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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 »

There’s both good and bad to be found here. Good, in that a ambitious fellow named applemctom put together a rather impressive video of The History of Mac Games. Bad, in that it’s only 2 minutes and 12 seconds long. But the guy pretty much nails it, at least to… Continue Reading »

The LEGO games are always less about the characters and more about the LEGO. Yes, there are some traits that separate Batman from Star Wars and Indiana Jones, but, by and large, the game is still just about running around and knocking things over. You solve some puzzles, you punch… Continue Reading »

Braid is a puzzle game based around warping time in various ways in order to collect puzzle pieces and save a princess. In the beginning, you start with one world, and you must collect puzzle pieces to unlock more. Throughout the levels, you will encounter vicious rabbits, little creatures, wide… Continue Reading »

I hated the original Black and White. I found it to be a God game where you were the servant of the people, with confusing controls that were focused solely on rubbing cow tummies. Something has changed with Black and White 2 (BW2), and it’s probably me, because the game… Continue Reading »

Hey, remember MacSoft? I think I do, too. They were this kick-butt Mac gaming company, and then they fell in with the Destineer crowd, and then suddenly stopped hanging around with us. Well, they’re now back at the door, but is it with the Unreal Tournament 3 game they promised… Continue Reading »

In Moog vs. the Aliens, you play Moog, tasked with hunting for food. But if that job wasn’t difficult enough, a few aliens and other animals have decided they’d like to kill Moog before he kills anything to take home for food. I’m sure we’ve all been in a similar… Continue Reading »

If you’re a design geek like me, one of the fun memes that’s been running around is to take albums, books, and now, video games, and redesign them in the style of The Criterion Collection. Using start imagery (which may or may not actually come from the movie) and juxtaposing… 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 »