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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
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Movie trailers: “Goosebumps”
With Halloween approaching soon and the days becoming darker, it’s high time for some spooky but also funny movies like Rob Letterman’s Goosebumps. Based on the original scary children books by R.L. Stine, the creatures of his imagination come alive … Continue reading
Posted in Movie trailers, Movies
Tagged 3D, bloody, books, cinema, comedy, fiction, garden gnome, gnome, Goosebumps, gory, Halloween, horror, Jack Black, movie, novel, pop out, R.L. Stine, Rob Letterman, uncanny
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Game release: “80 Days” (PC)
Adventure games are not the only ways to experience interactive storytelling, especially when it comes to freedom of choice. Inkle Studios‘ 80 Days is a fresh take on interactive fiction with strategy elements. Do you remember the choose-your-own adventure books? … Continue reading
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Tagged 80 Days, adventure, adventure game, award, BAFTA, book, choose-your-own-adventure, classic, DRM-free, fiction, GOG, Good Old Games, IGF, Inkle Studios, interactive, interactive fiction, Jules Verne, London, novel, PC, Steam, steampunk, storytelling, strategy
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Classics played today: “The Last Express” (PC)
Jordan Mechner is well-known for having laid the groundwork for the Prince of Persia series, but he also dabbled in the adventure game genre with his real-time first-person point-and-clicker The Last Express. The Last Express (USA 1997/France 2011-2013), developer: Smoking … Continue reading