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Tag Archives: dystopian
Indie adventures: “Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today” (PC)
Dystopian ideas in literature or movies aren’t new, and even games have used these concepts for a long time. So does Fictiorama Studios’ point-and-click adventure Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today offer anything memorable? Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today (PC) (Spain … Continue reading
Posted in Game reviews, Gaming
Tagged adventure, adventure game, Amazon, art, blood, comic, comic book, Daedalic Entertainment, Dead Synchronicity, Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today, digital, disease, DRM-free, dystopia, dystopian, dystopian novel, Expressionism, Fictiorama Studios, GOG, Good Old Games, gore, H.G. Wells, indie, indie games, novel, PC, Philip K. Dick, poetic, point-and-click adventure, police brutality, prostitution, puzzles, rape, Ray Bradbury, retail, soundtrack, Steam, storytelling, suicide, time, violence, visions, visual novel
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GOG release: “The Moment of Silence”
House of Tales’ point-and-click adventure game released back in 2005 might be old news, but the recent DRM-free release of The Moment of Silence still shows that it has lost none of its political and social themes’ potency. Martin Ganteföhr … Continue reading
Posted in Game release news, Gaming
Tagged 1984, adventure, adventure game, arnold schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, cinema, classic, controversial, controversy, discount, discount launch, DRM-free, dystopian, dystopian novel, freedom of speech, George Orwell, GOG, Good Old Games, House of Tales, literature, Martin Ganteföhr, Nordic Games, PC, Peter Wright, point-and-click adventure, puzzles, sale, sci-fi, Steam, storytelling, The Moment of Silence, thriller, Total Recall
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Game release: “Dead Synchronicity” (PC) + GOG fiction contest
Dead Synchronicity is another point-and-clicker published by Daedalic Entertainment, but developed by Fictiorama Studios, that has a much darker twist with its post-apocalyptic content. What is the most striking about this game is that it’s quite graphic in its depiction … Continue reading
Modern sci-fi movies: “Elysium”
Does Neill Blomkamp’s sci-fi action-drama Elysium win over fans of District 9 despite the involvement of Matt Damon as the lead? Elysium (USA 2013, director: Neill Blomkamp) Working man Max gets in possession of a computer program that can restructure … Continue reading
Posted in Movie reviews, Movies
Tagged action, District 9, drama, dystopian, Elysium, future, Neill Blomkamp, sci-fi, social criticism
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