Agatha Christie – The ABC Murders will likely please fans of the prolific author's work with its accessibility and faithfulness to its source material. Just don't expect too much of a challenge in the gameplay department.
A title coming out this week that you may have missed is the explosive indie game, Death By Game Show; a twitch-action and tower defense hybrid from developer Oointah.
The plot thickens in Agatha Christie – The ABC Murders with the launch of a brand new trailer. This first full-length trailer for the point-and-click mystery adventure game shows events turning a little bit darker, and bloodier, than what we have seen in previously released footage.
Back in 2012, Capcom released Dragon’s Dogma for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Now, four years later, the PC port has finally arrived. Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen is a port of the expanded version that was released in 2013, which included improved features and a new area, forebodingly christened Bitterblack Isle. As this is more or less a straightforward port, you will know exactly what to expect if you have played the previous versions. If you haven’t, then here is a quick run-down of why this ambitious action-RPG still stands out as an impressive but flawed achievement.
Developer Choice Provisions has brought turn-based strategy to the ruthless conditions of outer space in Tharsis, a board game-inspired survival story that sees a team of Mars-bound astronauts shipwrecked in space. Distressed and hungry, the crew must be guided through their journey as they try and fix the numerous problems with the spaceship, utilize the scarce supplies, and try their best to stave off cannibalism so that they can make it to the red planet in (mostly) one piece. But is this a voyage worth making?
Agatha Christie – The ABC Murders, developed by Artefact Studio, is a game that piqued my interest as soon as I heard it was in development. As a fan of both classic detective stories and puzzle-based adventure games, this point-and-click mystery based on one of Agatha Christie’s most famous novels appears to be a match made in heaven. I was delighted, therefore, to be able to get my hands on the demo of The ABC Murders this past week.
The developer behind the LittleBigPlanet series and the upcoming Dreams, Media Molecule, has celebrated its 10th anniversary today, promising to kick off its second decade with some "pretty exciting announcements" to be made in the coming year.
It will probably come as no surprise that EA’s Star Wars Battlefront has been a big hit. Just like J.J. Abrams’ The Force Awakens, it was a sure-fire success from the moment it was announced. Even though the game received its fair share of mediocre reviews, the majority criticizing its lack of depth and content, fans still haven’t been able to resist the lure of the force, with the game managing to shift between 12-13 million units since its release in November.
Rare is a British developer known for its almost flawless output throughout the 90's and early 2000s. The studio delivered hit after hit while partnered with Nintendo, releasing legendary platforming games such as the Donkey Kong Country and Banjo-Kazooie series, revolutionary first-person shooters like Goldeneye 007 and Perfect Dark, and the brilliant Conker's Bad Fur Day, which demonstrated the developer's darkly humorous side. The studio's body of work was celebrated earlier in the year with the release of Rare Replay on Xbox One, a compilation of its greatest hits.
