“It was also crucial to emphasize to him that while having the biggest military is cool and useful, the game isn't reductive: that's not the only way to win. This is a pretty big idea, especially for a new player. He wanted to know what genre the game was, and I told him that its genre was Civilization, and the victory condition is to create something of lasting value.” -          ... more.

Telltale Games announced Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent today. Telltale, the developers of the recent Sam and Max games, is working with cartoonist Graham Annable to create a game inspired by the Professor Layton series. This title focuses on Nelson Tethers, the only FBI agent in the puzzle division, trying to figure out a mystery concerning the White House's eraser supplier and encounters with the ... more.