Adventure Gamers News

Demo takes shape ahead of Carol Reed's Black Circle | news

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:28:52 -0600

With the release of the sixth Carol Reed mystery approaching fast, MDNA Games has now released a playable demo of Black Circle. Her latest adventure sees the amateur detective tackling another murder mystery in Sweden. This time, her neighbour recounts a story of a dead body he discovered that somehow disappeared while he left to fetch the police. The police don't believe the elderly...

First teaser looking bright for Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove | news

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:52:20 -0600

With last year's Return to Ravenhearst, Big Fish Games moved its popular Mystery Case Files hidden object game series noticeably into the more traditional adventure realm. With the latest installment, Dire Grove, the series seems poised to make the next leap, as hinted in the game's teaser released today.

Nicolas Eymerich, Inquisitor to make grand adventure debut next year | news

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:10:51 -0600

Adventure gamers have run into a Grand Inquisitor before, but unlike the days of Zork, this time players will become one themselves in Nicolas Eymerich, Inquisitor: The Plague, a new Italian adventure now in production. The medieval adventure co-created by Koala Games and Imagimotion casts players in the dual roles of Nicolas Eymerich and his partner, friar Jacinto Corona....

Gina Timmins stars in latest Twist of Fate trailer | news

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:46:23 -0600

There�s plenty of new Runaway content on display today, as another new trailer has been released, and the website for A Twist of Fate has been thoroughly updated. The new trailer features Gina Timmins, a playable character for the first time in the upcoming third instalment. In the video, which starts at the funeral of Brian Basco, we get to see familiar faces as well as some...

Secrets exposed in Return to Mysterious Island 2 for mobiles | news

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:08:32 -0600

Having an iPhone handy in case you get stranded is always a good idea, and never has that been more true than today's mobile release of Secrets of the Mysterious Island, which deserts players once again on the South Pacific island once inhabited by Captain Nemo. Despite its new title, Secrets is really the iPhone/iPod Touch version of Return to Mysterious Island 2: Mina's...

HMH Interactive declared insolvent in Germany | news

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:58:23 -0600
We've grown accustomed to Germany being the hotbed of the adventure genre in recent years, but today's alarming news shows that economic cracks are beginning to form even there. As previously announced on the German game site Adventure-Treff, a report published (also in German) on GamesMarkt...

Free game cracking news for Wallace & Gromit's 20th anniversary | news

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:31:09 -0600
Telltale have teamed up with Aardman Animations to give away a full free episode of Wallace & Gromit�s Grand Adventures this week to celebrate the duo�s 20th anniversary. The episode being offered is the third in the series, Muzzled!, in which con man Monty Muzzle tries to trick the inhabitants of West Wallaby street by staging a fraudulent fundraiser for a local dog shelter....

Drawn: The Painted Tower now looming on store shelves | news

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:03:31 -0600
Remember when they used to make boxed PC games? Well, Focus Multimedia is still doing it, today releasing Drawn: The Painted Tower to stores in the UK. Previously available only through digital distribution, the casual adventure from Big Fish Games is a radical departure from the company's previous hidden object-based offerings, giving players a "lite" but largely traditional adventure....

Chronicles of Mystery: Curse of the Ancient Temple unleashed on DS | news

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:03:01 -0600
City Interactive has today released Chronicles of Mystery: Curse of the Ancient Temple in North America for the Nintendo DS. In Curse of the Ancient Temple, young archeologist Sylvie Leroux heads to France at the request of her famous historian uncle, only to find he has mysteriously disappeared. Players must help Sylvie to decipher clues to the secrets of the Knights Hospitaller...

3 Cards to Dead Time demo now at hand | news

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:17:34 -0500
There's good news and bad news when it comes to 3 Cards to Dead Time, the story-driven casual game sequel to 3 Cards to Midnight. The good news is, you can play it now! The bad news for those anxiously awaiting the previously-targeted Halloween deadline, for now you'll have to make do with a playable demo. All Hallow's Eve does figure prominently in the story, however. In 1929,...