#Screenshot: Broken Sword

Here's a classic quote from the original Broken Sword - Broken Sword - The Shadow of the Templars!
Just to be a more obscure, I decided to take it on the (not very well known) GBA port of this classic adventure game:

Being both an English and French speaker - bilingual - I always found this scene quite hilarious.

Basically, the beginning takes place in Paris, France.
People in the street use little bits of French in their dialogue. And this guy above says something that sounds so silly and stupid in French, yet perfectly correct grammatical. (it is an UK based game studio, Revolution Software, and they usually don't butcher non-English language unlike their American counterparts)

"Quelle bitte!"

Gamin' NEWS! Broken Sword 2 Remake!

This just got in!

 
A remake to an ol' 1997 classic 2D point and click adventure was just announced!
Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror - Remastered by Revolution Software, will be out soon on iPad / iPhone / iPod touch before Christmas and on PC & Mac "very early next year" in 2011 (probably on Wii too, and maybe DS as well, though not announced yet, or with the new DS coming out..they probably dropped it?). 

But fans of the Broken Sword series and who liked the "Director's Cut" of the previous game...you may not be super happy to notice this is a "Remastered" update and not a "Director's Cut" again.

Meaning, like Beneath A Steel Sky it won't add new scenes but just an updated visual.
The game will include an exclusive new interactive digital comic from Dave Gibbons!
It will also feature fully animated facial expressions, enhanced graphics, high quality music as well as a context-sensitive hint system, include an in-game achievement list and a diary.

No additional chapters :(

Here's some pictures:

(it's the Apple version that will be out soon...so no high res' here)

Source: News at Revolution Studios

Dave Gibbons - Digital Drawing

At the wacomeurope's youtube channel there's some very neat videos of artist Dave Gibbons drawing methods.

The man himself with a fantastic funny sculpt of Rorschach from monkeywiz's blog.

I really like the guy, one of my favorite artists and a very good writer too!
He's the other half behind the Watchmen, wrote my favorite issues of the Green Lantern Corps current run and worked on the artwork and graphics of the adventure game Beneath a Steel Sky for example.

If you want to check out his instructive videos, are interested in this artist's techniques or are just curious about drawing, hit the players below~