With Minecraft’s international, multi-generational popularity, Telltale’s Minecraft: Story Mode was sure to be a popular addition to the studio’s stable of licensed properties. After extending the first season to include additional [...]
Black The Fall begins quietly with your unnamed protagonist, a humanoid worker with a giant antenna sticking out of his back, stealthily trying to escape some industrial factory. How did our protagonist get here? Is he a slave? Are he and his comrades [...]
The End Is Nigh is a grotesque, brutal platformer that can infuriate you with demanding gameplay, then reward you with the high of conquering a seemingly impossible gauntlet. That formula probably sounds familiar to fans of 2010’s Super Meat Boy, and [...]
The philosopher Plato once said about music that “It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, and flight to the imagination.” It was this flight to the imagination that was most relevant to Sierra’s adventure games. Sierra had an unrivaled music [...]
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc is the kind of game that requires the right kind of taste to be appreciated. It’s unapologetically dark by design, doesn’t hold back from some pretty in-your-face violence, and replaces many traditional gameplay elements [...]
Inspiration for adventure games has come from a variety of sources over the years, but it’s quite unusual for one to be based on an opera—and Fidelio is not just any libretto; it is the only opera composed by Ludwig von Beethoven, perhaps history’s [...]
Can you believe it’s been 20 years since Westwood Studios released their magnificent Blade Runner adventure? While a new Blade Runner movie, starring Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford, is expected to arrive in cinemas around the globe in October, [...]
“You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.” For gamers of a certain age, that sentence evokes as potent a wave of nostalgia as hearing the song that was playing during their first [...]
