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Humble Weekly Sale gets adventurous with Jack Keane, Edna and Harvey
Humble Bundle's latest Humble Weekly Sale is aimed squarely at fans of point-and-click adventure games, offering up a bounty of twelve genre favorites from The Adventure Company and Daedalic Entertainment. All buyers receive downloadable copies of The Adventure Company's Dead Reefs, A Vampire's Tale, Safecracker, and Aura: Fate of the Ages. Pay more than $6 and you'll also get Dark Fall, Dark Fall 2, The Book of Unwritten Tales, The Critter Chronicles, and Jack Keane 2, along with Daedalic Entertainment's Deponia and Edna and Harvey. Big-spenders may opt for the $15-and-above purchase tier, which includes all featured games and a bonus Deluxe Digital Edition copy of The Adventure Company's recently released The Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief. This week's bundle offerings will remain available through February 27. [Image: Humble Bundle]
Steam deals: The Bureau, The Raven, games that don't start with 'The'
This should come as little surprise to consistent Steam users, but the digital distribution platform is holding a sale on some video games over the weekend. Italics. A smattering of tempting deals are lined up right now, starting with The Bureau: XCOM Declassified for under $12.50 (and also now available for Mac). Episodic crime adventure series The Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief is also part of this weekend's deals and on sale for $6.24. A digital deluxe version, including the game's soundtrack and other digital goodies, is on sale for $7.50. Coffee Stain Studios' tower-defense shooter hybrid Sanctum 2 is free to play this weekend and only $2.24 if you want to buy. Free to play game Marvel Puzzle Quest: Dark Reign is holding a sale on three booster packs, each unlocking various characters in the puzzle offshoot. Early Access dungeon crawler The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot is down to $13.39. These deals will last for varying lengths – some games you've only got 48 hours to grab, while others are cheap until January 27 – so if you're interested, boot up your Steam client and give 'em a gander.
The Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief review: Inspector, clues, slow
So-called English "cozy mysteries" are a wildly successful subset of the whodunnit genre, in part because of Agatha Christie, who was a master of getting a bunch of people together in a house and then bumping them off one by one. The Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief takes its story cues right from Dame Agatha, drawing together a disparate group of characters and then promptly dropping a mysterious jewel thief into their midst. Deception, red herrings, and clues abound, and putting it all right is a joyous activity for the armchair sleuth – if only the game's clunky execution didn't keep getting in the way. As Constable Anton Zellner, you're an endearing, if not overly successful cop with a penchant for mysteries. In Part 1 of The Raven, the only part currently available, you find yourself accidentally at the center of a mystery when you discover that the acclaimed thief The Raven has his sights on a jewel locked up a few train cars behind you. The Inspector in charge of the guard detail isn't really interested in your help, but that's just because he doesn't see your full potential. Surely if you poke around a bit you can find out something really vital for catching the criminal in the act!%Gallery-194915%
Get a glimpse of The Raven, from Unwritten Tales developer King ART
King ART, developer of The Book of Unwritten Tales, has a new adventure game in the works called The Raven. The game is set in 1960s Europe and has players on the hunt to find a thief known as The Raven, who has stolen an emerald called the "Eye of the Sphinx." The Raven is in development for PC, Mac and as-yet-unannounced consoles. Put on your favorite detective hat and check out the trailer (above) and gallery for the game from Gamescom. %Gallery-163318%
