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GOG celebrates Halloween wrong with anti-scary games sale
GOG.com is putting a selection of Halloween-themed games on sale today and tomorrow, the Halloween theme being they're "not scary." Each of the 16 spine-soothing games is priced 50% off, and the hair-settling assortment features entries from Simon the Sorcerer, Worms, and Rayman to name a few.If you ask us, dark magic, weapon-wielding invertebrates, and a legless, armless, and neckless man with feet, hands, and a head that move independent of his body are all plenty scary, thank you very much.
Simon the Sorcerer materializes on iPhone
As inexplicable as the sudden resurgence of classic adventure games might be, the iPhone platform is experiencing a boom in remade point-and-clicks, with Secret of Monkey Island out now and Beneath a Steel Sky on the way. This week, iPhSoft, publisher of the iPhone release of Flight of the Amazon Queen, has released Adventure Soft's 1993 game Simon the Sorcerer on the App Store, ported from the voiced CD-ROM version using ScummVM. The publisher's site mentions that the sequel will be available soon, as well. At least this steady stream of newly available old games is making it easier to watch all the really new games move into 2010 ... right?Simon the Sorcerer 1 (iPhSoft, $4.99): [Via Pocket Gamer]
