Readers will know I’m not that impressed with the Doctor Who adventure games for the PC. To be brutally honest, I still haven’t finished the first one. And not because it’s hard — it’s actually quite childish, which is half the problem I have with it. Anyway, new has just come in about the third [...]
As you all saw, I purchased Doctor Who: The Adventure Games Episode 1: City of the Daleks just recently and in between my busy day to day work and dazzling social life (or something along those lines), have finally had a chance to start playing. My first impressions are: The voice acting is great. It’s [...]
Remember the Doctor Who Adventure games which got released in the UK for free, but the rest of the world was barred from having them — and then told when they became available, we’d have to pay for them? Well, things aren’t as bad as they once seemed. The games have popped up on Direct2Drive [...]
Regular readers will know there’s a series of slightly clunky-looking Doctor Who adventure games out there which, for the longest time, appeared as if they were going to be given away free from the BBC website. Closer to launch (well, let’s be honest, at launch), they were revealed to be UK-only, and I had my [...]
I have absolutely no doubt that Doctor Who fans outside the UK are going to be a little annoyed today with the Doctor Who adventure games going live… but only for UK residents. Anyone trying to access the games from outside the UK gets the message: If you live outside the UK, the first Adventure [...]
Charles Cecil, one of the producers of the recently announced Doctor Who: The Adventure Games, reckons the games will expand the audience for episodic games. “The episodic game format has the benefit that it delivers content in chunks that can be completed in a few hours,” said Cecil. “It then allows the release of each [...]
Curious about the upcoming Doctor Who PC adventure games? The footage will be shown after tomorrow’s TV episode, Victory of the Daleks. “Why would the first footage of Doctor Who: The Adventure Games be screened after this particular episode? Find out on Saturday night!” the Beeb teases with the subtlety of a flying bus. The [...]
Doctor Who fandom has been talking about new PC games featuring our hero for years with lots of rumour and innuendo thrown in along the way. Finally, however, we have some concrete information regarding what will be happening. There are going to be four Doctor Who adventure games released this year, for download from the [...]
There was a rash of news stories in January or thereabouts regarding the BBC making a Doctor Who-themed video game. I even gave my thoughts on a Who video game here. Anyway, fast-forward to today and the news is back — and with just a sniff of controversy to boot. You see, whilst the BBC [...]
Doctor Who videogames, for those of you under the age of 25, aren’t a new concept. I recall playing one on my Commodore 64 “back in the day” called Doctor Who and the Mines of Terror long before many of you were even born (wow, that makes me feel old, maybe I shouldn’t have brought [...]
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