Point-and-click adventures were big in the ’90s and Wadjet Eye Games looks to bring them back with the Blackwell series: four episodic games that follow a reluctant detective and her ghostly relative. Each game tells another part of the story, and opens up an interesting and dangerous world of obnoxious and stubborn ghosts, weird and entertaining people, and clever mysteries.
In The Blackwell Legacy, you meet Rosa and Joey, then jump back twenty years in Blackwell Unbound to get to know Rosa’s aunt Lauren. Blackwell Convergence brings you back to the present with a …

User-interface design is a tricky part of game development. You have to find the right balance between usability and attractive aesthetic choices. This is only taking an “average” gamer into account, but there are many different types of gamers with larger hurdles to overcome than that which any game presents.
Legend of Grimrock developer Petri Häkkinen received an interesting comment after showing off the newest additions to the game’s user interface. Commenter HarpoonIPA wrote, “I’m disabled and use a mouth stick for typing, I always used the mouse in [Dungeon Master] just easier for me, but …

Terraria has been keeping its players amused with mining, building, fighting and treasure hunting since May last year. It’s a pretty significant amount of players as well, most likely, with Re-Logic managing to shift over a million copies so far. Surprisingly, Terraria will now be forged into a physical state (probably requiring several hard to find materials) for those with digital distribution phobias.
Merge Games has announced that Terraria will be added to their site on March 16th in the form of a Collector’s Edition which you can grab for £19.95. …

Allow budding videogame journalist Rory Fingers to take you by the hand and introduce you to a world of gaming insight beyond your wildest imagination. The Videogame Show What I’ve Done is one man’s epic journey through the greatest interactive art that humanity has created.
This week, the hit 2012 game Modern Warfare 3: Black Ops is up for appraisal.
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Shank 2 is a lot nastier than I was expecting. That’s the good kind of nasty … the kind that makes you think, “I am so freaking glad I did that move.” Anyone who has an odd attraction to exaggerated cartoon violence should probably keep an eye on this game, because its overemphasized gore had me giggling childishly quite a few times.
For those who aren’t familiar with the original game, Shank 2 stars the blade-wielding brute named … well, Shank, who shoots and stabs his way through a series of …