Tag: ADVENTURE

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/pc_games/Five_awesome_Steam_games_that_make_great_gifts'; With Halloween out of the way, it's now officially time to look towards CHRISTMAS! Stop right there! Let me turn those groans of yours -- those Scroogeish grunts of displeasure -- into smiles and laughter! For this year, how about giving the gift of game with Valve's Steam? OK, so they might not be your ...

I have no idea if Egoboo's original creator named this thing, or if the name came later on after the mantle had been handed down a few times -- and I had absolutely no idea what that word meant... until I punched it into Google! Check out the definition, if you feel the need to know. If not, read on! Egoboo is a (90 megabyte!!) 3D Rogue-like game. Rogue is a very, very old game -- the original ...

When I was growing up, Myst was the most fantastic game imaginable. There seemed to be no object at first, but a story eventually revealed itself to patient gamers who figured out how to solve its puzzles. For the time, its graphics were amazing, and the sounds and cutscenes blew us away. Now you can recapture that experience in portable form, because Myst is available on the iPhone. Although I ...

The Several Journeys of Reemus is a Flash game that is somewhat reminiscent of the 90's Lucasarts games like Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island, and Sam and Max. SJoR has a minimalist point-and-click interface that lacks the obvious verbs like "Use," "Look," and "Pick Up." The plot is centered around Reemus and his cute, yet melancholy purple-bear sidekick Liam. Reemus, an insect exterminator, is ...

EveryTrail is a nicely designed application that you can use to map out and track your trips. Waypoints, photos, and trip notes can be easily dropped in a Google Map. How does it all work? Start off by creating an account. After that is complete, grab a copy of the EveryTrail GPS Uploader. When your GPS device is connected to your PC, it can be synced up with your choice of which waypoints you ...

There's a lot of things you can do with RSS headlines, but this isn't one I had thought of: Average Shoveler is a Flash toy with old school adventure game-style graphics. You control a character who can do three things: walk around, shovel snow and talk to passers-by. The passers-by will tell give you news (scraped from Yahoo! News) and when you shovel the snow, news photos will ...