The Adrenaline Vault’s Bob Mandel discusses the gradually vanishing boundaries between adventure games and first person shooters in his article, “The Convergence of Adventure and FPS Games”: “For most of the last decade, you couldn’t imagine two more opposite computer game genres than adventure titles and first-person shooters. The former traditionally revolved around a lot […]
The Adventure Company has released a new trailer from the upcoming Atlantis: Evolution, showing a minute of new CGI-footage for the upcoming adventure game. 1904. On his way back to New York, Curtis Quick, a young adventurer and photographer, is caught in a vortex that sends him to the heart of the lost city of […]
GameBoomers.com is hosting a 3-day chat with Galilea's Philip Gaude, discussing Jack the Ripper, an adventure game due for release January 27th. Check it out! Be sure to tune in on Adventure Gamers this Tuesday, as we will have an exclusive preview of the same game!
RPGdot has given Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon an overall score of 88% and their RPGDot Gold Award: “Overall, the game was fun, told a great story and may really be a milestone for coming adventures and a new breed of interactive movies. For the next installment, I wish for a little longer playing […]
Award winning composer Inon Zur has created the original music soundtrack for Microid’s upcoming adventure Syberia II. The soundtrack will feature melodic inflections of Eastern Europe mingled with indigenous Eastern tribal music, and cradled in an orchestral foundation. Zur has won awards and critical acclaim for his compositions for such games as Baldur’s Gate II: […]
Legend Entertainment, a credible industry source has stated, has just been shut down by Atari, its parent corporation. No further details are available at this moment, nor is there an official statement. Legend Entertainment was originally an adventure game developer, known for such titles as The Blackstone Chronicles and Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon. Sensing the imminent […]
The Adventure Company has released five new screenshots from Mysterious Journey II: Chameleon. The game has been available on the American market since November last year, but has now also been released on the European market, where it’s titled Schizm II: Chameleon. Also, be sure to read our review of the game.
VU Games has announced its updated European release schedule for two upcoming adventure titles: Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude – (PC, Xbox, PS2) Q3 2004 Fahrenheit – (PC, PS2) Q4 2004
SamAndMax.net has obtained a gorgeous piece of new concept art from the upcoming Sam & Max: Freelance Police. It is not an in-game shot per se, but gives us a good idea at how the office of the heroic duo will appear in the finished product. The brand new art celebrates the site’s reopening after […]
Gaming Nexus has reviewed Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon, giving it a score of 8.0. The voice acting is outstanding. Dialogue is typically forthright when friends are speaking, but our heroes’ interactions with strangers bring about loads of humorous banter. The dry mockery and laugh-out-loud satire had me looking forward to every new conversational […]
