GamesRadar - Lock's Quest

RPG Deals 11/22 - 11/25 + Black Friday Weekend (News)

Nov 23, 2009

Russ has the RPG enthusiast in mind when he scopes out deals all over the place, saying, "Lots this week, unsurprisingly. The better deals will be this weekend, but there are still plenty of deals to take advantage of this week. As a result, simple lists are in effect."

Lock's Quest (Review)

Sep 26, 2008

Lock’s Quest has got the ingredients for a handheld sleeper hit on lockdown: intuitive touch screen controls, twist-filled wartime drama, low-tech but charming 2D graphics and inventive gameplay that takes a formula already scientifically proven to be infectiously addictive and adds twists, surprises and depth to it. ...

Lock's Quest (Screenshots)

Sep 26, 2008

TalkRadar 18 (Feature)

Sep 12, 2008

After a long two-week absence, Shane Patterson rejoins the crew just in time to celebrate TalkRadar’s 18th birthday. With our podcast finally old enough to vote, buy cigarettes and go to the mall by itself, we briefly put aside our usual yammering for a weirdly serious talk about the ethics of software piracy. ...

Drawn To Life, Lock's Quest Dev Planning Full Console Title (News)

Sep 9, 2008

Gamasutra writes: "Late last year, independent developer 5TH Cell released the unusual Nintendo DS adventure/platformer Drawn to Life, which allows players to draw their own hero and weapons directly on the system's touch screen. Just a year later, on September 8, it will release Lock's Quest, a hybrid that fuses tower defense-style strategy with exploration-driven adventure gameplay.

Company co-founder and creative director Jeremiah Slaczka, speaking to Gamasutra at the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle, hopes the considerably different gameplay of the two titles will paint 5TH Cell as a wide-reaching studio."

Next-Gen's 30 most anticipated games of E3 (Feature)

Jul 7, 2008

In choosing games for this list, we kept an eye on games most likely to succeed at the market. We also tried to keep in mind potential critical reception based on developer track record, previous franchise performance, and how the titles have been presented in the media thus far. Naturally we also picked the titles we are most excited to play at the show, but in short, these are the games to keep an eye on, because these are the games that ...

Lock's Quest - hands-on (Preview)

Apr 4, 2008

Drawn to Life developer, 5th Cell has another promising DS title up its sleeve that’s worth keeping an eye on. Lock's Quest will place you in the role of Lock. He’s an Archineer - that’s part architect, part engineer - who’s charged with defending his town from an invading clockwork army. Led by the undeniably evil Lord Agony, the clockworks are after your hometown’s rich Source wells. ...