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Halloween Stories 8: Mystery APP

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Halloween Stories 8: Mystery APP Help Edgar Allan Poe find inspiration in the afterlife! Play the new halloween hidden objects game and solve all the dark mysteries in this thrilling puzzle adventure! ________________________________________________________________________ Will you manage to unravel the mystery of Halloween Stories: Inspiration’s Spark? Test yourself in solving engaging puzzles, explore spooky locations, and … Read more

Phoenix Springs review: a surreal detective mystery that’s both old-school and new wave

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Playing Phoenix Springs feels like David Lynch spliced together the ripped pages of a pulpy sci-fi comic with the storyboards of a broody noir. Its visuals are stark and foreboding, its dialogue delivered in riddles, and its haunting choral music sounds like it’s been recorded in a wind tunnel. It’s a point-and-click that calls back to early 90’s Lucas Arts adventure games, and while it shares the same frustrations, the presentation makes it feel entirely contemporary. What begins as a standard detective game – chatting to strangers, rummaging through junk, finding addresses found on the net – soon spirals into something else entirely. I’ve finished it twice and I’m still not sure I totally understand what it all means.

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Cold And Afraid is a PS1-style murder mystery aiming to be “Law & Order by Squaresoft in 1999”

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Indie developers love making retro-styled games that look like PlayStation games you rented from Blockbuster and blitzed through in a feverish winter weekend. I’m glad, so here’s another. Cold And Afraid is a murder mystery that aims to channel the 1990s with chunky characters and lots of lovely dithering. You play a detective out to stop a serial killer with a grisly pattern who’s preying on the young women of an unnamed US city. On top of the obligatory tank controls, it aims to have “consequential dialogue choices” and a “Time Event system where you must meet certain people at specific times to forward different story threads”. Ah, forgive me, you’re here to see the chunky limbs. Here’s a recent trailer that shows ’em.

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What’s this new mystery Nintendo device?

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Nintendo filed a mysterious new wireless device with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this weekend, and it's not the Switch 2 console we're expecting to unveil before next April. The model number CLO-001 doesn't reveal what it is Strictly speaking but it appears to be a completely new product line considering the “001” codes used … Read more