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In Memoriam, a low-profile but highly popular game from Ubi Soft, might be signaling the emergence of a new adventure game sub-genre. Game academics have coined the term “pervasive games” to describe games that pervade into reality through e-mail correspondence, fake websites or location-based activities. Considering the high levels of hype surrounding pervasive and mobile […]

Gamespy has just run Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon through its crit mill, bestowing it with a score of 4/5: “Game designers take note: This is how adventure games should be done….it's enough to say that Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon is the best game of its kind since Grim Fandango and The Longest Journey. […]

Happy Holidays from Funcom! It is with great pleasure that we can exclusively reveal the very first image of the as-yet-untitled next chapter in the The Longest Journey saga. Included are the signatures of the design and art leads, and a bit of information regarding how the season is celebrated in Arcadia. The concept image […]

Gameboomers has recently interviewed Benoit Sokal on his upcoming sequel Syberia 2, focusing on such key narrative aspects as the further developing storyline, Kate Walker's progress in her spiritual quest, and some of the new characters she meets on her adventures. The game's enhanced graphics engine is also discussed in addition to other technical improvements: […]

Gamezone gave Uru: Ages Beyond Myst a score of 9.3 and an Editor's Choice Award: “The graphics in Uru are incredible. The world of the D’ni is huge and beautifully rendered. The different stages in the game look amazing, with brilliant design, amazing lighting effects and great looking textures. The character models are also well […]

IGN.com gave Mysterious Journey II: Chameleon a 6.8/10: “To be honest, I had very low expectations when I was asked to review this title. I played Schizm and was less than impressed. It scored a fabulous 3 out of 10 from me. I cited the impossibly difficult puzzles and a lame story as my reasons […]

ActionTrip has just previewed the upcoming Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude, touching on such signature aspects of the LSL world as the lovable characters, comedic story, and adult humour as well as the move to full 3D and cross platform release. Read the full preview here, which include screenshots and two trailers.

Adventure games “as we know it” are dead. What does that mean? Does that mean “text” adventure games with text input; story, puzzles, no art, no animation, no music, no sound, no spoken dialog? Does that mean “picture book” adventure games with more advanced text input; story, puzzles, no animation, no music, no sound, no […]

Gameplanet.co.nz awarded Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon a 4.5/5 (Excellent) and summed it up with: “Just shy of perfect the graphic adventure doesn't get much better than this. An extremely entertaining romp through exotic locales unravelling ancient mysteries and foiling the schemes of the power mad who aim to exploit them. Adventure fans should definitely […]

“Spokane, Washington – December 17th, 2003 – Cyan Worlds, Inc., developers of the multi-million selling MYST® franchise, today announced that the highly acclaimed soundtrack for URU: Ages Beyond MYST® is now available at Amazon. Composed and produced by Tim Larkin, the soundtrack features over 50 minutes of original music including bonus tracks from future updates […]