The film "Inkheart," in theaters today, hasn't exactly been getting rave reviews – but this half-baked, shallow attempt at a movie-licensed video game adventure only serves to demean the franchise further.
Continue reading...Saturday, December 20, 2008
The original Broken Sword, Shadow of the Templars as it is known, has been ported to almost as many platforms as Myst. Still, you can never have too many ports of a game. At least that's what Ubisoft think, so they have decided to bring it over to the Nintendo Wii, and even the DS. Developed [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 19, 2008
Before the modern first-person shooter taught me the joy of mouselook, I rarely bothered with pointing devices -- compared to a cruddy ball mouse, arrow-keys were so much simpler anyhow. But there was one good reason to clean the crud off my X and Y rollers: point-and-click adventure games. But though I've played a few here [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 30, 2008
The very first entry in Telltale Games' episodic Sam & Max series debuted on the PC, almost exactly two years ago. The premiere episode, Culture Shock, garnered largely positive reviews, walking home with a handful of awards and rekindling gamers' love for the cherished dog & rabbit duo. The series has been on a roll [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Telltale Games is just full of release dates these days. Hot on the heels of Monday's announcement and release of Strong Badia the Free, Telltale issued a press release this afternoon confirming a release date and special pre-order bonus for the Wii version of Sam & Max Season One. The game is due for release [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 25, 2008
If you were cool and/or attractive enough to play the first episode of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, you might have noticed a "sneak peek" option in the game menu that delivered, as promised, a sneak peek at SBCG4AP Episode 2: Strong Badia the Free. If you didn't, well, Telltale Games has you [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 2, 2008
Eurogamer has a few interesting comments from the folks over at LucasArts regarding some of their celebrated games of old. During a recent interview regarding upcoming console shooter Fracture, Lucas representatives were asked about their older games. When could we hope to see re-releases of our favorite classics? Would LucasArts ever try their hands again [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 5, 2008
We test the waters with Jack Keane, a swashbuckling, tea-swilling, ape-fighting adventure game, in our first game review.
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Friday, January 23, 2009
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