Latest Adventure Games News

Adrenaline Vault has reviewed RHEM, giving it a score of 3/5. Here's a clip:

Avault has posted their preview of Rhem, while Frictionless Insight has posted their latest impressions on Uru: Ages Beyond Myst.

GenGamers sends us word that they've posted a batch of screenshots of In Memoriam, a new adventure game to be published by Ubi Soft next month. (Talk about a game coming up out of nowhere.) More information on this game can be found at the official homepage.

Adventurearchiv has just posted a very lengthy and informative interview with Martin Ganteföhr of House of Tales regarding their upcoming adventure game Moment of Silence. All those who are curious about the game will find it a very interesting read.

Developer Future Games has given The Adventure Company the North American rights to publish their game The Black Mirror. The game tells the story of Samuel Gordon, who returns home to England to investigate the death of his grandfather, which he believes was anything but an accident.

Version 0.5.0 of ScummVM has been released. ScummVM lets you play a range of classic adventure games on your modern computer, under a variety of operating systems. Even though the project started out as an interpreter for LucasArts games, it's begun incorporating support for other oldschool graphic adventures. The latest addition to the list of supported games is Beneath a Steel Sky, thanks to Revolution Software supplying the original assembly source code. (Kudos to Revolution for making Beneath a Steel Sky freeware!)

LucasArts has stopped production on Full Throttle: Hell On Wheels, the sequel to the highly acclaimed Full Throttle graphic adventure. It was already suspected that the project wasn't going as smooth as planned. At a recent press event we were told that the game had missed some milestones and that its release would be pushed back further into 2004.

Wyrmkeep Entertainment has re-released Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb, which our Managing Editor Evan Dickens calls "one of the all-time greatest unknown adventures". It's made to run on all operating systems and is sure to delight anyone with a love for classic adventures. Be sure to visit the Wyrmkeep website and download a demo of Inherit the Earth. Any fan of classic adventures will find this game to be $20 well spent!

Dark Fall, the first-person adventure game created by independent developer Johnothan Boakes, has been picked up for publishing by The Adventure Company. "Dark Fall is definitely one of those titles that adventure gamers have been anticipating for a long time," said Richard Wah Kan, CEO of DreamCatcher Interactive. "They won't be disappointed." The retail version of Dark Fall was released in July.

Dtp, the German distributor for many adventure games (such as Tony Tough, Runaway and The Moment of Silence), has today announced the sequel to Runaway. No further information was given besides a Q4 2004 release date.

Syberia is making waves on GameSpot's top ten games list. The list is ranked by popularity of a game according to site traffic, and games from all console platforms are also included. Yesterday Syberia was at #6 overall, ahead of Turok:Evolution for the Xbox and Icewind Dale II and Tron 2.0 for the PC.

Adrenaline Vault has reported that the PC version of the action/adventure Prisoner of War has gone gold. The game is expected in American stores on September 17. To read the full story, check out Adrenaline Vault.

Adrenaline Vault and Game Revolution has put up their previews of the upcoming action/adventure for the Xbox, titled Shenmue II. Here's a clip from the Game Revolution preview: The gameplay sticks to the game plan of the original by focusing on adventure elements in a truly vibrant, fully-functional world. The different NPCs move on their own schedules, and Ryo has the freedom to go after LAN DI or just laze the day away playing Pachinko and arcade games. The game features a functioning day/night cycle, a realistic weather system and more characters to interact with than just about any console game out there. Despite having completed the first game nearly two years ago, I'm still impressed by the game design.

GameSpy has posted word of the latest newsletter by Funcom, makers of The Longest Journey. Its main focus is their massively multiplayer game, Anarchy Online, but they do make mention of TLJ and a potential sequel.

The Official PlayStation Magazine is reporting that the ICO team is currently at work on a sequel to the critically-acclaimed action/adventure game. Apparently, the team recently ran a job-recruitment article in various Japanese magazines with a first shot of the game!