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 new ones, along with a brief glimpse of the kind of scrapes Gina will get herself into.



To learn more about A Twist of Fate, you’ll find a wealth of information on the official website, and be sure to check out our recent preview.

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 Fate, released earlier this year on PC. In the game, a young woman named Mina and her simian buddy Jep seem poised to be rescued, but disaster strikes and players find themselves back where they started, fighting for survival. This time, however, the entire island's survival is at stake, as a green gas cloud begins to poison the plant and animal life, and only the two protagonists can stop it.

The roughly 700 MB mobile version includes a special feature that "allows you to navigate in the game both with the fingers touching the screen but also using the compass and the accelerometer to explore and turn in the 360° view."

Secrets of the Myserious Island is available at the Apple App Store for $6.99. For more information about the PC original, be sure to check out our review of the game.

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 reveals that HMH Interactive has today declared itself "insolvent".

According to the report, disappointing financial results in the past year, particularly the third quarter, forced the move by the publisher of the acclaimed Book of Unwritten Tales and Deck13's upcoming adventure, Haunted. The small Hamburg-based company also cited high development costs and increased sales and marketing expenses as factors in their troubles.

It remains to be seen what the future of HMH holds, however, as it's unknown at this time if an insolvency plan can still salvage the company. Requests to the publisher for comment were not immediately returned. The news also raised potential doubt about the planned English language releases of HMH's Treasure Island and Book of Unwritten Tales, but The Adventure Company has confirmed that both games will still be released as planned in the coming months.

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. Gromit knows his his intentions aren’t genuine, however, so it’s up to him to save the day.

That isn’t the only good news for Wallace & Gromit fans, all four episodes will be available for the first time on Xbox LIVE Arcade starting today, at a cost of 800 Microsoft Points each.

Telltale is also now accepting orders for the Grand Adventures Collector’s DVD, which features all the episodes, behind the scenes videos and a gallery from the making of the game. As before, the cost to those who already ordered the season’s downloads is just the price of shipping.

For those who haven’t yet played the games, this week the full season is on sale for $20, and donations from each sale will go to the Wallace & Gromit Children's Foundation and Penny Arcade's Child's Play charities.

The free episode can be downloaded directly from Telltale until November 9th.

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. Players are tasked with reaching the child princess at the top of the tower, overcoming the many obstacles and puzzling challenges by entering the magical paintings discovered along the way.



Called the "first installment of the Drawn story" by its developers, there are sequels expected at some point, so there's no better time to get caught up if you missed the game originally, or were holding out for a full retail version until now. The game will be available in all major UK retailers at a cost of £9.78 (including VAT).

For additional information about Drawn: The Painted Tower, be sure to check out our review of the game.