Inside Mac Games has word that MacPlay has released a demo of the Macintosh port of realMYST, the 3D update to Myst. To snag this demo, head on over to MacGameFiles.com.

The Watchmaker - The Electric Playground

Microsoft has released the first movie footage of the console adventure Shenmue II. The movie runs at 1:49 minutes, and focuses on early footage of the Dreamcast version. Shenmue II is expected to ship in early October.

Gamer's Hell has posted an interview with Stephen Carrière, the Creative Director Arxel Tribe, talking about their upcoming adventure Ring 2. Here's an excerpt from the interview:

Ring 2 seems to focus more on the artistic side of graphics and sounds, would you care to elaborate on that?

We like to think of Ring 2 as an “author’s game”. Philippe Druillet’s vision of the saga is really giving the game a unique visual identity. We are offering clearly a Tale in the old sense of the world. And it is a tale that we think of as one of the quintessential ones. As for the music, well it is of course a pleasure to have Wagner’s magnificent composition as a soundtrack. I’d like to add that we tried our best to animate those backgrounds adding special effects and sprites so that the global experience become a much more lively one.

1C has posted a patch for their newly released point'n'click Jazz and Faust. The patch is available for the US, Russian and Czech and Hungarian versions, and mainly fixes problems with the ATI cards.

French game developer Cryo and its Cryonetworks subsidiary have officially filed for bankruptcy today. Cryo is the developer of the Atlantis series, as well as Arthur's Knight and other first-person adventures.

Tony Tough and the Night of the Roasted Moths is a comedy 2D point-and-click adventure. It was released in a few European countries, but is now coming to the US thanks to Got Game Entertainment picking up the publishing rights. Gamershell.com has posted an interview with the creators.

Correction: I previously made a huge typo by writing 'not coming' instead of 'now coming'. Tony Tough IS coming to the US and will be published by Got Game. Apologies!