GamersHell reports: "Lighthouse Interactive and dtp Entertainment AG have announced that Overclocked, illustrating this psychological thriller from House of Tales, the makers of The Moment of Silence, will begin shipping to major retail stores in Canada and the U.S. on March 31, 2008. You will play as David Mc Namara, combat psychiatrist, as well as five other pacients who try to recover their memory through flashbacks. The memories are explored by the player in backward chronological order � the further players progress in the game, the further back in time he advances".
A German demo is locally mirrored and the link is in the alternative source.
AMD’s RX 460 landed today, and there have been announcements from a number of partner companies, including Asus, Gigabyte, Sapphire, PowerColor and XFX. Curiously, MSI doesn’t seem interested in telling the world that it released one too.
Italian overclocker Pixy, one of the ten best participants HWBot Overclockers League, managed to win the “gold” in a benchmark Cinebench R11.5 and Intel XTU in the category of six-core processors. Results shown ( 18,69 and 1,851 points, respectively) at the same time are the best for all desktop CPU, including the eight-core.
While far from the popularity of its heyday, the point and click genre is still very much alive for those who know where to look. Or perhaps, more accurately, for those with PCs. The welcome return of Sam & Max with their bite-size episodic adventures might have something to do with granting the ailing genre a new lease on life, although at the same time, there are those out there looking to do something a little different than the usual blend of witty one-liners and obscure inventory puzzles.
Enter Overclocked, a game you probably haven't heard of from a developer about whom you likely know equally as little. The best way to describe it is probably as a point and click version of the excellent Fahrenheit, which in itself owed more than a little to the classic adventure genre. From the sombre mood to the focus on characters and interaction, this is a far cry from the Monkey Islands and Broken Swords of this world and the puzzles reflect this...
