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Frictional Games has announced a re-release of their Penumbra Series for Mac and Linux. All three Penumbra games—Overture, Black Plague and the Requiem expansion—will be available tomorrow as a single download with a single installer. Even better, on launch weekend (July 17th-19th), Mac and Linux users can get all three… Continue Reading »

Today’s the last day for entries into Appletell’s pirate game giveaway, in which we’re awarding one winner copies of Freeverse’s Jack Keane and Coladia’s Destination Treasure Island. But is that all? Of course that’s not all. We’ve decided to throw in two games of your choice from the Appletell review… Continue Reading »

Pirates are bad. They steal. They kill people. They’ve got horrible hygiene. It’s just not a pleasant thing. But that hasn’t stopped Hollywood and the gaming industry from glamorizing them, and why should it? I’m guessing sword fighting skeletons would be nasty in real life, too, but that doesn’t mean… Continue Reading »

Pirates have sure made a comeback, huh? No longer relegated to goofy musicals and crazy notions like the idea that Geena Davis could ever be a respected ship captain, pirates are now back where they should be: the subject of big budget action movies and sexy Halloween costumes for the… Continue Reading »

Destination Treasure Island is a point and click adventure game from Coladia Games, set four years after the ending of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. You play as Jim Hawkins, trying to unravel Long John Silver’s clues that will lead to his treasure. I had fun with the… Continue Reading »

Time travel. Imagine that you had a magical device which could take you as far back as the 1990s, when new technology—the CD-ROM—allowed game makers to add video to their point-and-click adventures, a move which was supposed to add an unheralded level of realism to video games, but usually just… Continue Reading »

I had a lot of fun with Jack Keane. I’d like to think this has more to do with the quality of the game than with any sense of nostalgia, but I imagine that’s not the case. Those who never got into adventure games or who have never actually played… Continue Reading »

As Arok, a 15-year-old cavekid, you set out on an adventure to find Klem, a shaman who fascinated you with his painting and sorcery skills. Arok seeks Klem so he can learn his ways, and wouldn’t you just know the journey would be fraught with bears, the need to catch… Continue Reading »

Older gamers will have fond memories of Full Throttle, a title that, in my opinion, is a contender for Best Mac Game Ever. Yes, even in a battle with X-Wing—and small wonder, since they were both produced by Lucasarts. In Full Throttle you play a biker named Ben who’s set… Continue Reading »

All you fans of pirates (the handsome, comical, romantic kind, not the amputated, murderous, drunken kind that, you know, actually existed) will be pleased to note that Jack Keane, “A hilarious, action-packed adventure game in the spirit of Monkey Island,” will be shipping out to retailers across North American on… Continue Reading »