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Avernum: Escape From the Pit for OS X review

Avernum: Escape from the Pit

Genre: Role-Playing game (RPG) Format: Download and CD Developer: Spiderweb Software Mac Publisher: Spiderweb Software System Requirements: Mac OS X v10.4 or later, 800 MHz processor (minimum 1.6 GHz processor recommended), video card or processor with OpenGL support and 32 MB video RAM (64 MB recommended), 512 MB RAM, 200 MB hard disk space, and more »

Spiderweb Software releases Avernum: Escape From The Pit

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Spiderweb Software has released Avernum: Escape From The Pit for the Macintosh, a role-playing game which tells an epic story of a world far beneath the surface. The first game in a new trilogy, you’ll experience life in Avernum as you struggle for survival against your many enemies, look for a way to escape, and even get revenge on the cruel Emperor Hawthorne of the Empire who cast you and so many others underground.

Appletell previews Avernum: Escape From the Pit

Avernum: Escape From the Pit from Spiderweb Software is due to be released before the end of the year, just in time for Santa Claus to (digitally) deliver. If you’re a fan of adventure games, role-playing games, and/or any game that features turn-based combat and an epic story with multiple endings, dozens of quests, and innovative character creation, then you should be eagerly counting down the days.

Avadon: The Black Fortress now available on Steam

Avadon: The Black Fortress—an epic, old-school role playing game—is now available on Steam for both Mac and Windows for a limited time price of $8.99,10% off the regular price of $9.99. If you read Appletell’s review and thought The Black Fortress looked interesting, but you held back because of the cost, this is a great time to buy a game that will provide a lot of enjoyment.

Spiderweb Software announces Avernum: Escape From The Pit

Avernum: Escape From the Pit is a ground-up rewrite of Spiderweb Software’s popular game Avernum which was released in 1999. Fight to complete up to three game-winning quests. Explore a massive nation of tunnels and caverns, seeking out eighty towns and dungeons. Master over 50 spells and battle disciplines and hunt for hundreds of magical artifacts.

Avadon: The Black Fortress HD now available for iPad

Spiderweb Software, Inc., has been releasing some of the best old-school RPGs for the Macintosh for many years. And now, they’re brining their epic, fantasy role-playing games to a new audience with the release of Avadon: The Black Fortress HD for iPad. Adventure through a strange and dangerous world where you are a spy and a warrior, tasked to fight the enemies of your homeland.

Avadon – The Black Fortress for Mac OS X review

The first day on the job is tough for everyone, especially when you’re tasked with making a very angry dragon happy. Then you have to catch a dangerous magical beast followed by a diplomatic mission where peace is an illusion. In Avadon – The Black Fortress, you play a Hand of Avadon whose task it is to preserve the peace of The Pact from enemies both within and without. Can you use the power you’ve been given wisely?

Spiderweb Software brings RPGs to the Mac App Store

Spiderweb Software, Inc., one of our favorite RPG developers, has announced plans to bring their games to the Mac App Store. And to kick things off, their latest title—Avadon: The Black Fortress—is available now. In Avadon “… you are a spy and warrior who must fight the enemies of your homeland. As a servant of the Black Fortress, your word is law. Gain power and influence, experience an exciting adventure, and battle a conspiracy to destroy your people.”

Spiderweb Software releases Avadon: The Black Fortress

Spiderweb Software recently released Avadon: The Black Fortress, a role-playing fantasy game which puts you in the role of a loyal servant of Avadon with limitless power to enforce its authority. You’ll have to fight titans, deal with capricious dragons, hunt down magical beasts, and—before long—uncover a conspiracy to destroy the fragile peace. The choices you make will determine what happens to Avadon and to you.

Avadon: The Black Fortress preview

Jeff Vogel and Spiderweb Software are about to unveil Avadon: The Black Fortress, the first game in a new fantasy role-playing adventure series set in the land of Lynaeus. In it, you are a member of the Pact, which consists of an alliance of five countries who are banded together against many enemies who seek to destroy them. Unfortunately, the Pact countries hate each other almost as much.