Tag: Broken Sword

  • Broken Sword 5: The Serpent’s Curse, Part One

    Following a successful Kickstarter campaign, one of many high profile adventure games to follow Tim Schafer’s trail blazing on the crowd funding website, Broken Sword 5: The Serpent’s Curse is now out. Or at least half of it is. As with Double Fine’s heavily scrutinised Broken Age, the ambitious vision of Revolution’s founder Charles Cecil…

  • Broken Sword 5 Now Available

    It’s been seven Years since the release of Broken Sword 4: The Angel of Death, which if I’ve done my maths right is several years too long to wait for a sequel. That wait ends today, however, as the fifth instalment- The Serpent’s Curse – has released on GOG.com for PC, Mac, and Linux. Well,…

  • Pixelhunter – Talk to…

    Pixelhunter talks about talking in adventure games.

  • Pixelhunter – One For The Ladies

    As gaming has grown as an industry and sought to appeal to an ever widening demographic, it has attempted to move away from its somewhat adolescent roots. The way the medium depicts women is a key factor of this development. The transition of Lara Croft’s character over the years is a prime example; fluctuating from…

  • This is Broken Sword…

    “As I picked myself up, all I could hear was the ceaseless drone of traffic. Life went on around me, but the explosion was to change my life forever” – George Stobbart I recently treated myself to a free copy of Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror Remastered for my iPhone. A chance to have George…

  • Blonde, Bad and Beautiful

    As a game developer in the making, I’m always looking for new ideas regarding breaking the game development mold, so that I can take the games industry by storm when I’m in a position to do so. It was in the Games Lab at Uni (it’s an actual room!) and I noticed someone had printed…