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This is not really related to adventure games, but still very newsworthy in the “bizarre” category. ZDNet reports that “a new law passed in Greece means that anybody carrying an electronic game – even if it is just on a mobile phone – could face a hefty fine [up to 75.000 euro] or lengthy jail […]

According to PlanetPS2, Myst III: Exile will ship on Xbox and PlayStation 2 on October 4th. The only release date that’s been issued up till now said “sometime this Fall”.

At the ECTS in London we got a chance to talk with Stephen Carrière, who has worked on twelve different adventure games at developer-turned-publisher Arxel Tribe. Stephen showed us a beta version of the upcoming Ring II: Twilight of the Gods, a sequel to their game adaptation of Wagner’s opera “The Ring of the Nibelungen”. […]

It seems that Outcast 2 may still have a chance at seeing the light of day. GameSpyDaily has this bit of news: ElseWhere Entertainment is interested in developing a sequel to Outcast (PC), now [that] Belgian developer Appeal has ceased to work on Outcast 2 as it has gone bankrupt earlier this month. Currently ElseWhere […]

Her Interactive, the development studio most known for its Nancy Drew detective adventures, has announced that it has signed an affiliated label deal with Infogrames. The press release also provides some new information on their upcoming releases: “The two upcoming Her Interactive games tap into everyone’s interest in solving a mystery. In Nancy Drew: Secret […]

Adventure Gamers has learned from Jonathan Boakes, independent producer of critically-acclaimed Dark Fall that his current project Splinter has been sold to a larger London development house. As a result, Boakes has now begun work on Dark Fall II. The game, with a tentative release date of Easter 2003, will be set in a “lonely […]

In the October 2002 issue of PC Gamer US, LucasArts director Sean Clark speaks for the first time about his new project Full Throttle II. He reveals some first glimpses of the story: “Ben, the leader of a biker gang, gets himself entangled in a greedy plan to destroy a town and, more importantly to […]

Presto Studios, the company behind many adventure games including Myst III: Exile and the Journeyman Project series, soon won’t be making any more games. You can read more at the Unofficial Riven Home Page. “Due to business, financial, and personal reasons, Presto Studios is discontinuing software development. Whacked! for the Xbox will be the last […]

The 45 MB Broken Sword 3 teaser video has been converted to a 15 MB DivX file and can be downloaded at GamesWeb. Don’t miss our extensive preview of the game soon!

Adventure fans have been tracking the progress of Broken Sword 3: The Sleeping Dragon for many months, but Revolution Software’s ambitious project has now officially been premiered to the gaming press at the ECTS games show in London. As Charles Cecil set forth in a presentation, Broken Sword 3 presents an important evolution from the […]