by | 19/09/2024 · 3:00 pm

GAME NEWS – Broken Sword – Shadow of the Templars: Reforged Is Out Now!

By Marty Mulrooney

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Broken Sword – Shadow of the Templars: Reforged brings the classic 1996 point-and-click adventure to modern PCs and consoles. With 4K remastered visuals and enhanced audio, along with a whole host of quality-of-life improvements, there has never been a better time to join American tourist George Stobbart and Parisian photo-journalist Nico Collard in their quest to bring the Costume Killer to justice. Read on to watch the launch trailer – which riffs off the iconic original trailer and comes complete with a suitably atmospheric voiceover – and find out more!

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by | 14/08/2024 · 11:59 pm

GAME REVIEW – Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse Remastered (PC and PlayStation 4)

By Marty Mulrooney

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Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse Remastered is a five-episode point-and-click adventure game (collected here as a complete package) starring everyone’s favourite six-foot-tall canine detective in a suit and his hyperkinetic rabbity-thing sidekick. Following on from Skunkape Game’s previous remasters of Sam & Max Save the World in 2020 and Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space in 2021, this third and final season of Sam & Max dusts off the original 2010 release from the Telltale Games archives and brings it bang up to date for modern PCs and consoles in 2024.

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by | 17/06/2024 · 11:27 pm

GAME REVIEW – The Night Is Grey (PC)

By Marty Mulrooney

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The Night Is Grey is a 2D point-and-click adventure game developed by Whalestork Interactive, a five-person team based in Portugal. As the first game developed by the studio, it’s nothing if not ambitious; featuring hand-drawn characters animated at 12 frames per second (the same framerate as the original Broken Sword), with over 50 digitally painted, fully animated panoramic backgrounds, this is an indie game that immediately stands out from the crowd with its striking visual presentation.

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by | 05/05/2024 · 3:44 pm

GAME REVIEW – Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Remake (PlayStation 5)

By Marty Mulrooney

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Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Remake brings Swedish film director Josef Fares’s critically acclaimed fairy tale platforming adventure to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and Windows. Originally developed by Starbreeze Studios and released in 2013, this modern remake from Italian developer Avantgarden S.r.l. switches from Unreal Engine 3 to Unreal Engine 5 – adding a high-fidelity, 4K lick of paint to a timeless classic that still packs an emotional punch over a decade later.

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