Awesome Adventure

After a false start on the PS3 follow up to Shadow of the Colossus is coming to the PS4. The Last Guardian has players guide a young boy and his companion – a giant, winged creature to solve puzzles and negotiate treacherous environments.

This mysterious upcoming PS4 title from developer The Chinese Room invites players to explore a lost community as they try to unravel their final days and what led to their demise and the end of the world.

From point-and-click pioneers Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick – the minds behind Maniac Mansion and The Secret of Monkey Island – comes a new point-and-click adventure game designed to look and play like the old ones.

While visiting Botswana’s Modisa Wildlife Project, adventurer JHawk Daily watched his friend Val say good morning to a young lion in the best possible way – with a huge hug. And yes, Val lived to see another day.

Rime is an exploration and puzzle game puts you in the shoes of a boy who wakes up on a deserted island. The boy soon finds an artifact that will help him manipulate time and space, and uncover the island’s “terrible secret.”

This short film by Kalum Ko looks at the mission that adventurer Bruce Kirkby undertook to cross the Georgia Straight from Vancouver to Victoria on a stand-up paddleboard, waxing philosophical on the true spirit of adventure along the way.

In this promo for outdoor wear outfitter The North Face, a familiar hero guides us through inspiring images and thoughts, encouraging us to explore and delight in the many wonders our universe has for us to experience.

Toren is visually stunning platform adventure puzzler developed by Brasil’s Swordtales. The game follows a girl on an epic journey of discovery as she climbs a massive tower. Coming soon to Windows, Mac and Linux.

(NSFW: Language) Play as Sherriff Bigby – aka the Big Bad Wolf – and protect your fellow fairy tale characters in The Wolf Among Us, a new point-and-click adventure game based on the Fables graphic novels. From Telltale Games.

This cinematic E3 trailer for Watch Dogs fills us in a little bit more on the backstory for this incredible looking action adventure. We’re wishing this was next-gen console footage, but word has it it’s pre-rendered CG.

The story trailer for Rain gives us another look at its intriguing visuals and gameplay mechanics. The puzzle adventure game will be released on the PS3 this fall. The song is Clair de Lune by Claude Debussy.

Find out a bit about Watch Dogs protagonist Aiden Pearce in the latest gameplay trailer for the visually stunning, open-world action adventure. We sure hope Amazon’s pricing for the PS4 version is just a placeholder.

Formerly known as Double Fine Adventure, Tim Schafer’s successfully crowdfunded point-and-click adventure game tells the story of a boy and girl living parallel lives, illustrated through Double Fine’s typically brilliant visuals.

A look at Rain, an upcoming puzzle adventure game for the PS3. The game is about a boy and a girl who are running from creatures who, like themselves, are only visible under rainfall, creating a unique gameplay dynamic.

If you haven’t read the book yet, the new trailer for Life of Pi will clue you in on how Pi ended up in his unusual predicament: stranded at sea with Richard Parker, a bengal tiger.

We’ve been looking forward for a long time to Ang Lee’s big screen interpretation of Yann Martel’s brilliant novel about a young man stranded at sea with only one other survivor – a Bengal tiger.

The Blu-ray box set Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventures includes razor-sharp remastered HD versions of all four Indy films, along with hours of special features and commentary.

(NSFW: Language) A surprise entry from E3 2012, residents of Chicago will immediately recognize the incredible photorealistic environments in Ubisoft’s cool new action adventure game, Watch Dogs.

The newest trailer for the The Hunger Games reveals more about the hero for those who have not read the books: a young woman who will do everything she can for the people she loves.

“You awake to find yourself in a dark room…” Sounds like the beginning of a horror story, but this adventure’s equal parts hilarious, frustrating and addictive. Be sure to leave annotations on.

The first trailer for the movie adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ sci-fi novel The Hunger Games. Jennifer Lawrence (X-Men: First Class) plays the heroine, teen-turned-gladiator Katniss Everdeen.

More is revealed in the second trailer for Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, as Holmes and Watson must contend with the criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty, Holmes’ evil, intellectual equal.

Gary Ross’ The Hunger Games tells the tale of teenage pawns who must fight with one another until one survivor remains, relying on raw instinct and making impossible choices. (Thanks Simon!)