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- This Week on The Analog AntiquarianMay 08, 2026Jimmy Maher
Opus 1: The Comedy of Errors In other news, I’m afraid there will be no article next week, as my wife and I do some much-needed springtime home-and-garden work. I’ll see you in two weeks with some piping-hot fresh content — dealing very directly with games this time, I promise.
- The Mystery of Rennes-le-Château, Part 5: The Man Behind the CurtainMay 01, 2026Jimmy Maher
This series of articles chronicles the history, both real and pseudo, behind Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned. It is possible to trace the Plantard family tree a fair ways back without relying on the Lobineau dossier, but not as far back as the time when the Merovingian kings ruled […]
- The Mystery of Rennes-le-Château, Part 4: Non-Fiction Meets FictionApr 17, 2026Jimmy Maher
This series of articles chronicles the history, both real and pseudo, behind Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned. The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail was published by Jonathan Cape in Britain on January 18, 1982. Delacorte released an American edition five weeks later, under the punchier title of simply […]
- The Mystery of Rennes-le-Château, Part 3: A Secret HistoryApr 01, 2026Jimmy Maher
This series of articles chronicles the history, both real and pseudo, behind Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned. Henry Lincoln promised at the end of “The Priest, the Painter, and the Devil” that he would continue to investigate the case of François-Bérenger Saunière and Rennes-le-Château. He proved as good as […]
- The Mystery of Rennes-le-Château, Part 2: Secret Codes and Hidden MessagesMar 20, 2026Jimmy Maher
This series of articles chronicles the history, both real and pseudo, behind Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned. Rennes-le-Château enjoyed its first watershed moment as a media phenomenon when Albert Salamon wrote his newspaper articles in 1956. Its second came when a documentary about the village was aired on French […]
- The Mystery of Rennes-le-Château, Part 1: The Priest’s TreasureMar 06, 2026Jimmy Maher
This series of articles chronicles the history, both real and pseudo, behind Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned. Believe that there is a secret and you will feel an initiate. It doesn’t cost a thing. Create an enormous hope that can never be eradicated because there is no root. Ancestors […]
- Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the DamnedFeb 20, 2026Jimmy Maher
This article tells part of the story of Jane Jensen. I think I became convinced when I went to CES [in January of 1997] and I walked around the show looking at all these titles that were the big new things, and not one screen had full-motion video. I realized that if I wanted anyone […]
- 1998 Ebook!Feb 16, 2026Jimmy Maher
Hi, folks… Just a quick note to inform you that the ebook for 1998 is now available on the usual page. I’m sorry this was so long in coming. I owe a huge thanks to my hiking buddy Stefaan Rillaert, who adapted Richard Lindner’s original scripts to run on Linux instead of Windows. We’ve elected […]
- Ultima IXFeb 06, 2026Jimmy Maher
This article tells part of the story of the Ultima series. Years ago, [Origin Systems] released Strike Commander, a high-concept flight sim that, while very entertaining from a purely theoretical point of view, was so resource-demanding that no one in the country actually owned a machine that could play it. Later, in Ultima VIII, the […]
- Omikron: The Nomad SoulJan 23, 2026Jimmy Maher
The idea of being in the body of a guy and making love to his wife — when she believes you’re her husband, even though you’re not — was a very strange position to be in. That’s exactly the kind of thing I try to explore in all my games today. — David Cage, speaking […]