Risen developer Piranha Bytes is a name which is probably familiar to most role-playing fans as the architect of the Gothic series of games. And Risen is basically Gothic 4, except the moniker has been dropped ...

It's not advisable to ingest any magic mushrooms or anything even slightly hallucinatory before loading up Outcry, as this has to be one of the trippiest games ever to find its way on to the adventure ...

You may remember Ben and Dan from their last adventure, Ben There, Dan That. If you don't, we'd recommend downloading and playing that freeware nugget before dipping your toes into this follow-up. Time Gentlemen Please carries ...

If you talk to adventure gamers about the Golden Age of their particular genre, they become all dewy-eyed and emotional, remembering back to a time when LucasArts was king and produced spectacularly engrossing animated adventures such ...

There's only one thing that fans of murder mysteries like more than reading them and that's trying to guess whodunnit. The gaming generation has become increasingly used to taking its crime-solving abilities onto the PC, with ...

It sounds like a marriage made in animation heaven: Telltale Games who were responsible for bringing us the episodic adventures of Sam & Max, and Aardman who created the lovable duo that have become a national ...

Unless you're a total adventure game aficionado and have played every animated adventure for the last 15 years, it's unlikely that you'll realise that this is the third outing for laconic lonesome cowboy Fenimore Fillmore, following ...

The Gobliiins have returned for the first time since the original three adventures were released way back in the early nineties. Predictably, the game has made the leap to 3D, although it stumbled on the way ...

Playing Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust makes us feel old. With an opening cut-scene featuring a cartoon character surrounded by cartoon pornography, and opening dialogue that shunts in an expletive as quickly as it possibly ...

Before MMORPGs came on the scene, most online fun came from playing first-person shooters like Unreal Tournament and Tribes. Thanks to the formidable success of World of Warcraft, gamers are now wasting months of their lives ...

They say what goes around comes around and, as with fashion, so with computer games: particular themes and styles have a habit of reappearing according to public taste. Animated puzzle adventure games with a comic twist ...

Animated adventure games with a strong undercurrent of humour went through their Golden Age in the days of LucasArts' Full Throttle and the Monkey Island series, and dedicated adventure fans have had to wait a long ...

In the event of a nuclear war, the best place to live is in a strategically important area that's likely to be targeted. Being vaporised right under the warhead will be as painless a death as ...

All is not well in the land of Ancaria. Sacred 2: Fallen Angel is chronologically a prequel to the events of the first Sacred game and concerns the consequences of the angelic warriors of the Seraphim ...

The darkness is nothing to be afraid of. Unless you're talking about the sounds of the hideous pop-rock band, in which case you should run to the hills screaming, tearing at your ears until their drums ...

The moon is a fascinating thing. It controls the tides, occasionally blocks out the sun, and once a month causes some people to sprout lots of body hair and run around the nearest moor on all ...

In these days when big budget games like Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto and World of Warcraft grab the headlines, the role of indie games producers can often become overshadowed. Yet it's the independents that ...

It was perhaps bad timing that a role-play game based on perpetual combat between humans, elves, trolls and goblins was released when World of Warcraft fever was at its height. Yet despite that - and some ...

Remember the good old days of adventuring, when we monkeyed around on islands and tried to prevent the purple tentacle from having his day? Those LucasArts adventures stood out for their production values and humour. Ben ...

The Massively Multiplayer Online market has never appeared as crowded as the present, with a seemingly unending flood of new titles arriving on the shelves (or more likely, waiting to be downloaded) every month. Yet for ...