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The Adventuress

Archive for the ‘Coolness’ Category

April 23rd, 2008

Infocom - the secret harddrive stash!

Many many moons ago, there was an interactive fiction gaming development company with the ever so proud name of Infocom. Some of you may, or may not have heard of these guys, but they were a pretty large gaming company back in the 80s and created many interactive hits like The Hitchhiker’s Guide to […]

By Amber -- 0 comments

March 25th, 2008

Dreamfall on XBox Live!

Oh, this is some pretty dang good news. Joystiq just posted a few days ago that Dreamfall: The Longest Journey will be available for download through XBox Live. YES! Now you can play one of the coolest adventure games known to man through the awesome XBox 360 console. Not bad, I says… […]

By Amber -- 5 comments

January 18th, 2008

Indy Developer Goodness

Gnome over at Gnomeslair has put together a massive list of indy developers and their games they have created. And being a fan of indy games, I was super excited to see this huge list of kick ass games! That’s why I’m giving Gnome some props and hoping that my faithful viewers will […]

By Amber -- 2 comments

November 8th, 2007

Checkmate

What happens when you take clay, the love of adventure games and a chessboard? Well, you get chess pieces that look like adventure game characters, that’s what!
Check these out:

Okay, so how do you know which ones are the king and queen and pawn and so forth? Even if you don’t play chess, this […]

By Amber -- 4 comments

October 26th, 2007

Xii Games - Developer Diary Part V

If you, like me, like when developers talk about the development in their games in detail, I have some good news for you. Vince Twelve over at xii games has once again put together another developer diary. And this one is part V (or 5 to you non-Romans) in his series of developers diaries. […]

By Amber -- 2 comments

June 15th, 2007

Let’s win some cool stuff!

Winning cool stuff is always a goal in ones life, isn’t it? I mean, we gamble, because we might win money, which is cool. Or we might call the radio station to win some tickets to see your favorite Boy Band in concert… or not. I mean, it’s totally up to you. […]

By Amber -- 5 comments

March 2nd, 2007

Dreamfall Dreams Come True

If you are a The Longest Journey fan, like me, there is some good news coming our way. No, I don’t mean more half naked scenes of Zoe parading around in her underwear in front of her father. What I do mean is that Funcom, the lovely people who created the Longest Journey series, […]

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January 30th, 2007

2006 AGS Award Nominees announced

If you, like me, have an interest in AGS (Adventure Game Studio), but have little time to figure out which games you should play (because let’s face it, some of those games look good, but are just a dang waste of time), it is the best time of year for us. Why, you might […]

By Amber -- 3 comments

January 5th, 2007

Sam and Max: Situation: Comedy has ARRIVED

Oh yes… I’ve been obsessively refreshing my webmail all day, waiting for the moment in time in which TellTale would email me the best email in the known world. THAT SAM AND MAX HAD COME TO ME ONCE AGAIN.
FOR THE SECOND TIME IN LESS THAN 3 MONTHS.

Bosco, I love your sweet, sweet face.

Oh, how […]

By Amber -- 3 comments

December 15th, 2006

Sam and Max Contest

So… Do you want to win a copy of Sam and Max: Situation: Comedy? Oh, I know you do. Who wouldn’t? That is several solid hours of entertainment that you probably won’t get enough of. I mean… It’s Sam… and it’s Max… and it’s… free…. period.
Well, you CAN win a copy of […]

By Amber -- 2 comments

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