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Adventure games website
Adventure Gamers
Type of site
Gaming website URL
www .adventuregamers .com Commercial No Launched March 1999; 25 years ago (1999-03 )
Adventure Gamers is a
computer game
website created by Marek Bronstring in March 1999
[1] dedicated to the genre of
adventure games . It publishes reviews and previews of adventure games, as well as opinion articles and interviews with
game designers .
The site's reviews have been quoted on many adventure game box covers,
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
[7] and it is listed as a trusted reviewer on
CNET's
Metacritic and
GameRankings . Adventure Gamers was also referenced in the print book
Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts .
[8]
Adventure Gamers is respected by developers of adventure games.
Ragnar Tornquist , the creator of the adventure games
The Longest Journey and
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey , has stated that the reviews on Adventure Gamers are "very important to [him]".
[9] In addition,
Straandlooper , the developer of
Hector: Badge of Carnage , called Adventure Gamers "one of the foremost and widely respected websites about adventure games".
[10]
The Aggie Awards
Every year starting from 2009, Adventure Gamers hosts the Aggie Awards, which award adventure games of the previous year
[a] for their merits in several categories from concept, art direction, and story, to the adventure game of the year. The categories are divided in choices made by website staff and by readers. These awards are held in high regard by the companies[
citation needed ] who receive them, as they are featured on official covers of those games.
[11]
See also
Notes
References
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"Archived copy" . www.adventuregamer.com . Archived from
the original on 26 April 2001. Retrieved 11 January 2022 . {{
cite web }}
: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (
link )
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Box art for AGON: the Mysterious Codex
Archived 2015-04-02 at the
Wayback Machine featuring a quote from Adventure Gamers
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Box art for Ankh
Archived 2015-04-02 at the
Wayback Machine featuring a quote from Adventure Gamers
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Box art for Missing
Archived 2012-10-23 at the
Wayback Machine featuring a quote from Adventure Gamers
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Box art for Scratches
Archived 2015-04-02 at the
Wayback Machine featuring a quote from Adventure Gamers
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Box art for Syberia
Archived 2012-10-23 at the
Wayback Machine featuring a quote from Adventure Gamers
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Box art for The Longest Journey
Archived 2012-10-23 at the
Wayback Machine featuring a quote from Adventure Gamer
^ Smith, Rob (2008). Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts .
Chronicle Books .
ISBN
978-0-8118-6184-7 .
^
"Dreamfall - Update 12" .
Ragnar Tornquist .
Archived from the original on 2011-10-13. Retrieved 2011-11-30 .
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"Badge of Carnage on Adventure Gamers" .
Straandlooper . Archived from
the original on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2011-11-30 .
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Box art for Tales of Monkey Island
Archived 2014-10-22 at the
Wayback Machine featuring the Aggie Award for Best Adventure of the Year
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"2008 Aggie Awards" . February 18, 2009.
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"2009 Aggie Awards" . February 17, 2010.
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"2010 Aggie Awards" . February 16, 2011.
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"2011 Aggie Awards" . February 15, 2012.
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"2012 Aggie Awards" . February 20, 2013.
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"2013 Aggie Awards" . February 19, 2014.
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"The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2014" . February 18, 2015.
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"The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2015" . February 24, 2016.
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"The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2016" . February 22, 2017.
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"The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2017" . February 21, 2018.
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"The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2018" . February 22, 2019.
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"The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2019" . February 7, 2020.
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"The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2020" . February 19, 2021.
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"The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2021" . February 18, 2022.
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"The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2022" . February 24, 2023.
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"The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2023" . February 6, 2024.
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