century industrial-style area in Joinville-Le-Pont devoted to the film industry, where many big post-production companies work. What, then, is a computer […]

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