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Doing the Devil's dirty work in Lucius
Imagine a palatial mansion estate. Inside dwells a fortunate, wealthy family: a mother, a father, a little boy. Servants go about their business, a gardener tends the garden. It is, in short, the life of the well-to-do. In the kitchen, the little boy watches as a maid enters the spacious walk-in freezer. Once she's well out of sight, the boy calmly shuts the heavy, polished steel door behind her, snaps a padlock on the latch, spins the thermostat to well below freezing, and walks away.The boy's name is Lucius, and here's the kicker: he's the protagonist. In other words, in this game, he's you.%Gallery-162190%
Super Meat Boy UK Ultra Edition revealed, extra meaty
Lace Mamba Global has revealed the contents of its previously announced special boxed edition of Super Meat Boy. The Super Meat Boy Ultra Edition is headed to the UK and Ireland and, along with the game, will also include a 40-page comic and sketch book, a poster and a download of the game's soundtrack. For a few more bones, players can pick up the Ultra Rare Edition, which includes everything from the Ultra Edition to a snazzy Super Meat Boy T-Shirt. The Super Meat Boy Ultra Edition will be priced at £19.99, while the Ultra Rare Edition will run £24.99. Both will hit UK and Irish retail on August 26. %Gallery-128992%
Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse getting European, Australian retail release
Lace Mamba Global has announced plans to release a retail version of the Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse on PC and Mac in several regions. In addition to the standard edition, the company is also planning a collector's edition with (as yet unknown) special content. The Devil's Playhouse should hit retail shelves in "the UK and Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Scandinavia, the Benelux countries, Portugal and further European markets" this August.
Super Meat Boy Ultra Edition coming to Europe and Australia
A recent press release published by video game distributor Lace Mamba Global is ... well, it's the best thing we've ever read. Imagine you've never heard of Super Meat Boy before, okay? It would seem like a pretty cut-and-dry announcement: "Lace Mamba Global is proud to announce that it is bringing the Ultra Edition of the independently developed gaming blockbuster Super Meat Boy to retail shelves in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, France, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia, and the Benelux countries." Pretty normal stuff, right? The presser reveals a Q3 2011 release window, and mentions that the company will announce pricing details in the near future. Okay, makes sense so far. Then, with no preface, it drops this: "In the platforming game Super Meat Boy, people play a boy without skin. His girlfriend, who is made of bandages, gets kidnapped by a fetus in a tuxedo wearing a top hat and a monocle." Hey, press release? Don't try to sneak that in there like it's not the craziest sentence anyone's ever written, okay?
Gray Matter demo now available in European Xbox Live regions
And now, for its next trick, Gray Matter will release an Xbox Live demo to several European regions. The long-awaited adventure game -- which you may have classified as "that new thing from Gabriel Knight author and designer, Jane Jensen" -- follows a young magician as she uncovers a puzzling paranormal situation near an English university. According to Major Nelson, the demo is available in the following regions: United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland, Germany, Spain and France. If you're quite tolerant of mice and keyboards, you can also grab a demo of the PC version from Big Download. The German release of Gray Matter (including English voiceovers) is already available, if a bit on the pricey side, and the English version is currently set to arrive in shops in February 2011. By then, there should be quite a few walkthroughs available to help those who struggle with point-and-click conundrums -- after all, how does a magician cope without an assistant?
Jane Jensen's Gray Matter PC demo available now
Look, we weren't going to say anything, but it's obvious that your brain isn't operating at maximum capacity today. You've probably got some residual tryptophan slurry sloshing around in there -- what you need is to really flex your cerebral muscles. There's really no better way for you to do so than to check out a recently released PC demo for Gabriel Knight creator Jane Jensen's long-in-development mystery/adventure title, Gray Matter. See, it's got the name of your brain goop right there in the title, so you know it's a thinking person's game. The game was actually released in Germany earlier this month, and will arrive in the rest of Europe next February -- however, no US release plans for the full title have been announced. To unravel the full mystery therein, you're going to have to pony up for the German version of the game (which includes a full English voice track) or import the game, which is, in and of itself, kind of a mystery. Oh, Jane Jensen. You got us again.
German version of Gray Matter available now, playable in English
Jane Jensen's adventure game Gray Matter was last given a February release date, following multiple delays. That release date is still accurate ... however, the game is also available now. Allow us to explain. While the launch date for the US and UK release is still months away, Gray Matter is now available in Germany, in both retail and downloadable formats. It features English voice acting, so you should be able to understand the story. In fact, the official site notes that the German version is "fully playable" in both English and German. The convenience of playing early doesn't come cheap, however: the Gamer Unlimited download costs €39.95 ($54).%Gallery-95686%
Gray Matter slips to February 2011
UK-based adventure game publisher Lace Mamba Global has announced another unfortunate "slippage" of Gray Matter. As developer WizarBox and co-publisher dtp entertainment work to get the hard-to-handle contents of Jane Jensen's game in order, Lace Mamba has "no alternative but to delay the release until the chosen date," according to an announcement. (Prior to today's delay, the game was scheduled for release this month.) The latest chosen date for both the PC and Xbox 360 versions? February 25, 2011 in the UK (which, by the standard retail calendar, would put Gray Matter in North America on February 22.) "[W]e now know for certain that the date we have is the date Gray Matter will be available," declared Lace Mamba's Jason Codd, perhaps jinxing the project again. "[D]ue to the tight time frames, and the need for more polishing of the game we had no alternative but to make a quick decision and delay the product until February," Codd explained. "This will give the development team more time in ensuring that the game measures up to the standards that have been set" -- now, are those the original 2004 standards, or ...?
Retail version of Machinarium comes with some extra goodies
If you haven't already been point-and-clicking away at Amanita Design's gorgeous adventure game Machinarium over the past few months since its digital release, you're gonna have even less of a chance to avoid it when it hits retail (in a box!) on March 5. Lace Mamba Global announced the re-release this morning, noting that the retail version comes packed with some extra bonuses -- a 54-page "concept art document" (seen below), a poster, a printed walkthrough and the game's soundtrack (standalone disc). If you needed any more reason to grab the $20 title, we have to imagine this bag full of goodies certainly can't hurt. %Gallery-83953%
