Latest Adventure Games News

Frogwares has posted four high-res, never-before-seen in-game screenshots of their upcoming detective adventure. The images can be found here. The upcoming adventure promises: 5 graphically rich levels of the game with 40 different 19th century London locations More than 40 witnesses and 3 hours of dialogs 20 high quality movies including the final explanation of […]

Minutes ago LucasArts announced that they have stopped production on their upcoming adventure game, Sam & Max Freelance Police. LucasArts’ acting General Manager, Michael Nelson, issued the following statement about the game’s cancellation: “After careful evaluation of current market place realities and underlying economic considerations, we’ve decided that this was not the appropriate time to […]

GameSpot has previewed the next game in the CSI franchise, titled CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Dark Motives.   The developers appear to be taking a “if it's not broken, don't fix it” approach to Dark Motives because the gameplay and interface are virtually unchanged from the original game. In fact, you could probably consider Dark […]

GameSpot has released the third in a sequence of designer diaries for High Voltage Software's upcoming Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude. The diaries were each written by a different member of the game's team and have contained relatively little solid information about the game. Apart from giving us some glimpses at Magna Cum Laude's […]

We’ve just received word from Microïds that Syberia II has gone gold (i.e. the master copy is completed and will be sent out for duplication). The game will be shipping in North America on March 24, 2004.

SoundBlaster.com has interviewed Tim Larkin, the Sound Designer and Composer on Uru: Ages Beyond Myst. Game Chronicles has reviewed the same game, giving it an overall score of 8.9. You can find the review here.

Microids has released a demo of Syberia II, as they said they would this past weekend. You can snag the demo from their official site, here. The 85MB demo is available in English, French, Italian, Spanish and German.

Ken Williams has told fans on his website that he has initiated contact with Bruce Hack, who was appointed as VU Games’ new CEO in January. Williams is, of course, the co-founder and former CEO of Sierra, which now sits under the VU Games umbrella. “It has been frustrating to watch a company struggle that […]

Romanian gaming site Jucaushii.ro has just interviewed co-founding White Birds Productions member Michel Bams on the upcoming adventure title Lost Paradise:   “The general narrative setting is Africa. An Africa as in Out of Africa or African Queen… but also with a lot of modernity. As usual in Benoît's stories, the time is not clearly […]

With a new commercial Leisure Suit Larry game in production, you might be crying out to experience the old classics again. But what’s that? A horrible keyboard interface? Sooooo 20th Century! Well, never fear, Larry fans, because you can now play the second game with full point-and-click goodness! With a title that removes any need […]