Latest Adventure Games News

Revolution Software presented a near-completed Broken Sword 3 at the Sightsonic 2003 festival in York yesterday. Adventure Gamers community resident Theneb was there and brings us news that the game is being released on November 15, and will be advertised in German and French cinemas. Although cinema ads have often been suggested as a tool for marketing adventure games, it's rarely (if ever) been done.

The Adventure Company announced today the shipping of The Black Mirror to North American stores.

Adventurecorner posted today the first video preview of The Moment of Silence. The video, which is entirely in German, shows the upcoming adventure currently in the works over at House of Tales, and is taken at a presentation at this year's Games Convention in Leipzig.

The official Syberia II website has posted some new wallpapers from their upcoming adventure sequel, scheduled for release next year.

Uru Obsession has just reported that the offline portion of Cyan Worlds' Uru: Ages Beyond Myst has just reached gold master stage and will now be handled by UbiSoft for duplication and packaging, positioning it within schedule for its November 11 release. No details yet on the online portion, but check back soon for more news.

Ubi Soft today released new info on the upcoming adventure In Memoriam. The game, which has won the SACD award (French Society of Authors and Composers of Dramatic Works) for Interactive Creation, is scheduled for an European release on October 16th.

GenGamers has just presented the latest screens from Uru: Ages Beyond Myst, the Cyan Worlds adventure to be released by UbiSoft next month.

We have uploaded new screenshots for many of The Adventure Company's upcoming games. You can visit the gallery pages below to view the screenshot galleries (number of new screenshots are in parenthesis).

Worthplaying has just released more new screenshots from the upcoming Fenimore Fillmore: The Westerner, a western themed adventure game being developed by Revistronic Media.

We've posted seven new screenshots of Uru: Ages Beyond Myst. The screenshots in this batch are from the Garden Age of the game.

The president of LucasArts, Simon Jeffery, has abruptly resigned, says the LA Times. A LucasArts spokesperson could not comment on who will replace Jeffery, nor on his motivation for resigning.

A press release from UbiSoft announced that world reknowned artist and musician Peter Gabriel will be providing original music for the upcoming adventure game Uru: Ages Beyond Myst. Gabriel will contribute his song 'Burn You Up, Burn You Down' for the November release of Uru, but will also create the original soundtrack for the next game in the Myst series.

Private Moon Studios has released an interactive demo of the first episode of their episodic adventure AGON. This demo will give players a taste of the games features and format.

A 99MB playable demo for the upcoming Journey to the Center of the Earth is now available at Gamer's Hell. Loosely based on the Jules Verne novel, Journey to the Center of the Earth will be shipped to stores on October 6.

Ugarte's Dimension of Fantasy has posted an interview with Lori Ann Cole and Corey Cola, the designers behind the Quest for Glory series. Here's an excerpt: