Tag Archives: Adventure

Day of the Tentacle remastered

Dr. Fred’s mutated purple tentacle is about to take over the world, and only you can stop him. Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is a mind-bending, time travel, cartoon puzzle adventure game in which three unlikely friends work together to prevent an evil mutated purple tentacle from taking over the world. Continue reading Day of the Tentacle remastered

UNSUNG STORY -for now being put on hold

On paper, Unsung Story sounds like one of my dream Kickstarters. It is, or perhaps was, a new tactical RPG “envisioned by” Yasumi Matsuno, director of Final Fantasy Tactics. His name, and a few others including talented translator/localiser Alexander O. Smith, is likely the reason backers forked out over $660,000 for the Kickstarter back in 2014. Playdek is the company developing it, however, and their Kickstarter updates have become increasingly infrequent over the last couple of years. Continue reading UNSUNG STORY -for now being put on hold

New Skywind Trailer

Skywind is a very big, very ambitious modding project that seeks to bring the whole of Morrowind, the land of The Elder Scrolls III, into the newer, prettier realm of Skywind, also known as The Elder Scrolls V—or, more precisely, the Creation Engine that drives it. It’s been in development for well over three years now, and as the new “Envision” trailer reveals, it’s come a long way. Continue reading New Skywind Trailer

THE WITNESS review

Seven years is a long time to speculate , but despite Jonathan Blow and his team at Thekla revealing few details expectations for this game have remained high. After all, remained high. After all, the company’s showing what video games could be.legendary platform adventure Braid was important not only for its role in the rise of independent games but for showing what video games could be. Continue reading THE WITNESS review

TORMENT:TIDES OF NUMENERA

After the Torment: Tides of Numenera beta was delayed past the end of last year, a forum post by inXile has finally fixed a date: January 21. Most of us will have to wait till January 26 when it appears on Early Access, however—the first wave of keys will only be going out to Kickstarter backers who pledged $75-plus. If that’s you, all the necessary instructions will be emailed along with the code. Continue reading TORMENT:TIDES OF NUMENERA