Latest Adventure Games News

An English language demo has been released for Wicked Studios' debut game, Keepsake. The download is about 220MB and can be found at Gamer's Hell.

An adventure game titled Osawar Tantei Ozawa Rina is in development for the Nintendo DS. It is of the pure point-and-click variety, featuring handdrawn backgrounds combined with pre-rendered 3D characters. It has an interesting art style that appears very different from other DS adventures like Another Code and Phoenix Wright.

From famine to feast in a few mere hours, adventure fans have been treated to three separate movie trailers released today.

For gamers who just can't warm up to a download, or for those stuck with hopeless dial-up connection speeds, Telltale Games is offering some welcome news. Today the developer announced that a packaged version of Out from Boneville is now available.

Himalaya Studios is looking for help beta testing the western-themed Al Emmo and the Lost Dutchman's Mine. Although this is Himalaya's first commercial game, you may be familiar with the team's work from their fan-made King's Quest 1 and 2 remakes.

In an announcement that is sure to please many North American adventure gamers, The Adventure Company has revealed plans to ship Crime Stories on March 14. Never heard of it? That's because up until now, the game has been known as Martin Mystère: Operation Dorian Gray. It was released with this title in the United Kingdom and other parts of Europe last year, and until today's announcement, prospects of a North American release appeared grim.

Nobilis announced today that the upcoming Da Vinci Experience has been renamed The Secrets of Da Vinci: The Forbidden Manuscript. The game is nearing completion and will be released in April 2006. Nobilis holds the game's worldwide publishing rights.

The Adventure Company has posted an online questionnaire to gather information from purchasers of And Then There Were None. In exchange for participating, each respondent receives a 15% discount for The Adventure Company's online store.

Lighthouse Interactive released today a trailer from Keepsake, their upcoming fantasy adventure. The trailer ticks in at 48Mb, and gives an introduction to the mystery of the medieval magic school of Dragonvale.

A German demo was recently released for the comedy adventure Ankh. With the full game already available in Germany, this appeared at first to be a case of the rich getting richer, and the rest of the world still locked out. Not so, however. The demo includes a hidden treasure in English if you know where to look.

The Adventure Company announced today that the North American release date for their upcoming Keepsake has been moved from March to February. The Canadian fantasy adventure has already been released in Germany, and is also scheduled for a UK release in February.

Funcom made a somewhat surprising announcement today in revealing that Aspyr Media will be the North American publisher for Dreamfall, the highly-anticipated sequel to The Longest Journey.

Fans of horror-themed adventures got some welcome news confirmed today, as Got Game Entertainment announced that it will be publishing Scratches in North America. Developed for PC, the game is scheduled for release on March 1, 2006, and will retail for $19.99 (USD).

Having watched Keepsake already release in Germany, and with a UK release scheduled for February, North Americans starving for a fantasy adventure have been getting impatient for news of a local publishing deal. Although the wait for the game will last a little longer, the news has at last arrived that The Adventure Company will be publishing the game in North America.

While waiting for Episode 4 of AGON from Hungarian developer Private Moon Studios, people may have begun wondering if we'd seen the last of Professor Hunt and his quest to track down twelve accursed games. Fortunately, while sliding the projected release date back to March or April for The Lost Sword of Toledo, the next "bigger, longer and more detailed" installment, the company has also announced that they'll be releasing a CD-ROM collection of the first three episodes worldwide. Called the Mysterious Codex, the collection will be released by Viva Media in North America, and by Micro Application in French territories in the first quarter of 2006. Although not yet finalized, negotiations are ongoing for a release elsewhere in Europe for the same time period.