1001 Future: Dishonored
After winning our poll for 2012 game of the year, as well as walking away with the title of ‘Best Game’ in BAFTA’s 2013 British Academy Games Awards, we thought we’d better get around to actually...
View ArticleThat’s an OZsome looking remake
After agonising for months about what project to start for his next Kickstarter campaign, American McGee had a difficult decision to make. Does he continue to make adventures for his demented Alice in...
View Article1001 Future: Pandora: Purge of Pride
Physics-based puzzler Pandora: Purge of Pride is High Class Kitsch’s first game. It’s also the first Kickstarter product that we’ve backed and seen come to fruition, so were we right to part with our...
View Article1001 Future: Escape from Monkey Island
Escape from Monkey Island is the fourth instalment in LucasArts’ beloved pirate series, and the first game not to appear on our 1001 list. Does this mean that this game doesn’t live up to the greatness...
View Article1001 Future: Syberia
Syberia is Belgian comic book artist Benoît Sokal’s 2002 adventure game, which sees our female protagonist searching across Europe for a toy factory heir. Let’s go hunting for some big woolly mammoths....
View Article1001 Future: The Last of Us
Exclusive to the PlayStation 3 and a masterpiece from Naughty Dog, The Last of Us is a fresh new take on the survival-horror genre that replaces zombies with a literally mind-blowing fungal infection...
View ArticleOZombie is dead on its feet
“OZombie’s project will end on Monday 05 August 2013 and needs a whopping $950,000 to succeed. But something would have to go seriously wrong for McGee not to get the money.” Ooops… that’s a quote from...
View Article1001 Reviews: Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars is the first in the acclaimed point-and-click adventure series by Revolution Software. With a handsome protagonist, plenty of exotic locales and copious amounts...
View ArticlePrecinct needs to lock down funding
Jim Walls, the creator of the classic Sierra series Police Quest, recently launched a Kickstarter project for a new adventure called Precinct. At the time of writing, this worthy game has already...
View ArticleCandle lights up Kickstarter
Teku Studios’ project for their dynamic graphic adventure Candle has a funding deadline of 16 August 2013 on the Kickstarter website. At the time of writing it has received $11,840 of its $40,000...
View ArticleFrom American Gods to video game god
Despite his unbelievably hectic schedule this year – promoting his new book, working on the new Sandman comic, and once again writing for Doctor Who – publisher Moonshark announced last week that...
View Article1001 Future: The Night of the Rabbit
The Night of the Rabbit is the most recent point-and-click from German studio Daedalic Entertainment and features a young magician and enigmatic bunny. But should players jump down the rabbit hole in...
View ArticleCandle needs some fuel for the fire
At the end of last month, we wrote about Teku Studios’ project for the gorgeous-looking Candle. The Kickstarter campaign for this dynamic graphic adventure is set to finish on 16 August 2013 and the...
View ArticlePrecinct doing hard time
We recently backed a Kickstarter project for Precinct, a police adventure game by former Sierra Online developer and Police Quest creator Jim Walls. Unfortunately we received an update from the team...
View Article1001 Future: Ben There, Dan That! (Special Edition)
Ben There, Dan That! was first adventure title released by Size Five Games (previously Zombie Cow Studios) back in 2009. It’s full of crude humour and rude words, and is likely to get you giggling...
View Article1001 Reviews: Time Gentlemen, Please!
Time Gentlemen, Please! is Size Five Games’ 2009 follow-up to the hilariously-crude adventure Ben There, Dan That! The story features Hitler as the opposition this time around so expect irate...
View ArticleCandle burns brightly
Here at 1001-Up.com, we became backers for the Kickstarter project for Candle last month. Now all of Teku Studios’ hard work has paid off, with the developers receiving a well-deserved 130% of their...
View ArticleTop 5 memes: GTA IV
We’re back once again to bring you our top five memes, this time for Grand Theft Auto IV. If you’ve somehow missed this game then you should be ashamed of yourself – go grab a copy right now to catch...
View ArticleThe Gallery reveals Airworld
Earlier this year, we became official backers for CloudHead Games’ virtual-reality adventure The Gallery: Six Elements on Kickstarter. The team have been working hard on their first title and now...
View Article1001 Previews: NaissanceE
While browsing Steam Greenlight recently, we came across intriguing-looking first-person adventure NaissanceE by Limasse Five. We’re extremely grateful to the developer for taking the time to answer...
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