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Monkey Island is being Re-released

Ron Gilbert has blogged about two forthcoming re-releases of Monkey Island and then he analyses the good and bad design decisions in the original Monkey Island. It’s a good read for an old-skooler like me.

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Machinarium

I played Samorost 1 and 2 at the weekend and thought they were awesome. I love the way you control the environment more than the character, and I love the creative organic backgrounds. Anyway my boss said all the designers and programmers at BFG had already played …

Disaster: Day of Crisis

If ever there was a game that was like playing an action movie - Disaster: Day of Crisis is it.

From the start things are non-stop. Load the game and you’re given a movie trailer style intro. Start a new game and you’re hit with an action filled cut scene. In …

Jasper’s Journeys

I was recently elated after finishing Jasper’s Journey, by Lexaloffle Games, on my PC. It was that particular kind of elation you feel when you finally beat something really hard after trying and failing many times.

Jasper’s Journey is a retro-style cute-looking downloadable platformer game for PC and …

Professor Layton

Professor Layton is a curious English gentleman. He’s spent years perfecting the art of puzzle solving - and he revels in it. When he and his apprentice Luke are one day called to St Mystere all of his dreams are answered - he gets given more puzzles than he knows …

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