Tagged: point-and-click
The Wolf Among Us is Telltale Games’ latest episodic adventure series based on the hugely popular comic book, Fables. Sheriff Bigby Wolf is the main playable character, and as his name implies, he is literally the Big Bad Wolf from the… Read More »
Telltale Games took the gaming community by storm with its 2012 point-and-click series, The Walking Dead, and intends to replicate that success with a second pencil-and-ink-styled, episodic adventure for 2013. Like The Walking Dead, the upcoming The Wolf Among Us… Read More »
The road ahead is shocking, lonely, infuriating, and empty. It demands that you act coldly. It begs you to offer comfort. It forces you to feel weak, but requires that you remain strong. The desperation of surviving the zombie apocalypse… Read More »
There’s a certain inescapable, old-school appeal to point-and-click adventure games. It may be the nostalgia, or perhaps it’s the genre’s ability to tell an authored tale without giving the player very much opportunity to muck it up. Love or hate… Read More »
A few survivors from my group and I are traveling with a pair of men who are living at their dairy farm near our encampment. We’re on our way to the estate in order to complete a fair exchange of… Read More »
A strictly ludic examination of a video game that emphasizes narrative as its predominant driving component tends to be dismissive of the game’s relevance to what many believe are the inherent tenets of play. Adventure games may run the greatest… Read More »
Disappearing beggars rarely make headlines, and are the least of the NYPD’s concerns, but when they begin turning up, burnt alive, philanthropic Henry White and his friend Cooper, a duo working for an organization dedicated to helping the homeless, are quick… Read More »
In his book, “Free Will,” neuroscientist Sam Harris writes about the non-existence of that universally accepted concept, arguing, with convincing evidence, that it is a false construct of the human mind. Every decision a person will ever make, he asserts, is… Read More »
Update 3: In less than 24 hours, Double Fine Productions has raised over 1 million dollars simply by asking fans for their help. February 9, 2012: Video games have won the day. Update 2: Within 18 hours and 20 minutes… Read More »
