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The Official PlayStation Magazine is reporting that the ICO team is currently at work on a sequel to the critically-acclaimed action/adventure game. Apparently, the team recently ran a job-recruitment article in various Japanese magazines with a first shot of the game!

Dreamcatcher Interactive has officially shipped Syberia to the United States today. The game carries a retail price of $29.99. Keep your eyes on Adventure Gamers for some very exciting Syberia-related news coming later this week!

The Electric Playground has reviewed Shadow of Destiny, giving it 6.5 out of 10. The storyline is “intriguing and increasingly complex”, but gameplay is said to lack challenge.

Dreamcatcher Interactive is having a contest over at their website where you can enter to win any of the following prizes: 5 Iron Storm TShirts, 10 copies of Syberia and 5 Syberia Limited Edition posters. All you have to do is fill out a short survey.

We have been ‘test driving’ it for a few days, but now our Links Directory is officially open for business. You can find it under “Links” in the left menu bar. We intend to create a huge directory of links, but you can also help us by submitting suggestions using this form.

Adventure Developer has posted Tip Number 3 in their line of Adventure Game Tips, a series of pointers for amateur game developers. The previous two tips can be found here and here.

The New York Times’ Charles Herold has written A Streak of Glamour but a Lack of Lifeblood, an article covering the current state of adventure gaming. Its main focus is Syberia, the recently released third-person game. Unfortunately, he wasn’t all that impressed. Syberia is an ambitious game that clearly means to be something special, and […]

Gordon Aplin of Quandary has reviewed Largo Winch: Empire Under Threat, calling it a “surprisingly entertaining adventure game.” Even the combat scenarios can be seen as puzzles as only a strategy is required and none of them proved too difficult even when faced with up to four opponents. Action fans may well find the combat […]

Adventure-Archiv’s Slydos has posted a review of Voodoo, an amateur adventure game. They award it a final score of 75 percent, saying that the graphics are quite good (“for a freeware game”) and that the puzzles fit well into the context of the story.

GameSpot has posted their review of Syberia, giving the game a superb score of 9.1 with the encouraging synopsis “Syberia proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the adventure game genre is still full of life.” Hurrah GameSpot! The review is free for 30 days for non-members.