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The Journey Down from SkyGoblin has joined Macgamestore.com's list of game titles. The first episode of the point-and-click adventure follows the exploits of Bwana and Kito as they work to uncover the fate of their long lost father.

In a shady corner of Kingsport Bay, at the outskirts of St Armando, Bwana and his trusted sidekick Kito struggle to make ends meet at their run-down gas station. Little do they know that they are about to be thrown into a spine-tingling adventure that will take them far from home and right into a twisting plot of corruption and danger.
In the first chapter of The Journey Down, the search for a lost journal leads to forgotten secrets of the mysterious Underland. Follow Bwana and Kito as they puzzle their way forward and begin to uncover the true fate of their long lost father, Captain Kaonandodo.

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Edge Magazine has posted a new review of the recently released Diablo III from Blizzard Entertainment. The long awaited third installment in the action RPG series once again returns players to the demon plagued world of Sanctuary.

From the review:

Diablo III is filled with marvels – its fantasy world has been redrawn in rich colours and mineral textures, eschewing po-faced Tolkien influences for the pulpiness of a horror comic as it paints its forests and oases in deep turquoises and throbbing reds. These environments provide pacing as well as atmosphere, and quests send you between towns, vast explorative areas, and a variety of internal spaces that defy the ‘dungeon’ classification. Blizzard’s tilesets can handle anything from the balanced architecture of cathedrals to the organic sprawl of spiders’ nests, and it’s nearly impossible to tell when you’ve switched between designed landscapes and randomisation.

The game’s filled with detailing, too, from midnight springs turning jerry-rigged waterwheels to useful clutter, such as walls and chandeliers primed to collapse on your foes. The monsters, meanwhile, are a wonder to behold and a joy to destroy, whether they’re Writhing Deceivers (fat, snake-bodied menaces wriggling on scaly bellies) or Grotesques (tottering doughballs that explode when killed and can set off chain reactions). Dune Dervishes, meanwhile, are spectral hard men who spin at you with bladed skirts. They’re joined, in the space of just a single area, by a set of gruesome delights bearing names such as Gore Harrier, Spine Hewer and Copperfang Lurker. There’s certainly nothing wrong with Diablo’s imagination.

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Worthplaying recently posted some new screenshots of Fatshark's upcoming squad based RPG, Krater. The top down game takes place inside a giant impact crater where the inhabitants live on in the aftermath of a bomb. The game will be available for Windows PCs on June 12, while a Mac version will be available in July.

THE WORLD AND ITS INHABITANTS

Krater takes place in a lush post-apocalyptic game world, a gigantic impact crater where cities and even nations have has been built on the aftermath of a bomb. It is a colorful game exeperince, where genre-typical deserts are replaced by nordic pine forests and red wooden cottages.

BASIC GAME CONCEPT

It combines the combat mechanics of action-rpgs with the top-down tactics of the classic old-school games such as Syndicate and X-Com. The rich world opens up for the players via exploration of the immense world map.

Extensive crafting (craft unique abilities, weapons and items) and character persistence where both injuries and experience work in conjunction are key elements to evolve your team over time and get ready to enter into the end-game.

CORE MECHANICS

• Extensive crafting (craft unique abilities, weapons and items)
  
• Character persistence where both injuries and experience work in conjunction to evolve your team over time.
  
• Simultaneously control a squad of 3 characters chosen from 4 different main classes with a multitude of specializations.
  
• Prepare your team of Freediggers for the end-game and try to get as deep as you can into the main shaft, a dungeon crawler of massive proportions.
  
• Singleplayer/multiplayer which blend seamless with each other. Use your progress from the single player campaign in coop missions and the other way around.

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The digital download version of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is now available for purchase from Macgamestore.com. Originally developed by Bioware, and brought to Mac by Aspyr Media, the action RPG takes place 4,000 years before the time of the films and puts players in the role of a Jedi destined to determine the fate of a galaxy.

It is four thousand years before the Galactic Empire and hundreds of Jedi Knights have fallen in battle against the ruthless Sith. As the last hope of the Jedi, you must lead a band of freedom fighters in an epic struggle to save the galaxy.

Can you master the awesome power of the Force on your quest to save the Republic? Or will you fall to the lure of the dark side? Hero or villain, savior or conqueror…you must choose wisely as you alone will determine the destiny of the entire galaxy!

Features:

• Immersive, action-packed Star Wars role-playing experience with customizable and evolving playable characters.
  
• Choose from nine customizable characters to build your party of three adventurers, including humans, droids, Twi’leks, Wookiees and more.
  
• Journey spans seven different worlds including Tatooine, Sith world of Korriban, Jedi Academy on Dantooine and Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk.

Requirements:

• Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
  
• Processor: Intel chipset
  
• CPU Speed: 1.8 GHz or faster
  
• Memory: 512 MB or higher
  
• Hard Disk Space: 5.0 GB free disk space
  
• Video Card (ATI): Radeon X1600
  
• Video Card (NVidia): GeForce 7300
  
• Video Memory (VRam): 128 MB
  
• Supported Video cards:
  • NVIDIA GeForce® 7300, 7600, 8600, 8800, 9400, 9600, GT 120, Quadro FX 4500
    
  • ATI Radeon X1600, X1900, HD 2400, HD 2600, HD 3870, HD 4670, HD 4850
• NOTICE: Intel integrated video chipsets are not supported.

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