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This Week in PC Games: February 21-27

by John Callaham Feb 21st 2011 @ 8:00AM

For the next six weeks, PC gamers will experience a flood of new game titles across many genres. The overflow of games begins this week with a WWII RTS game, a long awaited adventure title, a MMO expansion pack and a first person shooter co-developed by two well known FPS game studios.

Bulletstorm - People Can Fly and Epic Games collaborated on this sci-fi pulp themed shooter that has a bunch of ragtag soldiers stranded on a planet filled with enemies both great and small. The game has players perform combos with their weapons called "Skillshots" and is generally very over-the-top in terms of its violence and its sense of humor.

Gallery: Bulletstorm Screenshots

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Filed under: Adventure, FPS, MMO, Sandbox, Simulation, Bulletstorm

Gray Matter to be published in US by Viva Media in February; Black Mirror 2 and 3, too

by John Callaham Jan 11th 2011 @ 1:00PM

While the game was released via digital download last October, the official US version of the long awaited adventure game Gray Matter will finally reach US retail stores in February. Publisher Viva Media is taking on the US distribution duties for the game which was designed by Gabriel Knight creator Jane Jensen. The game shipped out in Europe in late 2010

In related news, Viva Media also announced today that it will released two more European adventure game imports to the US. The horror-adventure themed games Black Mirror 2 and Black Mirror 3 will also be released sometime in February.

Download Gray Matter Demo (1.6 GB)

Gallery: Gray Matter Screenshots

Filed under: Adventure

Download: Gray Matter Demo

by Steven Wong Nov 29th 2010 @ 1:30PM

This is the playable demo for Gray Matter, a new supernatural themed point-and-click puzzle adventure game from author Jane Jensen (best known as the creator of the Gabriel Knight series). The demo includes the tutorial and all of chapter 3, where the player takes control of of Dr. David Styles. Continue reading after the jump to read the system requirements.

"Neurobiologist Dr. David Styles is one of the game`s central characters: since losing his wife in a horrible accident some several years ago, he has become a recluse, seldom leaving Dread Hill House, his English country estate. When student and part-time street performer Samantha Everett shows up at his doorstep, she unexpectedly becomes his assistant. Hailing from America, she has been travelling through most of Europe the last couple years. Her first task: finding six test subjects at Oxford University for one of Styles` experiments. The experiment starts off innocently enough, but then inexplicable incidents start mounting.

Players control both Dr. David Styles and Samantha Everett in their bid to uncover the secrets and find out the truth. Gray Matter tackles questions concerning the nature of reality and the power of the human mind in constructing the world we take for granted."

Download Gray Matter Demo (1.6 GB)

Gallery: Gray Matter Screenshots

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Filed under: Downloads, Demos, Adventure

Gray Matter finally available via download

by John Callaham Nov 16th 2010 @ 12:00PM

Gray Matter is the long awaited adventure game from the creative mind of Jane Jensen, the creator of the classic Gabriel Knight series. The title has gone through several years of development and apparently more than one developer. While a local box version of the game is apparently still due for release in 2011, you can now download the German version of the game now at the Gamer Unlimited web site.

While it's made for German audiences, there is an English voice-over track so it should be OK to play for a US audience. It cost 39.95 euros to download the title which lets players control two characters, Dr. David Styles and his assistant Samantha Everett. They are conducting some kind of experiment but soon, odd stuff begins to happen ...

[Via Rock Paper Shotgun]

Filed under: Adventure

Gray Matter delayed (again) to February 2011

by John Callaham Oct 11th 2010 @ 10:00AM

A game that has suffered through numerous release date delays is dealing with yet another one. Gray Matter, the adventure game designed by Jane Jensen, who created the classic Gabriel Knight titles, won't be released this month as previously announced. Instead, the game is now due for release on February 25 for both the PC and Xbox 360.

In a press release this morning, the game's UK publisher Lace Mamba Global announced that while the game's development team has been working "extremely hard" to finish Gray Matter for an October release but in the end it was felt that there was "no alternative" but to push the game's release date back yet again. The press release cited the "need for more polishing" as the reason for the delay.

Filed under: Adventure

E3 2010: Gray Matter to be released in October?

by John Callaham Jun 21st 2010 @ 2:00PM

One of the most anticipated adventure games in recent years has been Gray Matter, which features the promised return to the genre of Jane Jensen, the creator of the classic Gabriel Knight series. The game has suffered through many delays since it was first announced including switching developers in mid-stream.

Now our sister site Joystiq, in a report from last week's E3 2010, states that Gray Matter's publisher dtp Entertainment has now put its foot down and declared that Gray Matter is slated for a release sometime this October. Considering the number of times this game has had its release date pushed back, this goes under the "We will believe it when we see it" category.

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Filed under: Adventure

Countdown to E3 2010: The Other PC Games We Want To See

by John Callaham Jun 10th 2010 @ 8:00PM

In just five days the exhibit halls will open and E3 2010 will officially begin. Big Download has been going over what PC games we want to see at the show in terms of first person shooters, action games and RPG-MMO titles. Now we conclude our preview with a look at the strategy, driving and other games we most want to check out on the E3 show floor.

Once again we have to point out that perhaps the biggest PC game release of 2010, Blizzard's StarCraft II, won't be on the show floor. However there are plenty of other major PC games that will be there next week.

Continue reading Countdown to E3 2010: The Other PC Games We Want To See

Filed under: Features, Adventure, Driving, Puzzle

Gray Matter now scheduled for fourth quarter 2010 release

by John Callaham Apr 28th 2010 @ 11:00AM

The last time we got an update on the long-in-development adventure game Gray Matter it was supposed to be released in March 2010. Obviously it missed that deadline. Now the game's publisher dtp Entertainment has announced that the title will be released sometime in the fourth quarter of this year.

The announcement (which also reveals an Xbox 360 release for the game in addition to the PC) gives out some details of the game's actual storyline which was developed by Jane Jensen, the creator of the classic Gaberial Knight series. You will be controlling two characters in the game, Dr. David Styles and his assistant Samantha Everett. They are conducting some kind of an experiment but, as the press release states, ". . . soon strange things start happening."

[Via email press release]

Filed under: Adventure

Gray Matter now due for release in March 2010

by John Callaham Oct 6th 2009 @ 4:00PM

It's been a long time since we have had any real updates on Gray Matter, the upcoming adventure game designed by Gabriel Knight creator Jane Jensen. Today the game's publisher dtp Entertainment announced that the game will not make its 2009 release time frame and will now be coming out in March 2010.

The game itself was first announced over three years ago but the game suffered through a change in its developers in its creation. In early 2008 it was announced that Wizarbox had taken over as the development team for a planned 2009 release. Today's press release, in addition to announcing a new release date for Gray Matter, revealed that the voice over work for the game, supervised by Jensen, has been completed.

Filed under: Adventure

Adventure icon Jane Jensen starts Gray Matter blog

by Xav de Matos Sep 15th 2008 @ 4:00PM

Adventure game fans require no introduction to Jane Jensen. As the creator of the Gabriel Knight series Jensen has solidified her place in the annals of adventure game history. In a new blog Jensen revealed her latest title, Gray Matter, has been delayed while new developer Wizarbox reworks the infrastructure established by the previous team. Jensen's blog, creatively titled Jane's Blog, will detail the development cycle of Gray Matter and will be used as a launch pad for new information and media assets. Adventure gamers take note of the first post which includes a handful of exciting concept art and storyboard scenes.

Filed under: Adventure, Concept art