BitComposer Games announced today that its developing a new horror adventure game for the PC called Alter Ego in Q1 2010. Alter Ego is the latest offering from the Czech studios Future Games, who were responsible for the adventure titles Black Mirror and Nibiru.

The "grand finale" of Tales of Monkey Island from developer Telltale Games is dropping anchor on PC this December 8th. An early Xmas gift.

Chapter 5 is named 'Rise of the Pirate God', and will be answering many questions for fans of Guybrush Threepwood, our hero pirate extraordinaire.

While LucasArts were busy resurrecting Monkey Island with the Special Edition, which released this summer, a dev found some gems.

Designer Adam Bormann was riffling through old SCUMM code and come across loads of old stuff, just "commented out" and not removed.

The OneBigGame initiative donates revenue from games to charities aimed at helping children, and now they've signed up Charles Cecil.

The industry veteran has got UK-based Revolution Software and "come up with a back-story" to Minesweeper, of all things.

The clay animation duo has hit two decades old and in celebration, developer Telltale Games is giving an entire episode away for free.

Only for this week though, as well as discounting the full Wallace & Gromit season, with donations given to charities for each sale made.

EA has released a new trailer for the remake of American McGee's Alice, and it looks very creepy indeed.

This one is for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360, but it won't be released until 2011.

Deep Silver and Daedalic today announced that The Whispered World will be released in the UK and Europe on February 12th, 2010.

In classic point and click tradition, gamers steer Sadwick and his companion Spot through the game. Little Spot never leaves Sadwick's side and is integral to solving many puzzles. He can take on many different forms throughout the game, which the player can pick and choose at will, once they have been learned. Hand-painted backgrounds filled with animated details and lovingly crafted characters in the style of classic animated movies like "Spirited Away" bring the story to life. "The Whispered World" mixes fairy-tale elements with melancholic tones to create a tale of epic proportions.

Adventure creator Charles Cecil, and fellow genre fan Dave Gibbons, are teaming up again as they work on "a new adventure game" together. They've many "ideas for premises".

In the past this pairing has given us 'Beneath a Steel Sky' and recently it has been reworked for the iPhone, a platform that Cecil advises "really brave" wannabe developers to go for.

Developer Telltale Games, who've risen to prominence thanks to their resurrection of classic franchises in episodic form, have got something in the works that's 'mind blowing'.

Unfortunately we won't be told what it is, at least not yet. The studio is busy "out in the streets," chatting with folks about franchises. So far they've brought back two LucasArts classics.

German publisher dtp entertainment has announced that it will release Gray Matter, an upcoming adventure game for PC from cult writer Jane Jenson, in March 2010.

The game was firstly delayed from late 2007 into 2008, and then received further delays into 2009 when dtp dropped the Hungarian developer with Wizarbox, a French developer. With all these delays taking place, could March 2010 be the final date?

Konami today revealed plans to revive their 16-bit Rocket Knight series on the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.

Konami producer Tomm Hullet told 1UP, "The idea is that there haven't been any games these past 15 years simply because Sparkster hasn't had any adventures."

Adventure man Dave Grossman has been evasive in his reply to the question many fans want answered, and that is will Day of the Tentacle return? He points to LucasArts.

The reason Monkey Island has taken so long to be revived is because LucasArts "were reluctant." When Darrell Rodriguez stepped in, things got moving on old adventure IP again.

The highly acclaimed indie developed videogame The Shivah is available for free, in honour of the Jewish tradition of Yom Kippur. The game follows Rabbi Russell Stone.

In order to claim the free copy of the game you simply visit the official site and enter 'FreeShivah' as the coupon code. The offer ends once Yom Kippur does, which is today sometime.

The impending release of the indie developed Machinarium, a puzzle adventure game, is now heading to PC desktops for October 16th for under 20 bucks. It's got robots in it.

The point-and-click adventure is from Amanita Design, who developed Samorost. Machinarium can be bought through the official site, on Steam or Impulse. A trailer is up.

In celebration of "Talk Like a Pirate Day", developer Telltale Games will be giving away the first episodic adventure of Tales of Monkey Island free. It be a time limited offer, it be.

In their quest to spread pirate lingo around the globe, from September 19th at 12:01 am GMT, gamers can get hold of the "complete first chapter". This free swag runs for "one day only."

Developer Telltale Games have slapped a September 29th date on 'Lair of the Leviathan', which is the third episode in the current running season of Tales of Monkey Island.

They have yet to reveal any juicy plot but do tease with a comical flash video, summing up all the fan speculation. Three screens are out, with one showing a leviathan-sized creature.

The adventure developer Telltale Games, developer of Sam & Max and Tales of Monkey Island, has revealed they'll be announcing some new things "in the next few months".

Those include new titles from existing properties, as well as entirely news one and even projects outside of comedy. Studio boss Dan Connors points toward Heavy Rain, and drama.

The Path developer Tale of Tales' next game will be retailing October 5th. It's called Fatale and based around Oscar Wilde's Salome; some chick who dances for King Herod.

In exchange for said dance she wants the head of John the Baptist. The devs say Fatale is "an interactive vignette in real-time 3D", and Silent Hill's Takayashi Sato designed Salome.

Funcom today announced a new development studio in Montreal, where it plans to build a strong development team that will work on several games in its portfolio.

The firm is going to be at PAX on Friday showing the new Age of Conan add-on and The Secret World. We'll be there to check both of these games, so expect previews to be published after the weekend.

Trine has already been released on the PC (You can read our review here), but what about the PlayStation 3 version? Nobilis told Strategy Informer that it doesn't have a firm date yet, but hopes the game will be available in September.

"Concerning the release of Trine for the PS3 I do not have a firm date yet unfortunately. However it is likely that it will be released in September." said a spokesperson.