The Games News

A team called “Screen 7″ mainly formed of college students is working on a free point and click game based on the Indiana Jones movies. No certain information is provided yet, but the game, which will be free to download and play, will probably be released this year after being under development for almost 5 years. The storyline is original and game will not be linear, so you will be able to choose your path through the game. The graphics engine used is Adventure Game Studio (AGS).

The game, Fountain Of Youth (known by many as FoY) is a freeware point and click adventure game with a similar style to the classic LucasArts adventure, Fate of Atlantis. It is being developed by an international team of enthusiastic fans of both Indiana Jones and point & click adventures.

Good news on games filed, more exactly for the fans of the game World of Warcraft, because Blizzard Entertainment Inc. has negotiated a deal with Legendary Pictures concerning the feature film development of Blizzard’s popular “Warcraft” games. World of Warcraft is just one of the popular game titles being turned into movies and its official site will be keeping their fans and players updated on the progress whenever possible.

Unlike other video games, Warcraft’s hard part has already been done for the writers of the screenplay: the history of the world, the creature designs, and even many of the main characters have already been created in detail. However, we have to admit that Legendary Pictures did a wonderful job with Batman Begins and Superman Returns, it shouldn’t be too hard to make this good game, a good movie also.

Lucas Arts new game is about to challenge reality. It is said that Lucas Arts had lost some of its skills involved in making games but the new released Lego Star Wars tries to prove that a new tendency has appeared in the industry of games. Although this company seems to be interested in applying success stories and movies in the produced games, the tradition regarding success stories is kept. Lucas Arts is not exclusively a Star Wars game publisher, but they are intending to release a new game with a title frame belonging somewhere between the ending of Episode III and including also some elements from the beginning of Episode IV. It seems that the new released game will be available for PC but also for Xbox. So gamers from all over the world, let’s challenge again the reality.

The movies turning into video games or vice versa, are more and more in fashion. It seems even Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs is to be made into a computer game for the Xbox, PlayStation 2 and PC.

According to the news the video game, which will follow the original plot of the movie ‘Reservoir Dogs’ and will also feature the full soundtrack from the movie, is set to be released this autumn. Gaming and movie fans will follow the progress of a diamond heist and enabling the player to take on each of the five iconic Reservoir Dogs characters.

According to TV.com, ABC will be launching a massive interactive game based on its hit series Lost. The game “The Lost Experience”, which will also feature new characters, is set to become the largest interactive game ever based on a TV show.

Although the story of the game will be different from the one seen in the show and users will have to watch the show for clues and other information for the game, the network hopes that the game will appeal to both fans and non-fans of the TV show.

ABC is hoping that teaming will bring the “The Lost Experience” to continents, each part of the world will be receiving different clues.