The point and click adventure is going through a bit of a renaissance period at the minute. Monkey Island has gone episodic and is seeing regular releases along with all the other Teltale games, Zombie Cow recently hit the scene with 2 brilliant original games, Machinarium has just come out which has some of the

Given my incredible love for the Idle Thumbs podcast, I was devastated after the final-ish episode hit last week. I’ve spent so many hours laughing about wizards and Far Cry 2 with these guys, and the demise of their show has left a hole in my heart that is just barely filled by the Bombcast. At least they gave us one more laugh - listener Xeneth sent this totally 100% real cross-stitch ...

... another schlub in the industry, working largely by himself and making adventure games like Snatcher. He went full circle in this week's issue of Famitsu magazine, talking with adventure-game writer Jiro Ishii about the genre and ... 's funny to think that during an era when there was nothing but Mario-style games, there was somebody else out there who wanted to make a Blade Runner-like title, ...

The blog that summarizes web culture better than any other, Boing boing, has an article about what they call "point-and-click" adventure games, which apparently includes Myst. A lot of links to recent games in the same spirit as, mostly, old Lucas Arts' games. Worth a read.

... finished playing out the newest CSI game from Tell Tale Games and Ubisoft, CSI: DEADLY INTENT. It's ... Wii version. For those who just love CSI but don't want to have to play the games, you should be aware that the entire cast is featured in this. Brass, ... seems. Knowing that, here is a link to Youtube walkthroughs of the entire games 5 episodes. It'll be like watching CGI episodes ...

I'm not much of a gamer but I really enjoyed playing this cute game: I liked the steampunk look and the music and how you have to solve little puzzles to go further in the game. Try the demo out! :) Anyone have recommendations for similar PC or PS3 games for me? I've received these recommendations already, which sound cool: Grim Fandango Escape from Monkey Island