


5 months ago

Technobabylon: Birthright is Wadjet’s first 3D adventure game

After 13 years of making and publishing adventure games in ye olde 2D waye, Wadjet Eye Games have revealed they're taking their first steps into the so-called "third dimension" with Technobabylon: Birthright, a follow-up to 2015's swell sci-fi adventure game Technobabylon. Hey, 'retro' is a moving target. Wadjet have shared a few screens showing what developers Technocrat Games are up to and coo, that's not…

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3 years ago

Feature: Mindjacked

Have You Played… Technobabylon?

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. I played sci-fi point and click adventure Technobabylon [official site] toward the tail end of last year, having saved it for a rainy day. My memories of it already seem decades old and that's due to the quality of the world-building. I feel…

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4 years ago

Feature: Playing Catch (Up)

The Games That Got Away In 2015


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Feature: Entrancing

Technobabylon review


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Free To Play: Demo Technobabylon Before It Launches

You've got a few days to wait before Technobabylon [official site] officially launches on Steam, but in the meantime publishers Wadjet Eye have sounded the Free Stuff klaxon and are offering a tasty morcel of demo for the price of a mere link click. Remember this game? It might jog your memory if I say "that thing what was Blade Runner meets Police Quest." Technobabylon is essentially a throwback…

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Electric Dreams: Technobabylon Is Blade Runner Meets Police Quest

Like many of the liberal college WASPs of my generation I am a dedicated and loyal follower of cyberpunk. First, a fact: The birth place of cyberpunk is my birth place too, which can only be a sign of my deep allegiance to West Coast Neuromancy. So full of love am I, sometimes I'll find myself a big metallic collander to put over my head…

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5 years ago

Dystopian Pointy Clicks: Wadjet Announce Technobabylon

I've played enough games where handing control of our lives to an omnipresent AI leads to a horrible dystopia to know that, when one is inevitably created, I really shouldn't sign up. I will, of course. It'll sound exciting, I'll be curious, it'll have some lousy invitation system to ensure everyone's always talking about it, and I'll cave to peer pressure. Fifty years later, the…

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