Viva Media has announced its acquisition of Gray Matter for retail release in North America. Gray Matter is game that heralds the return of veteran developer Jane Jensen who is remembered for working on notable Sierra adventure game titles.
The game is scheduled to release online and at retail for the PC in February 2011.
Without any announcement to the contrary, we can assume the publisher Lace Mamba Global will be bringing Gray Matter to the European region (and therefore South African region) on their previously announced date of 25 February 2011.
This all bodes well for the release of the game, which has suffered numerous delays over the years, having been first announced back in 2003. Publisher and developer changes have plagued the project, until things settled with developer WizarBox and publisher dtp Entertainment. The delays may well be worth it though, as Jane Jensen has a history of designing great adventure games, and fans are eager to see a return to form.
Adventure gamers of the 1990’s era will likely recall Jane Jensen’s contributions to the genre – writing for Police Quest III and EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus, co-designing King’s Quest VI, and then designing the trilogy of critically acclaimed Gabriel Knight adventure games.
With the decline in popularity of adventure games through the late 90’s, a fourth Gabriel Knight was never commissioned. Jensen focused on her novel writing career, publishing two Gabriel Knight adaptations, and two original works, Millenium Rising aka Judgment Day and Dante’s Equation. The latter was nominated for the Philip K. Dick award.
Below is a trailer for the upcoming Gray Matter.
About Gray Matter
The story mixes eerie goings-on with supernatural events in best Jensen-style. Neurobiologist Dr. David Styles is one of the game’s central characters: since losing his wife in a horrible accident some several years ago, he has become a recluse, seldom leaving Dread Hill House, his English country estate.
When student and part-time street performer Samantha Everett shows up at his doorstep, she unexpectedly becomes his assistant. Hailing from America, she has been traveling through most of Europe the last couple years. Her first task: finding six test subjects at Oxford University for one of Styles experiments. The experiment starts off innocently enough, but then inexplicable incidents start mounting.
Players control both Dr. David Styles and Samantha Everett in their bid to uncover the secrets and find out the truth. Gray Matter tackles questions concerning the nature of reality and the power of the human mind in constructing the world we take for granted.
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