Grouse beta

For the first time in one BILLION years, there's a new AGS Beta. This is the first official non-CJ version. Go over and check it out in the thread here.

Vince sweeps the floor

No, he hasn't given up game making to become the AGS janitor, but instead he has won everything at the AGS Awards, including host bicilotti's hand in marriage (this may be made up)! Resonance swept pretty much every category it was in for, except best player character. You can see the full IRC Award log here. A few people got dressed up for the Awards too with special forum avatars.

Grundislav managed to grab both player and NPC awards, Ben304 got the short game gong and Lifetime Achievement, CaptainD won best demo (and thinks it means doom for his game), Ghost got best non-adventure, and JJS won the Innovation award for his awesome platform porting abilities. And of course, Resonance was helped by its awesome team including Nikolas Sideris, Shane Stevens, Dave and Janet and many others.

NB Winning 12 awards in one ceremony is a new record: well done Mr W!

Kickstart the Himalayas

Himalaya are just short of their Kickstarter stretch goal with under 12 hours to go. If you want to support the Initiation of  a Mage, go and help them out!

AGS Awards Ceremony date set

What are you doing Saturday night? Not any more... now you are attending the AGS Awards:

Sat 23 March 2013, 08:00 PM UK Time

 join the AGSA chat ( #AGS on irc.agsarchives.com with any client you like, like XChat ).
    - Check here for a browser based experience.

See the forum thread for more info

Whoa, Nelly

Ali announced Nelly 2. Will she sweep the 2013 AGS Awards next year like the first game did? Well, depends on the fundraising, as this is a commercial venture this time.

What do you do after BJ?

Grundislav has announced his first commercial game On Golden Pond A Golden Wake.

Meanwhile in AdventureGamers land, Steve Brown presents the usual roundup of January 's freeware adventures. As is frequently the case, a bunch of AGS games are included.

Final voting open

You've probably already seen it, but the AGS Awards final voting is now open here.

Meanwhile, AdventureGamers have started handing out their "Aggies" and there's quite a few AGS games getting mentions.