Latest Adventure Games News

With 80 Days currently releasing around the world, a second playable demo of Frogwares' globe-trotting 3D adventure is now making tracks.

After a heart palpitation-inducing announcement of a year-long hiatus for the promising Rise of the Hidden Sun, it seems 'Rattlesnake' Jake Dawson has climbed right back in the saddle.

The eleventh annual IFComp is now over, and the votes have been tallied. Head over to the results page to find out the winners.

A new website, SaveKQIX.Org has been started to work towards the reinstatement of the cancelled King's Quest IX project. The group hopes to prove to Vivendi that there is a huge market for the planned fan-sequel, and that if no official sequel is forthcoming the project should be allowed to continue.

Juniper Games, the independent game developer headed by Steve Ince, has recently announced two new games, Mekapods and Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso. In addition to Juniper Crescent -- The Sapphire Claw, Juniper Games hopes to release all three games over the course of the next two years.

Mac users frequently get left behind in the world of gaming, but not so with RHEM 2. Got Game Entertainment, the North American publisher who released the new puzzle adventure for both PC and Mac on November 1st, has just made a demo available for Macs.

Chris Brendel is at it again. The independent creator of Lifestream and Shady Brook is well into development of his next title, Awaken.

Telltale Games continues to dominate the news this week, as today the company released an updated version of Out from Boneville for download.

Almost two months after their initial sneak preview, Telltale Games has formally announced their Sam & Max adventure game project. Though they're still keeping pretty tight lipped, they have put up a boldly designed Sam & Max mini-site on their page, answering a few questions about the game.What’s the history of the Telltale team with Steve Purcell?

Ubisoft announced today the latest addition to the CSI series, titled 3 Dimensions of Murder. Like the three previous installments, this game will be based on characters and storylines from the TV-series, and will be launched worldwide in the spring of 2006.

The German publisher DTP announced today that Tony Tough 2: A Rake's Progress, which was originally scheduled for release this December, has been delayed and is now due for release in the first quarter of 2006.

Today the UK based game developers, Darkling Room, have officially announced production of The Lost Crown: a ghosthunting adventure.

With the second installment of the ongoing Delaware St. John series nearing completion, developer Big Time Games has released a playable demo of the upcoming game.

That puzzled look on the faces of North American adventure gamers probably means they've recently begun playing RHEM 2, which was released for PC and Mac this week by Got Game Entertainment.

It's been awfully quiet around Riddle of the Sphinx III since it was first heard of, but that is about to change. As reported recently by Just Adventure, the development duo behind the games has negotiated back the rights to Riddle of the Sphinx III from The Adventure Company (as well as the rights to Riddle of the Sphinx I).