Latest Adventure Games News

The Belgian site SpelletjesGarnaal has posted a new movie of the upcoming 3D action/adventure from Ubi Soft, titled Largo Winch. The video comes in downloadable (12.6 MB) and streaming Windows Media Player format, and offers eight minutes of gameplay footage.

Just Adventure's Harriet Gurganus has an interview with Sli-soft, developers of an upcoming game, codenamed Game X. The interview covers various topics, ranging from the motivation behind their title and its development, to the creator's opinion on the important elements of an adventure game. Do you have any heroes in the game development arena? Who are they? What do you view as special about them or their games?

Four Fat Chicks has reviewed the Game Boy Advance version of Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars, giving it high praise. The only major issue taken was with a couple of plot-stopping bugs that could potentially mar your enjoyment of this PC conversion.

The English demo of this year's most anticipated adventure game has been released. It is a playable demo and the file size is 103 MB, so hopefully you have a broadband connection. What are you waiting for? Download and see what all the hype is about!

Mixnmojo.com has posted an interview with Ron Gilbert on his classic adventure games and his latest project, Hulabee Entertainment. Ron Gilbert is, as most of you know, the creator of adventure game classics, such as Maniac Mansion, The Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. Here's an excerpt:I know that Humongous licensed SCUMM, a graphic adventure engine that you helped create at LucasArts, to make its games. Will Hulabee also license SCUMM, or are you using something else? We created a new development system. SCUMM was a fantastic system, but it's going on 15 years old and was staring to show it's age. The new system is much more flexible and able to grow as technology grows. Plus it was just a lot of fun to be able to start over and code everything from scratch. I had gotten out of programming for a while, so it was fun to get back into it.

Jazz and Faust, the adventure game from the Russian developer 1C, has just begun shipping to stores in North America. In Jazz and Faust, the adventure gamers are given the chance to explore 80 locations in a 3D world based on the ancient East. Players are given the chance to take on the role as either Jazz or Faust, making them able to explore the world from two different perspectives. Watch Adventure Gamers, as we will have a review of the game soon.

German site Justgamers has reviewed Simon the Sorcerer 3D, giving it a score of 58 percent. As my German is a little rusty (understatement of the of the century), I'll pass on a summary of the article. Be sure to check out the handful of screenshots they included, though.

Adventure-Archiv has reviewed Simon the Sorcerer 3D, giving it a rating of 68 percent. On the plus side, the reviewer felt the game was funny, with good puzzles and more than enough gameplay. However, there is also mention of frustrating action sequences and far-too-huge worlds to explore.

As Jazz & Faust is about to hit the stores in America, 1C Company has told us of another adventure game they hope to release outside Russia. Clay Agent is, as the name implies, a game with claymation graphics. If you remember the The Neverhood you'll know how well it works for a comedy adventure game. There haven't been any claymation games since The Neverhood because, well, animating a character frame-by-frame is simply a painfully slow process. Still, Clay Agent has over 30 scenes full of hilarious animations. Although we still can't post any images on the site, you can check out this review on a Polish website which has a dozen of them in a gallery. Update: We've been told they actually have publishers for Clay Agent in Eastern Europe and Italy.

Quandary has posted an extensive list of Detective-style adventure games--everything from Black Dahlia to Tex Murphy to Spy Fox. Each game comes complete with a short description and a link to their respective review. If you're ever in the mood for a little investigating, be sure to check this out.

IGN.com has a preview of Syberia, the highly anticipated adventure game. There really isn't any new information, but it's worth checking out, nonetheless.The whole game is based around these brilliant and sometimes bizarre wind-up toys. Even the train that this lawyer travels around through the game is wind up. So sometimes when you stop, you'll need to figure out how to get the train wound up again to progress further into the game. The designers are endeavoring to integrate each puzzle as tightly as possible within the story. No more incongruous puzzles for you, nosiree.

Got Game Entertainment has announced that The Watchmaker began shipping this week. "The Watchmaker is destined to join the ranks of classic adventure games. For adventure game fans, old and new, this is the one you've been waiting for," said Got Game Entertainment President, Howard Horowitz, in a press release that was issued today. "Actually, this is a game for anyone who is a fan of mystery, intrigue, and loads of entertainment."

LucasGames has posted an interview, conducted during E3, with LucasArts' President Simon Jeffery and Public Relations Manager Tom Sarris. The interview covers such topics as changes to the company since Jeffery joined on, Full Throttle 2, and the "50/50" objective.