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.
Tierra, the developer of several unofficial remakes of classic Sierra titles, has updated the designer journals on their website. The team is currently working on a remake of King’s Quest 2, so to get the latest update click to their website.
Zelenhgorm, the adventure game from the Swedish developer Moloto, is nearing its release. The game will be available online from Monday September 9th. It is not certain when the game will be released to retail, but Moloto is currently working on the matter. To read the full article, check out EuroGamer.
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.
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”.
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 […]
