Animation Arts, the studio behind the fabulous Secret Files games, have brought us a new hero named Fenton Paddock in Lost Horizon.I was lucky enough to get my hands on a preview of the game consisting of the first couple of chapters and, as expected, it exudes the ...

Darkness Within: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder featured among our favourite games of 2007 - an understated venture into the world of H P Lovecraft, the American author of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction. As a horror adventure, the developers relied heavily on preying on the gamers ...

Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis is the official sequel to the successful point and click adventure Secret Files:Tunguska published by Deep Silver. Puritas Cordis is scheduled for release on the PC, DS and Wii platforms on 08 May 2009. Our preview code allowed us to explore the first three chapters/ levels in which we boarded a cruise ship with Nina, ...

Following on from “The Three Skulls of the Toltecs “ in 1996 and the successful “The Westerner” in 2006, developer Revistronic and publisher Nobilis have delivered the third episode in the saga  - The Westerner 2: Fenimore Fillimore’s Revenge. Promising a much more mature and tougher look than the previous episodes,“Revenge” is reminiscent of the old Spaghetti western  films. Our brief ...

Judging from the early screenshots released, Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel was a title I was really looking forward to review however, Christmas came early for me with the arrival of a preview unit from our friends at Akella and Lighthouse Interactive. Based on a story by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, popular Russian science fiction writers, Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel (aka Inspector Glebsky's Puzzle ...

Overclocked is the latest offering from the established German studio House of Tales who had previously brought us Moment of Silence and The Mystery of the Druids. Set in Manhattan (why NY? There are plenty of suitable Euorpean/German cities) Overclocked , a psychological adventure, follows the investigation by ex-army doctor David McNamara into the mental breakdown/ traumatisation of five young adult. All ...

This is one game I had high hopes for and was genuinely excited about the opportunity of a first look courtesy of the preview. So the preview consisted of the first five locations of the game. Your character Philip wakes up in a locked dirty room - mattress on the floor etc. you can hear another “prisoner” in pain and know you ...

Jack Keane is the latest point and click comic adventure from the studios of Deck13 interrupting their hugely successful Ankh franchise. As hinted by Jan Klose (Creative Director at Deck13 ) in our interview ,the inspiration for Jack Keane stemmed from the likes of Indiana Jones and Monkey Island etc. However that being said , Jack Keane draws all the ...

Art of murder is a 3rd person point and click adventure – a present day gritty murder investigation beginning in the backstreets of New York and venturing into South American territory to locations such as Cusco in Peru and the border of the Amazonian jungle. The murderer targets high society leaving a rather sickening calling card of removing the victims ...