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Schrodinger's Cat Burglar review
Cute and quirky feline quantum adventure should scratch the itch of any puzzle-platformer fan In his famous thought experiment, Schrödinger's cat was simultaneously dead and alive, which just goes to show both how weird the quantum world is and why Schrödinger should never have been allowed to adopt one. But what if, instead of one poor moggy being dead, both cats were alive and independently causing mischief in the lab?
Når røyken har lagt seg
Norske brann- og redningspersonell er knallgode, men vi må slutte å late som om vi kan løpe etter denne typen branner med slange og vannbøtte, skriver kronikkforfatterne. Innsatsen har vært formidabel. Men nettopp her ligger en felle: Når førstelinjen gang på gang redder oss med ren stå-på-vilje, er det lett å tro at systemet fungerer. Etter brannen i Krokstadelva sier justis- og beredskapsministeren at Norge «i større grad må være rustet for hendelser som dette». Vi er enige.
Detective Dotson review | Adventure Game Hotspot
A whimsically balmy Bollywood-styled side-scroller whose story and gameplay never fully find their footing Games often transport us to wild and exotic places, from steampunk Victoriana to the dark side of the moon, but it's a refreshing change to instead be dropped into the colourful world of modern India, Bollywood-style. Detective Dotson, by Indian studio Masala Games, takes fairly conventional join-the-dots deduction and turns it into a short but memorably exotic experience.
Simon the Sorcerer Origins review | Adventure Game Hotspot
It doesn’t have quite the same magic, but the series prequel reboot is deeper and still plenty charming in its own way It seems like many once-great but more recently neglected franchises are getting a reboot these days, and the latest to turn over a new leaf is Simon the Sorcerer.
The Biggleboss Incident review | Adventure Game Hotspot
Business and pleasure go hand in hand in this lightweight but cheerfully amusing corporate comedy adventure Some days, it can feel like everyone and everything is out to make your work life hell. Arbitrary rules, pointless busywork, and annoying co-workers can turn a simple day at the office into an administrative obstacle course. (Or is that just me?) Still, it's really only the Peter principle at work, right? For you and me, almost certainly.
SuperSeed Capital Limited Admission Facility in respect of ordinary shares
SuperSeed Capital (AQSE:WWW) Intraday Stock Chart Monday 10 July 2023 TIDMWWW RNS Number : 5178F SuperSeed Capital Limited 10 July 2023 SUPERSEED CAPITAL LIMITED ("SuperSeed" or the "Company") Admission Facility in respect of ordinary shares SuperSeed Capital (AQSE: WWW), a company established as a venture capital fund of funds for early-stage artificial intelligence and software companies, announces that, further to the announcement made on 27 June 2023, an application has been made to the...
SuperSeed Capital Limited Director/PDMR Shareholding
SuperSeed Capital (AQSE:WWW) Intraday Stock Chart Friday 16 June 2023 TIDMWWW RNS Number : 0505D SuperSeed Capital Limited 16 June 2023 SUPERSEED CAPITAL LIMITED ("SuperSeed" or the "Company") Director/PDMR notification SuperSeed Capital, (AQSE:WWW) a company established as a venture capital fund of funds for early-stage artificial intelligence and software companies, received notification on 16 June 2023 that Mads Jensen, Managing Partner of the Company, purchased in aggregate 2,000 Ordinary...
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Cooks Coffee (AQSE:COOK) Intraday Stock Chart Tuesday 30 May 2023 TIDMCOOK RNS Number : 9920A Cooks Coffee Company Limited 30 May 2023 30 May 2023 Cooks Coffee ("Cooks Coffee", "Cooks", the "Company" or the "Group") Preliminary results for the year ended 31 March 2023 Building a family of brands with community spirit Cooks Coffee (NZX:CCC; AQUIS:COOK), the international coffee focused cafe chain and parent company of the Esquires and Triple Two brands, which is dual listed on the Aquis Growth...
Hands on with the Steam Deck – A Whole New Kind of Adventuring (with Games You Already Own) | Adventure Game Hotspot
Stop me if this sounds familiar. You’ve got yourself a PC, you’ve been gleefully taking advantage of all the sales on Steam, GOG and other online stores, and now you’ve got a boatload of great games to play. But then you look over at your friends with their Nintendo Switches and strangers on the train whiling away the time playing games on their phones, and you wish you could join them. Except your desktop’s tethered to your desk and your laptop’s not exactly bus-friendly.
Tails: The Backbone Preludes review – Intimate branching animal anthology ends up being a winner | Adventure Game Hotspot
Branching narratives are a great way to draw players in, giving us choices that actually matter so we can feel the story is at least partly our own. Usually, though, only their designers get bird’s-eye views of the treelike structures of weaving possibilities while we blindly wander the uncharted woods. Eggnut’s Tails: The Backbone Preludes does the exact opposite: it puts clear diagrams of the narrative strands front and centre, complete with helpful notes as to which decisions are pivotal.
Azazel's Christmas Fable - Adventure Game Hotspot
‘Tis the month before Christmas, a time of plentiful mince pies, abundant eggnog, and stuffed stockings, not to mention touching stories about love, generosity, goodwill to all, and … stealing from Santa? Yes, indeed, Azazel’s Christmas Fable is a point-and-click adventure about a demon who tries to infiltrate Santa’s castle at the North Pole to find and purloin the joy powering the festive season for children everywhere.
Aspire: Ina’s Tale
Being the Chosen One is an incredible honour, but it's also a huge responsibility, especially for a child. While guiding a whole community, there's little freedom or time for play. So begins Aspire: Ina's Tale, the debut of Brazilian developer Wondernaut Studio. Mixing puzzle solving with a bit of light action-platforming, it chronicles Ina's literal and metaphorical journey as she throws off her destiny as her people's leader to become her own person.
Old Skies preview preview
If you could travel back in time, where (or rather when) would you go? It's a question as old as sci-fi itself. Maybe you want to avert a war or have another chance at romance with the one that got away. Or maybe, as in Wadjet Eye Games' latest title Old Skies, you just want one last burger at the restaurant you remember from better times. This Steam Next Fest demo may just be our first glimpse of a larger story.
Dexter Stardust: Adventures in Outer Space
In a world bursting with tales of gritty, post-apocalyptic futures and hard lessons, Dexter Stardust: Adventures in Outer Space comes blasting in as a bright and breezy breath of fresh air. From its surf-rock theme tune to its zany, pulptastic plotting and easy character camaraderie, its heart is firmly in the optimistic retro future of classic Saturday morning serials.
Warp Frontier review | Adventure Gamers
As with epic blockbuster movies versus thoughtful micro-budget indies, games can have wildly different goals and budgets. Some titles (especially from big-name studios) are highly polished but superficial: pretty, well-paced, and smooth to play, but with little new or interesting to say. They're safe, bankable, and unchallenging.
Lake review | Adventure Gamers
For many of us, life has a way of sneaking up when we're not looking, leaving us with too much to do and not enough time to reflect on why we're doing it. We're so focused on school, work, friends and family, achieving goals and building careers that it's all too easy to lose sight of where we actually wanted to go in the first place. Lake, from Dutch developer Gamious, is all about the power of stepping back, slowing down, and taking the time to realise what's important.
Provenance: Room 226 to begin in December
Waking up in a strange hotel room is scary enough even when it just means you partied a bit too hard the night before. When that room turns out to be in a whole other reality, you've got much bigger problems. That's the rather shocking dilemma facing the protagonist of Provenance: Room 226, the upcoming debut title from solo developer Steve Coyle. Vincent Spade's young life has been a quiet one, working as a scientist for the Stadler Corporation.
Tandem emerges from shadows on PC and consoles
Adventure games are traditionally solo affairs, but some involve elements of cooperative puzzle solving between multiple characters to succeed. French developer Monochrome has made this dual-character element the primary gameplay focus in their newly released Tandem: A Tale of Shadows, in which shadows can be platforms and gravity is in the eye of the beholder. There's a magical mansion to explore in its surreal Victorian-era world, and it's down to a little girl and a bear to uncover its secrets.
A Twisted Tale gets first illustrations
You never know when adventure will come calling. I mean, there you are, just going about your day, maybe daydreaming or thinking what's for dinner, and then bam! You're hurtling through a portal to parts unknown (but probably very wacky). In the swashbuckling spirit of the genre's classics, it'll soon be time once again to put common sense aside and brace for comedy hijinks in A Twisted Tale, the upcoming debut by German indie studio Voodoo Bembel.
Chicory: A Colorful Tale review
Maybe it's just the effect of months of lockdown blues, but life has been feeling increasingly stern and earnest lately, leaving my inner child feeling pretty glum. I doubt I'm alone in that, and that's why Chicory: A Colorful Tale came bounding into my life at the perfect time.
Rhythm of the Universe: Ionia launch drumming up interest
We often refer to the rhythm of life and living in harmony with nature, using music as a metaphor. But what if music weren't just an analogy, but instead represented the basis of a powerful magic system? That's one of the ideas driving Ionia, the newly released first game in the Rhythm of the Universe series of VR-exclusive action-puzzle adventures by ROTU Entertainment. The people of Ionia have long lived in sync with the forest, and with the Harpa, an "endangered mythical being" at its heart.
Chinese horror series to be revived next year with Dying: 1983
Nightmares can be weird, somehow both absurdly ridiculous and super scary. As in, you can be frantically trying to escape an abandoned building, heart pounding out of your chest at every creak and dead end, when you run into a giant teapot and a woman with a fish for a head. Hold that thought, because it's being turned into a game in the form of Dying: 1983, by Chinese indie studio 2P Games.
First details begin to illuminate Sacrificial Lighthouse
One of the worst fears for any child is to suddenly find themselves lost and alone, but imagine how much worse it would be to not even know where you are, except that you're far from home. This is the fate of the lonely young protagonist of Sacrificial Lighthouse, an upcoming "psychological thriller with quest elements" by indie developer PhobiaGamesNet, creator of the episodic adventure Mad Cat's World.
Road 96 winds up on Windows PC and Switch
Have you ever dreamed of just packing a bag, heading out and seeing where the road takes you? Put like that, it sounds like a grand, romantic adventure with the freedom of the open road and the wind in your hair. But it's a whole different story if your country is riven by war, and abandoning everything you've ever known in a desperate attempt to make it to the border is your only chance at survival – particularly if you have to ride with all manner of strange and dangerous people to get there.
A Cure for Jessica fixing to launch in early 2022
Recent events have brought home to all of us just how deadly a viral pandemic can be, but thankfully reality still pales in comparison to sci-fi nightmare scenarios like those of Contagion or I Am Legend. In that vein, the upcoming first-person adventure A Cure for Jessica, by solo developer Bernardo Argencio Fernandes, is a story-driven exploration of a mother's struggles to save her daughter from a deadly disease in a near-future world where hope and health are in short supply.
The Illusion becomes reality on Steam
Let's say, hopefully hypothetically, that you're looking to join a cult (maybe because their promises of unlimited wealth and power appeal, or just to hang out with the cool kids). Sure, it means going through some kind of initiation ceremony, but that's just blindfolds and hazing and secret handshakes, right?
No Longer Home shows up on Windows and Mac
For many people, college or university years are some of the most memorable of their lives. A stepping stone between school and full adulthood, it's a time to make fast friends and begin grow into oneself. And then, just as we're getting settled and comfortable, graduation looms and we're forced to let it all go, thrust into the wider world and asked to make decisions that will shape the rest of our lives.
The Bookwalker steps ever closer to Steam release
We've all been lost in a good book at one time or another, but it doesn't usually result in anything worse than a missed appointment or a burnt dinner. In The Bookwalker, an upcoming puzzle adventure by Russian developer Do My Best Games, it can happen literally and could get you killed. Bookwalkers, as their name suggests, can jump into actual book worlds, which take on an existence somewhere between dream and reality.
Planet of Lana on horizon for late 2022 release
Imagine, for a moment, a perfect world: maybe somewhere lush, green, and tranquil, with none of the stress that marks modern life. Then imagine all that being taken away in an instant as objects of devastation fall from the sky. What would you do? That's the challenge posed by Planet of Lana, the upcoming debut adventure from Swedish indie Wishfully Studios.
First details leak out for A Trail of Ooze
Smart devices are everywhere these days, from fridges to lightbulbs; you name it, someone has tried to add AI to it. But you've probably never even considered the potential benefits of smart fertilizer, or the possible side effects. The upcoming A Trail of Ooze, by indie developer Insanto Studios, will be all about those unintended consequences in a classic-styled comedic point-and-click adventure with a social conscience.
Magnus Failure successfully launches on Steam
Numbers stations are one of the more curious relics of Cold War spycraft, consisting simply of numerical sequences broadcast over shortwave radio. Seemingly random to outsiders and intriguing to ham radio enthusiasts, they were nonetheless a crucial way of distributing information to agents in the field.
Tesla INVENTORIUM plugs into Kickstarter
You could say that Serbian studio PAROBOT are ardent admirers of their countryman Nikola Tesla.
Unknown Number preparing to ring in 2022
We've all received a call intended for someone else that somehow made its way to our phone instead. Usually it's kind of a pain, but what if one not only turned out to be a happy accident but actually helped to save the world? In Unknown Number, by newly formed British developer godolphin games, one misdialed call is all it takes to plunge you into the deep waters of environmental activism, battling big oil and dodging the police.
The Long Gate review
The Long Gate is a curious experience. As much edutainment as game, my time with it was filled almost equal parts with wonder and frustration. There's a stunning and mysteriously abandoned world to explore, tricky puzzles aplenty to solve, and much genuine physics to learn, but it’s all tempered by awkwardness and (for me, at least) too rarely sparks a sense of joy in discovery, making it feel more like being back in school.
Heavenly Bodies to descend on PC and PlayStation in August
Space. Harsh, unforgiving and yet awe-inspiring, it's the final frontier, where nobody can hear you scream (with frustration).
Mozart Requiem tuning up for October release
Stop me if you've heard this one before: a naive tourist stumbles across a mysterious cult plotting to change with world through murder and tumbles into the seedy underbelly of a beautiful city, fighting for his life. Nope, it's not the latest Broken Sword game or Dan Brown novel, but rather Mozart Requiem from Californian studio HR Games. Full of mystery, music and mayhem, this one is aimed squarely at those who like their conspiracies with a side of historical intrigue.
Sol 705 review | Adventure Gamers
Where most titles are content to tell one story, Sol 705 gives us at least two. One's about alien infiltrators on a quest to recover a lost artifact, while the other's about a regular teenage boy in 1970s Argentina, living in the shadow of his brilliant older brother and just trying to get by.
Horror Story: Hallowseed takes root in Steam Early Access
Normally the worst things you have to worry about on a camping trip are bugs and bad weather, but these are the least of the concerns for the protagonist of solo developer and composer Jeff Winner's Horror Story: Hallowseed, a psychological first-person thriller available now through Early Access. Once devout and God-fearing, the good folk of Hallowseed were seduced by a mysterious occult power, with all residents now dead or vanished and their village cursed forever.
Know by Heart to reveal itself in mid-2021
Becoming an adult can be rough, with the joys and passion of our teenage years being ground down by the monotonous routine of grown-up life that can seem grey by comparison. Many of us hope for something more, for a blast from the past to sweep us up and bring back some of the old excitement, but perhaps we should be careful what we wish for. In something of a change of pace for Russian developers Ice-Pick Lodge, better known for their Pathologic series, their upcoming title Know by heart...
Pharmacologic treatment and SUDEP risk
Abstract Objective We conducted a nationwide case–control study in Sweden to test the hypothesis that antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) mono- or polytherapy, adherence, antidepressants, neuroleptics, β-blockers, and statins are associated with sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) risk. Methods Included were 255 SUDEP cases and 1,148 matched controls. Information on clinical factors and medications came from medical records and the National Patient and Prescription Registers.
Pharmacological treatment and SUDEP risk: A nationwide population-based case-control study
Abstract Objective: We conducted a nationwide case-control study in Sweden to test the hypothesis that antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), mono- polytherapy, adherence, antidepressants, neuroleptics, beta-blockers, and statins are associated with sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) risk. Methods: Included were 255 SUDEP cases and 1148 matched controls. Information on clinical factors and medications came from medical records and the National Patient and Prescription Registers.
Unholy unmasked in latest development details
There can surely be nothing more terrifying to a parent than to have their child abducted – except perhaps having to pursue that child into a world "full of demonic and deformed characters and locations" that reflect one's own tormented psyche. This is the daunting task that will face players next year in Unholy, a stylish upcoming stealth-horror from Polish studio Duality Games.
Willy Morgan and the Curse of Bone Town review
Have you ever noticed how pirate gold seems to curse everyone involved, from the backstabbing buccaneers themselves to those who devote their lives to searching for it? That's definitely true of Willy Morgan and the Curse of Bone Town, by Italian developers imaginarylab, though here the curse is more of the Monkey Island sort. Indeed, references to the LucasArts classics abound, and the game wears its traditional roots like a badge of pride.
Willy Morgan and the Curse of Bone Town hands-on preview
It's time to take an early look at a point-and-click adventure featuring mystery, comedy and long-lost pirate treasure that, despite what you might be thinking, isn't the latest Monkey Island title. That said, Italian developers imaginarylab are clearly fans of the LucasArts classics, and Willy Morgan and the Curse of Bone Town wears its traditional roots like a badge of pride.
Creaks review | Adventure Gamers
If, perhaps as a child, you've ever wished your house had a secret door or even a hidden room, I bet you never imagined it would lead to a whole new world full of talking birds playing shower-head trumpets and living in a giant, tumbledown underground castle. Or that they'd fill that castle with ingenious traps and robotic guard dogs just in case a curious human happened by. In Amanita Design's Creaks, though, that's only the start of your adventure into their ramshackle wonderland.
The Academy: The First Riddle review
Moving up to high school can be nerve-wracking at the best of times. You have to make friends, get your head around tricky new subjects, try not to get lost in unfamiliar surroundings; it's a lot to deal with. So imagine how you'd feel if your school also happened to be the epicentre of an ancient mystery and you got chased by a bear on the way to your very first class! That's the world Sam steps into in The Academy: The First Riddle by Serbian developers Pine Studio.
Pendula Swing – The Complete Journey review | Adventure Gamers
Epic fantasy sagas are all very well, full of swashbuckling heroes, evil monsters, dragons and gold, but have you ever wondered what happens when the story ends, the heroes go home, and the world moves on? Indeed, given the well-known tendency of history to be written by the victors, is it possible that the monsters were maybe not so much evil as misunderstood? Valiant Game Studio have, and the result is Pendula Swing, a seven-part story recently bundled and rereleased as The Complete Journey.
Re:Turn – One Way Trip making way toward September release | Adventure Gamers
A group of students, camping in the woods, alone in the dark among the whispering trees. If you're thinking that sounds a lot like a set-up for a horror story, well, you'd be absolutely right. Re:Turn – One Way Trip is an upcoming 2D horror adventure by London-based indie developers Red Ego Games that combines unspeakable evil, time travel and mystery into a spooky ride. Five college friends are enjoying one last camping holiday together as a graduation celebration.
A Fold Apart review
A Fold Apart feels a lot like what you'd get if Pixar decided to make a game about love and long-distance relationships and...folding paper? Bursting with gentle charm, it tells a relatable story with an endearing, handcrafted art style and emotive music that'll stay with you long after its brief runtime is over. The puzzles, too, are novel and challenging enough to be interesting without breaking the flow of the narrative.
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