In the first part of my Skype conversation with Charles Cecil, Revolution’s acclaimed co-founder talked about his own formative years as a designer, as well as the company’s rise from struggling upstart barely able to make ends meet to one of the most renowned adventure game developers of all time. But there are plenty more […]
Can you believe how time flies? Has it really been a quarter century since Charles Cecil, Noirin Carmody, Tony Warriner and David Sykes joined forces to found Revolution Software? Well, if you can’t imagine it’s been that long, look no further than the recently released Revolution 25th Anniversary Collection as proof. Containing ten of their […]
SassyBot Studio’s , releasing soon for Windows and Xbox One, may or may not be a game—and narrative designer Mata Haggis is okay with that. “We are entirely expecting people to say ‘this isn’t a game,’ and that’s fine. I respect that they feel that way. I’m not even sure I entirely disagree with them,” […]
“Hasn’t everyone in Daventry heard this?” Gwendolyn admonishes her grandfather, King Graham, as he settles in to tell her a bedtime story about how he and his wife first met. “You climbed the tower, rescued Princess Valanice, fell in love, and lived happily ever after.” “Fairy tales have a bad habit of simplifying matters of […]
This month you can go back in time to play a false plague doctor under siege or a Viking in search of a tasty treat. You could also become a spy foiling an evil plot to take over the world, a young man inheriting the family ghost-hunting business, or a prince that loses something very […]
What’s that expression about one man’s trash being another man’s treasure? Well, for adventure gamers, an entire trash has been the source of multiple treasures in Daedalic’s wacky series. The popular comic trilogy came to a fairly definitive ending in the appropriately-named , but in this modern era of reboots, there seems to be no […]
This month you can explore a haunted house in the dark, or your own house in an altered, mirrored version of itself. Venturing a little farther from home, you can seek to end a Viking’s curse in the Mushroom Kingdom, or attempt to survive the Black Plague in 17th century Vienna. These four distinctly different […]
Step aside, Donald Trump. Adventure Gamers is where the voting matters, as it’s time once again for the annual Aggie Awards reader poll! You’ve read our list of 2015 finalists, but now it’s your turn. By casting your ballot, you could just be the difference between your chosen game winning or not. I know you […]
Remember 2015? The year may be gone, but it will most certainly not be forgotten by adventure gamers, thanks once again to a strong field of titles from newcomers and familiar names alike. This was the year we finally got a (complete) new adventure from Tim-freaking-Schafer and a spiritual claymation successor to , but also […]
