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In commemoration of the BBC’s upcoming Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy radio shows (adapting the latter three books in Douglas Adams’ beloved “trilogy”), the company is re-releasing Infocom’s classic Hitchhiker’s text adventure. Presumably, the text of the game itself will remain the same, but the BBC is updating it to include accompanying illustrations. Rod Lord, […]

The Adventure Company just announced that XXv Productions’ first-person adventure Dark Fall: Lights Out has shipped to retail stores. The sequel to 2002’s Dark Fall: The Journal “offers more than 50 realistic pre-rendered locations to explore in a startling ghost story weaved with multiple chilling subplots”. For more, check out Adventure Gamers’ review of The […]

The Adventure Company has just signed on writer Lee Sheldon to script and plan the first game based on the ouevre of celebrated mystery novelist Agatha Christie. A habitué of the mystery genre, Sheldon is a major force and asset to the adventure genre, with contributions in such titles as Uru: Ages Beyond Myst and […]

Game Club Central got their hands on Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon and gave it a score of 8.5/10:   “It is not easy to play this type of game when you are used to the constant click and play of a real time strategy game or a first person shooter, but for those puzzle […]

The Adventure Company has just declared that Dark Fall: Lights Out has gone gold and will soon be on store shelves: “Dark Fall: Lights Out begins with the arrival of Benjamin Parker, a young cartographer, in the Cornish harbor town of Trewarthen. Jagged falling rocks have claimed the lives of many of the town’s fishermen, […]

Rebell.at managed to grab a hold of adventure game design veteran Ron Gilbert (of Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island fame) for a humor inflected Q&A session. Among the topics discussed are the progress (or regress, you decide) of the adventure game genre: “I think that adventure game got real stupid in the early 90’s and […]

The webmaster of the Longest Journey fan site Black House (formerly called TLJ: Next Step) was fortunate enough to visit the Funcom offices during his holiday in Norway, getting a tour from Jarl Schjerverud, Lead Game Designer on Dreamfall. If you ever wondered in what kind of place Ragnar Tornquist & Co work, or if […]

German publisher dtp has announced that Bruce Willis and Julia Roberts will be doing the principal voices for the German version of the upcoming title The Moment Of Silence…sort of. To be truthful, it will be the voice actors who do the dubbing for Willis and Roberts in German versions of their films. The actors […]

Broken Sword Zone has just posted an interview with Revolution cofounder Tony Warriner on Revolution’s general climate and projects. Of particular mention are the possibility of another chapter in the Broken Sword series, and the production of Beneath a Steel Sky 2 (which will be done in 3D). For the full article, click here. In […]

Publisher Digital Jesters has just launched the official site for developer House Of Tales’s upcoming conspiracy thriller The Moment Of Silence: “The Moment of Silence website, which can be found at www.MomentOfSilence.com, will provide gamers with up-to-date news, game information and seven brand new screenshots. A forum will be up and running for those fans […]