Adventure

Is Tales of Monkey Island's final episode going to make you cry?

Posted Nov 18th 2009 3:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, Adventure

Telltale Games' first "season" in its episodic adventure game Tales of Monkey Island is getting ready for its fifth and final chapter, Rise of the Pirate God. Today, Telltale announced the final chapter will be released for PC via download on December 8 and they hint that the game's lead character could meet with a nasty fate.

Yes, Guybrush Threepwood could be no more in this concluding chapter and even Telltale's Dave Grossman seems to think there's no hope for our pirate hero. In Telltale's press release announcing Rise of the Pirate God, he says, "It's a great tragedy to see such a productive life seemingly cut off prematurely. And I'm not just saying that because he owes me money." We won't have long to find out if he's correct. In the meantime the first four individual chapters in the series are now on sale at Telltale's web site.

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Mini-sales going on today in PC game land

Posted Nov 16th 2009 4:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, Adventure, FPS, Multiplayer

It's Monday but don't let that throw you; there might still be one or two sales for PC games that you can take advantage of. In fact, we know there are because we've spotted them for you. Have a look, have a lookers:

GoG.com has their regular weekly mini-sale of one of their titles. Today the game they have chosen is In Cold Blood, the retro adventure game from Revolution Software. You can get the game for one week only for just $4.99, a $1 off its already low price.
This is a sale that we missed posting about but you still have some time to grab it. Direct2Drive has Joint Operations Combined Arms Gold (combining the Joint Operations FPS and its expansion pack from Novalogic) on sale for just $5 compared to its normal $29.99 price tag. The sale is supposed to end today. Another sale on the site is for Crayon Physics Deluxe which will be sold at just $9.95 from now until Sunday.
Steam is selling all of the Luxor games for 70 percent off each.You can also get the Luxor Complete Pack bundle with all six Luxor games for 50 percent off.

Frictional Games gives next game an official title: Amnesia The Dark Decent

Posted Nov 14th 2009 5:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Adventure

Frictional Games, the development team behind the interesting Penumbra horror-adventure game series, have been working for some time on their next project. Previously the game was under the working title of Unknown. Now the developers have revealed the official title of the game: Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

They have also launched the game's official web site and posted up a brief gameplay trailer via YouTube which you can check out after the jump. As one might expect from the title your playable character is apparently put in a situation where he doesn't know who he is or how he got into a strange home. The game is due for release for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms sometime in 2010.

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Download: King's Bounty: Armored Princess Demo

Posted Nov 12th 2009 12:30PM by Steven Wong
Filed under: Downloads, Demos, Adventure, Strategy

This is the playable demo for King's Bounty: Armored Princess, an adventure strategy game and follow-up to King's Bounty: The Legend. System requirements are shown after the jump.

"King's Bounty: Armored Princess is an adventure game with tactical turn-based battles and RPG elements unfolding in a rich fantasy world. The character and their army of companions travel across a huge continent, visiting dozens of different locations all connected to each other. Communicating with NPCs, collecting resources and recruiting an army, the player will control their character in real-time mode, while all battles take place in classic turn-based mode with a strong emphasis on tactical elements."

Download King's Bounty: Armored Princess Demo (467 MB)

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Wallace and Gromit game sale from Telltale extended

Posted Nov 12th 2009 12:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, Adventure

Last week, in order to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the first Wallace and Gromit cartoon, developer Telltale Games announced that their four episode adventure game series Wallace and Gromit's Grand Adventures would have a temporary price cut from $34.95 to just 20 bucks.

Welll if you missed out on the sale, don't fret because as it turns out you haven't missed a thing. Telltale has announced that the $20 sale on the Wallace and Gromit game series has in fact been extended. There's no word yet on how long this sale extension will last but if we were you (and trust us, that's a scary concept) we would act quickly before Telltale decides to pull the plug.

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GoG.com adds Sanitarium to game line up

Posted Nov 10th 2009 3:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, Adventure

Sometimes you just want to get away from everything. For some people that means a vacation to Vale or Fiji or Chesnee, South Carolina. For others it means a trip to their local mental hospital. DRM-free game download site GoG.com has an example of the latter as it has added the horror adventure game Sanitarium to its line up.

The game, first released in 1998 from developer DreamForge Entertainment, has your game character as an asylum patient who has survived a car crash but naturally has lost his memory and has no idea of who he is. Your character has to explore various world and find out what is real and what is inside his mind. You can go slightly mad yourself if you grab the game from GoG.com, with a free soundtrack, for $9.99.

Rumor: A adventure game based on Minesweeper?

Posted Nov 8th 2009 1:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Adventure

It's one of the biggest time sinks that people who work in offices on PCs know so well. It's a game so addictive that some companies and governments have tried to ban folks from playing it at work. It's Minesweeper, which is perhaps the first true casual PC game.

Now comes word that a full adventure game based on Minesweeper may be in the works. G4TV reports that Revolution Software, the creators of the Broken Sword series, are developing such a project. According to the article the game is being developed by giving it real characters and a back story as to why the mines are there. This report uses a source that is not from Revolution Software so we are putting this in a "rumor" file until the developer makes it official.

Still, it's a bold concept. What's next? A game that has a back story for Solitaire?

GameTap adds Still Life 2 to line-up

Posted Nov 6th 2009 3:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, Adventure

The subscription-download hybrid PC game site GameTap has added yet another title to its list of games people can play with one monthly paid subscription. This time the game is Still Life 2, the recently released "M" rated adventure game from publisher Microids. It's a sequel to the 2005 original Still Life which itself was a sequel to a previous 2003 released adventure game Post Mortem.

Still hanging around GameTap's free game selection this week is the American McGee's Grimm chapter Master Thief. It will stay in the free section of the game site until this coming Thursday where it will be replaced with a currently unannounced game.

Steam gets Earthworm Jim PC games and other additions

Posted Nov 5th 2009 2:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, Action, Adventure

Valve's Steam PC game download service has added a classic character to its library. Earthworm Jim, the weird but cool action game mascot of the now defunct Shiny Entertainment, is now available to download via Steam in a bundle that contains the original game, Earthworm Jim 2 and Earthworm 3D. The bundle costs $19.99 and is the only way to get the games via Steam; they are not sold separately.

In different but related news, Steam has added the three Massive Assault strategy games from Order of War developer Wargaming.net to the service. You can get each game (Massive Assault, Massive Assault: Phantom Renaissance, and Massive Assault Network 2) separately or all three in a bundle package for $59.99. The bundle saves you $29.98 if you bought each game on its own.

Finally Steam has added the recent adventure game Fatale and the action shooter Doom Rails to its library.

Celebrate Wallace and Gromit's 20th anniversary with free game

Posted Nov 4th 2009 7:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, Adventure

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the release of A Grand Day Out!, the very first animated short subject starring Wallace and Gromit. To celebrate the folks at Telltale Games have decided to offer one of the four chapters in their recent episodic adventure game series Wallace and Gromit's Grand Adventures for free download. The chapter, Muzzled, will be free to download until 3 pm ET on Monday.

Also the entire four episode "season" of the series has been discounted to just $20 for the duration as well and part of the proceeds will go to either the UK-based with Wallace & Gromit Children's Foundation or the US-based Penny Arcade's Child's Play. Pre-orders for the DVD collector's version of the game series, with lots of extras, are being taken now and will ship out in December.
Download the Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures Demo (138 MB)

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Diagnosis Murder game announced (and no we are not kidding)

Posted Nov 3rd 2009 9:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Adventure, Casual

Ok, we can see the appeal of a Murder, She Wrote game for a few people out there. The show lasted a long time on CBS and the character of Jessica Fletcher is almost iconic. But we have to draw a line in the sand somewhere and that line was crossed today with the announcement of a Diagnosis Murder PC game.

For those of you who are under 50 (most of you) this CBS show ran almost under the radar for several years with Dick Van Dyke as a doctor who loved to solve murders. It also gave employement to his son Barry Van Dyke who played his son in the show. Merscom is developing this title as a "hidden object" style mystery-adventure game for release in early 2010. So what's next? Jake and The Fatman?

More CBS shows are on the way to the casual game space, by the way, including a previously announced Ghost Whisperer title (due in early 2010) and a recently announced Criminal Minds game, (due in late 2010). Both games are being developed by Legacy Interactive.

CSI: Deadly Intent trailer uncovers the perfect crime

Posted Oct 29th 2009 10:30AM by Steven Wong
Filed under: Downloads, Adventure, Trailers

CSI: Deadly Intent is available now for the PC, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, and Nintendo DS handheld system.

"In CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Deadly Intent, players help solve Las Vegas' most gruesome crimes with the brand new characters and cast from the latest season of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. The video game features five shocking cases written with CSI: Crime Scene Investigation television writers. Exclusive features to CSI: Deadly Intent – The Hidden Cases for the Nintendo DS system allows players to solve additional bizarre cases through an enhanced questioning system and game mechanics with unique touch game play. Players will feel like a real CSI character with heart-pounding interrogations, stylish visuals and a unique story structure that unveils the shocking truth when all the cases are linked together."

Download HD CSI: Deadly Intent Launch Trailer (269 MB)
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Children to benefit from Telltale's Wallace and Gromit game collection

Posted Oct 28th 2009 8:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Adventure

Telltale Games completed the four chapter adventure game Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures earlier this year and next month Telltale will collect the episodic series into a Collector's DVD with lots of extra features. One of those extra features will let people help two children's charities.

Telltale announced today that from November 4-8 part of the proceeds from the collector's DVD will go to either the Wallace & Gromit Children's Foundation in the UK or the Child's Play charity in the US. The $34.95 DVD will include image galleries, a behind-the-scenes video and the Cracking Contraption animated shorts that show off Wallace's crazy inventions. Telltale also states to look for more Wallace and Gromit news on November 3.

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Fourth Tales of Monkey Island chapter due on Friday

Posted Oct 28th 2009 6:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, Adventure

Last week we reported that Telltale Games was planning to release the fourth chapter in their LucasArts published adventure game Tales of Monkey Island this week. Now Telltale has narrowed that release date down, saying the fourth installment in the series will be released on Friday.

Telltale has also served up some advanced screenshots from the fourth chapter, titled The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood. In this Law and Order-ish episode our favorite ship captain has to defend himself in court against false charges and an "smooth-talking prosecutor". With just one more chapter left in the series, can Guybrush escape the long arm of the law? We have our money on him but we could be wrong . . .

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Broken Sword developer working on unnamed adventure game

Posted Oct 27th 2009 8:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Adventure

If you like adventure games, the name Charles Cecil means a lot. The head of UK-based Revolution Software helped to create the classic Broken Sword series of games along with Beneath A Steel Sky, a sci-fi adventure game with artwork by Watchmen co-creator Dave Gibbons. That latter game has recently been re-released on the iPhone.

Now Eurogamer reports the Cecil is ready to dip his hand back into making games again (his last original game was helping with the design of the 2K Games-published adaptation of The DaVinci Code movie in 2006). Speaking at tthe Eurogamer Expo he states, "All I can say is, I am working with Dave Gibbons and we're working on a new adventure game." That's all he would admit to although he did add, "I love writing and playing adventure games and that is what I'm going to stick to."