Well, here’s some good news for all you adventure gamers who also enjoy a good puzzling game. Last year’s hit Nintendo DS game, Professor Layton and the Curious Village, will soon have some buddies sitting on the shelf with it. Developer, Level 5, has recently talked to a Japanese gaming magazine about releasing a whopping THREE new Professor Layton games that will be released in Japan sometime in the fall.
I’m guessing the detective and his boy servant are big hits in the gaming community!
According to Kotaku, the first game in the series will be called Professor Layton And the Demon …read more

There is yet another adventure game coming to your Nintendo DS, Wii and PC: Secret Files 2 – Puritas Cordis. Now, if you couldn’t tell, this is the sequel to Secret Files: Tunguska, which was the top selling adventure game of 2006 according to the website. When you have sequels to best sellers, you just can’t go wrong! I mean, just look at the Monkey Island series. The first one was good, but two and three were even better. We won’t talk about the fourth one, though. That one was just crap.
There are lots of things going on in Secret …read more

Who wants to play an evil tyrant in a comedy style adventure game? Oh, I know I do! Recently, the Adventure Game Company added an adventure comedy about a little man who is a ruler of a land called Faeryanis and a tyrant at the same time! Doesn’t that sound fun?
The name of the game is called Ceville and is bound to be a hit with adventure game folks far and wide. Here’s the story:

The mean cruel cold blooded tyrant Ceville ruthlessly rules the beautiful kingdom of Faeryanis. Or rather, he used to rule the beautiful kingdom of Faeryanis, …read more

Back in 2000, there was an interesting new adventure game that was released to the world about one of the craziest fictional characters of all time: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Well, Alice may not have been so crazy, but the world she wandered around in definitely was. Even as a small child, I knew that Lewis Carroll must have been on a lot of drugs and I didn’t even know what drugs were when I was that small.
That’s just how messed up Alice’s world was.
The name of that game, interestingly enough, was American McGee’s Alice and if you could gather …read more

Emerald City Confidential, Wadjet Eye Games brand spankin’ new game has finally been released to the public by publisher, PlayFirst. Finally!
Now, I think I’ve mentioned this before, but I got to do a bit of beta testing for this game and can tell you that it’s definitely going to be worth your time and even the $19.95 you’ll have to pay for the download.
I mean, it’s just that good.
Dave Gilbert did a great job with the story behind this game and took what he felt was the true land of Oz into this gritty detective game. You’ll also …read more

I know many of you adventure game fans are big supporters of the detective story. And why would you be? Detective stories and adventure games go together like bacon and lettuce with a little mayo on 2 pieces of toasts. Yes, detective games are a lot like BLT sandwiches.
Why am I hungry?
Game developer, Getstalt Games has put together a brand new detective game for us all to play. The game? Nick Chase: A Detective Story. And when I say “new”, I mean they released it back in April of 2008 and I’ve just now caught wind of it.
The …read more

After several months of hard work and dedication, Wadjet Eye Games has finally finished its work on their new game Emerald City Confidential! In the game, we get a strange, yet fascinating look of the world of Oz from the book series, The Wizard of Oz. And when I say strange, I mean really strange. I mean Dave Gilbert strange!
But a very good strange!
The game is just about ready to be published by game publisher, PlayFirst. The release date for the game is February 17th, if you have a PlayFirst PlayPass, or on February 19th, if you are a …read more

A few gaming sites, including WorthPlaying got a load of screenshots from the new LucasArts new Indiana Jones game, Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings. This game has had its ups and its downs, with many people believing that the game would never see the light of day. Would we be surprised if it didn’t, though? No, not really, because LucasArts tends to focus on their mega cash cow to fund its gaming department.
Even the story to the game sounds pretty sweet:

Step into the shoes of the legendary hero, Indiana Jones, in an epic adventure! Set in the …read more

This seems to be the week for Telltale. And why shouldn’t it be? They are pretty freaking awesome. And the news that they’ve brought this week have made this adventure gamer quite happy. According to 1UP, the next adventure in Telltale’s line up Wallace and Gromit’s Grand Adventure will be coming to Xbox Live Arcade!
So, why does this make me happy? They’ve already had games come to the Wii for download. Why not just play it on the Wii?
Because… I love the Xbox so much more than the Wii. It hate filling out the stupid Wii-Credit page to get more …read more

I couldn’t pass this game trailer up. Why? Because it features a monkey dressed up like a Pharaoh! Monkeys by themselves are pretty awesome, but when they’re dressed up like royalty, they’re even more awesome! This game trailers is for a game called Ancient Quest of Saqqarah and is supposed to be a puzzle/adventure game which features over 500 different puzzles.

Once every thousand years a mysterious eclipse shrouds the ancient pyramid of Saqqarah. With help of Khufu – the Magical Monkey from the Underground Oasis, solve over 500 challenging puzzles spread across 7 different modes of gameplay and restore …read more