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'The Lord of the Rings: Gollum' is delayed to 2022
Daedalic and Naco has teamed up to co-publish the stealth adventure.
Gollum is the star of Daedalic's new 'Lord of the Rings' game
The Lord of the Rings universe just keeps on expanding. Even though the original blockbuster trilogy finished up 16 years ago, and the subsequent Hobbit films sort of bombed, entertainment giants think there's still mileage in the franchise. Amazon has announced a forthcoming TV series, and now Daedalic has revealed it's working on a new game, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum.
Fly among beautiful floating islands hiding ancient secrets in 'Aer'
Aer is more gorgeous every time I see it. I first ran across it by accident: While waiting in a line at Gamescom 2013, I noticed Robin Hjelte, the game's creator, showing off a video on his tablet to a small, excited crowd. I peeked over his shoulder to see a beautiful pastel landscape with rolling green grass, adorable animals, and, at the center of it all, a young woman -- who suddenly transformed into a bird and soared off the land's edge, aiming for another tranquil island floating high in the sky. I gave Hjelte my card and told him to hit me up if he wanted to talk about the game. The following year at Gamescom, we sat down for a lovely chat. This year at E3, I finally got to play Aer (now with support from renowned German publisher Daedalic Entertainment), and the game sang in my hands as I flawlessly swapped between land and sky, and I wandered through dark, mysterious passageways with even darker secrets. Today, Daedalic and Hjelte's studio, Forgotten Key, released a brand new, infintely more gorgeous trailer for Aer, alongside confirmation that the game is coming to Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC, Mac and Linux in 2016.
Daedalic schedules Randal's Monday to right its wrongs in Q3 2014
When someone wakes up with a hangover, you'd expect them to hydrate, take aspirin or rest up to get through the day, right? We don't consider selling a friend's engagement ring par for the Regretting Booze course, but apparently Randal does. In Randal's Monday, this choice results in his friend Matt killing himself, leaving Randal cursed to live through the same Monday until he finds a way to fix his mistake. Randal's Monday is a point-and-click adventure game from Daedalic Games and Nexus Game Studios, layered with geek and pop culture references from the past two decades. More than 50 characters will cross paths with Randal in his quest for decency, which is scheduled for a digital release on PCs in Q3 of 2014. [Image: Randal's Monday YouTube channel]
GOG.com points at, clicks the deals button on Telltale, Daedalic adventure games
GOG.com is offering 16 adventure games or bundles on sale, with discounts up to 85 percent off until Tuesday, January 14. Each PC or Mac game in the sale is published by either Daedalic Entertainment or Telltale Games, including games in the Sam and Max series, Deponia series and Tales of Monkey Island. Among the more noteworthy deals is a combo pack for two games in the Edna and Harvey series: The Breakout and Harvey's New Eyes for $2.99, which amounts to $17 in savings. Additionally, players can pick up the Wallace and Gromit's Grand Adventures pack for $2.99, which saves an additional $17 on four episodes: Fright of the Bumblebees, The Last Resort, Muzzled, and The Bogey Man. Head past the break to see the full list of discounted games and their respective prices.
Aliens kidnap an adorable creature's dog in point-and-clicker Gomo
The name alone sets the tone: Gomo. It's an adorable, cartoon-style point-and-click adventure with creepy overtones and a sweet story about a creature and his dog, Dingo, who's been captured by aliens. Gomo comes out on December 6 for PC for £7, published by Daedalic Entertainment and developed by Fishcow Studio. It should be on Steam Greenlight in the near future. And yes, even the aliens are cute in Gomo.
Goodbye Deponia demo says hello to PC, Mac on Steam
A free demo for Goodbye Deponia, the third and final game in Daedalic's Deponia series, is available now on Steam for PC and Mac. The demo offers the first chapter of Goodbye Deponia. The game launched in full on October 17 and it's currently $20. A premium edition runs $25 and includes the soundtrack, concept art, animation workbook and a book introducing the Deponia world, while the complete Deponia trilogy goes for $48, all on Steam. If you're ready to say sayonara to Deponia's wacky, adventurous world, grab the demo or dive right into the final game right here.
Humble Weekly: Daedalic's Deponia, Edna and Harvey, The Dark Eye
German developer and publisher Daedalic is a giant in the adventure game genre, but this week eight of its games are going for a tiny price in the Humble Weekly Sale. Get Edna and Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes, A New Beginning: Final Cut, The Whispered World, The Chronicles of Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet and The Chronicles of Shakespeare: A Midsummer's Night Dream for whatever amount you want to pay ($1 or more gets Steam keys for eligible games). Add Deponia, Journey of a Roach and The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav for $6 or more. Anyone who gets in on the Humble Weekly bundle also gets the documentary An Inconvenient Game, and some digital and printable art from Daedalic's games. Check out the lineup here.
Night of the Rabbit mixes Alice with The Doctor, now on Steam
Daedalic Entertainment once told us its fantasy adventure game, The Night of the Rabbit, was a mix of Alice in Wonderland and Doctor Who – a combination that seemed almost too good to be true. Turns out it's entirely true, and the game is now available on Steam for $20, for both PC and Mac. The Night of the Rabbit throws the main character, Jerry, into a world between worlds, populated by talking animals and dark forces, with overarching magical and scientific twists. Daedalic is behind the Edna and Harvey adventure series and the comedy-adventure franchise, Deponia.
Report: Ubisoft, Atari, many other publishers requesting payment from German pirates
Someone in Germany -- perhaps even some people -- illegally pirated a copy of Prison Break: The Conspiracy. Hard to believe as it may be, it appears to be the case according to TorrentFreak, who delved into German public records looking for game publishers who have employed German law to track down (and demand money from) people who allegedly pirated various games. In Germany, Koch Media publishes the Prison Break game, and has been demanding settlements of "several hundred Euros" from offending IP addresses. The records indicate that several major publishers, either directly or through subsidiaries/secondary parties, have been sending out letters to German citizens requesting varying levels of payment in return for not being sued. Where things get murky, however, is how the publishers are seeking out the accused pirates, using not always reliable "IP address-only evidence" -- easily circumvented with proxy domains and such. You know, hacker stuff. TorrentFreak's report indicates that a variety of publishers and distributors are involved, including (but not limited to): Atari, Koch Media (representing Techland's Dead Island and Prison Break, and Eidos/Square Enix's Deus Ex: Human Revolution as well as Dungeon Siege 3 and various Final Fantasy titles), Daedalic Entertainment (representing LucasArts), Codemasters, BitComposer, Ubisoft, Kalypso Media, dtp entertainment, and Aerosoft. It is currently unclear how many settlement notices have been sent out by each company, or if any will continue doing so after these actions have been brought to light. Witcher 2 developer CD Projekt Red was recently pursuing similar cases in Germany until it announced the end of the practice last week.
A New Beginning for environmental adventure games
Daedalic Entertainment, the German publisher of adventure games like Ankh, is developing a new adventure game for the PC, Wii, and DS with a preachy twist. A New Beginning is being billed as an "eco-thriller" in which the player, as five teenagers with elemental rings a scientist and a time traveler, is responsible for stopping an "impending global climate cataclysm."Remarkably, A New Beginning uses hand-drawn 2D art and animation. We'll hopefully find out how it looks when Daedalic debuts the game at the Games Convention in Leipzig.[Via Game|Life]
