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GAME REVIEW – Batman: The Enemy Within – Episode 4: What Ails You (PC)

By Marty Mulrooney

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What Ails You is the fourth and penultimate episode of Batman: The Enemy Within, a new five-episode adventure game from Telltale Games (The Walking Dead: A New Frontier, Guardians of the Galaxy), DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. With Bruce’s cover nearly blown and the Pact dead set on putting its dangerous plan into motion, the clock is ticking for Batman and the fate of Gotham City hangs in the balance…

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INTERVIEW – In Conversation With The Talent of Bay Area Sound

By Marty Mulrooney

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Bay Area Sound is an award-winning audio production company that specialises in voice, music and sound for interactive media. Located in San Francisco, California, the studio has been active for over 20 years, with recent projects including The Wolf Among UsThe Walking DeadTales from the Borderlands and Firewatch. Alternative Magazine Online was therefore very excited – as well as honoured and delighted – to be given the opportunity to interview some of the talented individuals currently working at the studio, from both sides of the microphone! Read on to find out how audio magic is made at Bay Area Sound with faith, and trust, and a little bit of pixie dust…

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INTERVIEW – In Conversation With D-Pad Studio (Creators of Owlboy)

By Marty Mulrooney

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On the 1st of November 2017, the 2D platform-adventure PC game Owlboy – which Alternative Magazine Online’s 2016 review described as “full of surprises, moments that will make you smile and perhaps even shed the occasional tear” – turned one year old. To celebrate this anniversary – and the recent announcement that the game will be launching on consoles early next year – AMO is proud to present an exclusive online interview with the entire D-Pad Studio team!

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GAME REVIEW – The Inner World: The Last Wind Monk (PC, iOS)

By Marty Mulrooney

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The Inner World: The Last Wind Monk is a hand drawn 2D point-and-click adventure game developed by Studio Fizbin and published by Headup Games. The sequel to the award-winning adventure game The Inner World – which AMO described in its 2013 review as “the most pleasant surprise to come along within the adventure genre for a very long time indeed” – The Last Wind Monk continues the adventures of the flute-nose Robert, his best friend Laura and Peck the pigeon as they try to save the world of Asposia… again!

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