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Bill Farmer video interview – The original voice of Sam still being Goofy with his other famous cartoon canine role

Bill Farmer video interview – The original voice of Sam still being Goofy with his other famous cartoon canine role

With the LucasArts classic Sam & Max Hit the Road reaching thirty years old this year, we were thrilled to chat with Bill Farmer, the original voice behind Sam and the modern day voice of another pretty well known dog too: Disney's Goofy... Read more

Tall Story Games’ Tom Hardwidge serves up a taste of Heir of the Dog in a demo and video interview from AdventureX

Tall Story Games’ Tom Hardwidge serves up a taste of Heir of the Dog in a demo and video interview from AdventureX

Heir of the Dog from Tall Story Games drew a crowd of impressed onlookers at AdventureX in London. Adventure Game Hotspot's Laura Cress (aka Cressup) was on hand to check it out, then caught up with a very dapper Tom Hardwidge to chat about the upcoming Jekyll and Hyde-inspired point-and-click game... Read more

AdventureX 2023 demo round-up – Plenty of treasures unearthed at the narrative games convention in London

AdventureX 2023 demo round-up – Plenty of treasures unearthed at the narrative games convention in London

AdventureX returned for its 12th outing in 2023, and the narrative gaming convention in London showed no signs of slowing down. With many games available to check out first-hand, we’ve rounded up many of the upcoming games on display at the two-day event... Read more

The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo review – Gorgeously absurd hand-animated puzzler suffers from mechanical disconnect

The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo review – Gorgeously absurd hand-animated puzzler suffers from mechanical disconnect

At first the unusual art style and uncanny hand-animated world of The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo feels uniquely captivating, but delve a little deeper and its raw mechanics and unclear puzzle design make for a gameplay experience as fragmented as its protagonist... Read more

Gamescom 2023 Round-up – Part Two: Agatha Christie, Tintin, Dustborn and other assorted genre gems

Gamescom 2023 Round-up – Part Two: Agatha Christie, Tintin, Dustborn and other assorted genre gems

Our coverage of a jam-packed gamescom 2023 concludes with a stellar mix of sci-fi, investigative mysteries and choice-driven narrative adventures... Read more

Gamescom 2023 Round-up – Part One: Harold Halibut, Rusty Lake and other funny, surreal puzzling adventures

Gamescom 2023 Round-up – Part One: Harold Halibut, Rusty Lake and other funny, surreal puzzling adventures

Gamescom 2023 was so packed with adventures, it'll take us two cracks just to cover them all. First up, a mix of traditional point-and-clicks and offbeat brainteasing puzzle-based challenges... Read more

Charles Cecil chats Broken Sword: Parzival's Stone and Shadow of the Templars Reforged at gamescom 2023

Charles Cecil chats Broken Sword: Parzival's Stone and Shadow of the Templars Reforged at gamescom 2023

At a busy gamescom 2023, we chatted with Charles Cecil about Broken Sword: Parzival's Stone, Shadow of the Templars Reforged, and the new "renaissance" era for Revolution Software that these new titles herald... Read more

Loretta review – Compelling 1940s pulp noir thriller offers some killer choices of just how bad you want to be

Loretta review – Compelling 1940s pulp noir thriller offers some killer choices of just how bad you want to be

Loretta is a pleasingly chaotic and entertaining romp through the best tropes of film noir – but it's the player who decides just how dark things get... Read more

Francisco Gonzalez video interview – An In-Depth Chat About Rosewater

Francisco Gonzalez video interview – An In-Depth Chat About Rosewater

In her latest video chat, Cressup speaks with Francisco Gonzalez of Grundislav Games (Lamplight City, A Golden Wake) to unearth more details about his upcoming Western point-and-click adventure game, Rosewater... Read more

WASD 2023 roundup: Old Skies, Nighthawks and A Highland Song

WASD 2023 roundup: Old Skies, Nighthawks and A Highland Song

At London's indie-focused video game event, we got a closer look at the promising new upcoming narrative-based titles from Wadjet Eye and inkle... Read more

Frog Detective 3: Corruption at Cowboy County review – Charming cartoon animal series leaps to a delightful conclusion

Frog Detective 3: Corruption at Cowboy County review – Charming cartoon animal series leaps to a delightful conclusion

Another “ribbeting” Frog Detective adventure with lots more kooky animals to interview and mysteries to solve, Corruption at Cowboy County creates a fitting conclusion to this charming trilogy... Read more