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A New York Hour with Wadjet Eye's Dave Gilbert

A New York Hour with Wadjet Eye's Dave Gilbert

The acclaimed writer/designer/actor/director joins us to talk indie development, voice acting, creative choices, and so much more, including the studio's upcoming Nighthawks and Old Skies. Bonus top five: best modern pixel art games... Read more

Bye Sweet Carole introduced for 2024 release

Bye Sweet Carole introduced for 2024 release

Traditionally animated horror fairy tale from the creator of Remothered blends classic adventuring with stealth and platforming... Read more

The Question of Review Bias

The Question of Review Bias

Does bias negatively (or positively) impact a review unfairly? What does it mean for a writer to be truly "objective?" It's a very important topic to us as journalists, so this week we explore these questions and more from an editor's perspective. Bonus top five: Games and movie reviews we personally disagree with. (Because that's okay!)... Read more

Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot set to return for The London Case

Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot set to return for The London Case

Sequel to 2021's The First Cases coming this summer to PC, PlaySation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch platforms... Read more

Paws of Coal to be unearthed on Steam next month

Paws of Coal to be unearthed on Steam next month

Animal-themed narrative adventure in the Trip the Ark Fantastic universe coming May 1st on PC... Read more

Interior Worlds is out on Windows PC

Interior Worlds is out on Windows PC

Demo also available for short photographic "exploration adventure" through liminal spaces on Steam... Read more

Sherlock Holmes takes on The Case of the Hung Parliament in VR

Sherlock Holmes takes on The Case of the Hung Parliament in VR

Single or multiplayer live-action deduction mystery available via AppLab and SideQuest on the Meta Store... Read more

An interview with Jane Jensen, legendary designer of the Gabriel Knight trilogy ... and beyond?

An interview with Jane Jensen, legendary designer of the Gabriel Knight trilogy ... and beyond?

With her husband Robert Holmes Kickstarting a new music album of original game themes, this seemed like a perfect time to touch base and get her perspective on things and discuss their plans for the future – plans that they've made no secrets about hoping could ultimately lead to that long-awaited new Gabriel Knight sequel... Read more

Road To Devadatta arrives on Steam

Road To Devadatta arrives on Steam

Demo also available for free-roaming adventure with light action elements on Windows PC... Read more

The Aching bursts out on Windows, Mac and Linux

The Aching bursts out on Windows, Mac and Linux

Demo also available for dark fantasy adventure running in an emulated Tandy 1000 environment... Read more

Adventure Game Hotspot Convention Announced!

Adventure Game Hotspot Convention Announced!

Hey, we'll be hosting our very own adventure game convention, the first ever on U.S. soil! In a standalone mini-podcast, Joshua and Jack spill the deets on the upcoming AGHcon in Tacoma, Washington on April 20-21, 2024... Read more

The Kraken Wakes unleashed on PC

The Kraken Wakes unleashed on PC

Adaptation of John Wyndham's 1950s sci-fi/horror novel features conversational AI... Read more

Lil' Guardsman to be one to watch later this year

Lil' Guardsman to be one to watch later this year

Hand-painted deduction adventure coming to PC, PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch platforms... Read more

Demo foretells upcoming arrival of Twilight Oracle

Demo foretells upcoming arrival of Twilight Oracle

Kickstarter coming April 25th for comedic point-and-click fantasy adventure from the creator of The Corruption Within... Read more

Project Dark sees the light on PC, Switch and mobile devices

Project Dark sees the light on PC, Switch and mobile devices

Choice-driven, episodice narrative anthology presented through binaural audio... Read more