Almost every section of the Official GK3 Site has been updated.

Updates: Adam Bormann, Design Assistant, gives us a progress report


Characters: Two new characters, Abbè Arnaud and Prince James


Cast: The list has been updated to show the voices of the new characters


Jane Jensen: a new interview added to the list


Team: Mike McMillen's profile returns, and new profiles are posted for Daryl Affleck, Ethan Walker, Rob Kenny, Ray Bornstein, Steve Conrad, Peter Freese, and Steven Hill


Links: The link to Gabriel Knight Mysteries has been updated

The international collaboration formerly known as the Adventure Review Collaboration has reorganized as the Adventure Collective. The new site has retained all of the reviews from the old Adventure Review site, but now features previews and articles, plus a very nice links section. Currently there is an interesting three-part article exploring the question of what makes an ideal adventure game. I also noticed that they are looking for submissions of previews for various upcoming games including GK3. Check out the Previews section of the site for more details.

Two more interviews with Jane Jensen have been posted: one at 3DNews.net and the other at 3D Rage.

Jane Jensen will be at GenCon in Milwaukee from August 5th through August 8th. She will be showing off the nearly completed GK3 at the Sierra Studios booth and promoting her new novel Millenium Rising at the Dell Ray booth. Copies of the novel will be on sale there. For more info about GenCon, check out http://www.andonunlimited.com/. You'll find a review of Millenium Rising at Amazon.com.

GK fans, it's time to flex your creative muscles! Madwoman is hosting a fic challenge at The Attic.

Write a SHORT STORY (less than 7,500 words, please) speculating on how the Schattenjägers came to possess the talisman. You can submit the story via an email to me, or just post it on the Blake Backlash Mysteries. Simple enough? The Attic will archive and link the best stories on the main page for a WHOLE MONTH. Yes, you can be an ATTIC MONTHLY FEATURE -- just write a story about the origins of the Schattenjägers' talisman.

Can't wait to see what fans come up with! Also, check out Blake Backlash Mysteries to read some terrific new fanfics!

Fans of the webzine Computer Game Music Monthly may have been wondering where the new issue is. The site is out of commission for a year, while the editor, Joonas Linkola, serves in the Finnish army. He plans to continue work on the site when he returns.

Adam Bormann posted the following Tuesday on the Gabriel Knight forum:

Here's a very brief update on what's going on in development this week:

1) The programmers are implimenting and debugging the options screens, save/restore games, installation, and anywhere else QA has reported bugs.
2) The environment artists are finishing up the lighting on the scenes, and fixing little things here and there.
3) The animators are putting finishing touches on the pre-rendered movies for the game.
4) The scripters are working out bugs in logic and scripts.
5) Jane and QA are playing, testing, and re-testing.
6) David is finishing up putting music and sound effects in the movies and the game.
7) I'm putting the finishing touches on the manual, and getting stuff ready to send to the ESRB ratings board, as well as my many scripting tasks.

Hope this helps keep you guys informed!

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Adam D. Bormann
Design/Production Assistant
Gabriel Knight: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned

GameSpot has a new 3D Model Gallery. Now you can examine 3D models of Gabe and Grace from any angle and get a better feel for their 3D incarnations.

The box art for GK3 has been unveiled, and there's been a lot of discussion about it this past week on the Gabriel Knight forum.

Several GK fan sites have been updated recently:

The Domain of Schattenjägers


The Unofficial Gabriel Knight Homepage


Gabriel's Domain


Schloss Ritter: Ancestral Residence of the Schattenjägers


Baron Friedrich von Glower


Red Dog's Gabriel Knight Page


Gabriel Knight Mysteries Homepage

Computer Games Online has a new preview of GK3, written by ex-Sierra Weblady Cindy Vanous. There are some terrific new screenshots, taken directly from the beta version.