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Posted 21 Jul 2010

Guest Review: DeathSpank

Here at Cultural Zest we currently have a very small employment. And two of us are working for free! And Jan Jacob Mekes still needs to put fresh newspaper in our cages! Nevertheless, it’s always a great help when someone else reviews something for us! One member from the Telltale Games Forums, tabstis, has kindly sent us a review for…
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Posted 20 Jul 2010

Review: Beyond the Alley of the Dolls

The third season of Telltale’s successful Sam & Max series is slowly coming to a close. What did we here at Cultural Zest think of it? Well, read on to find out, starting with my own opinion! Me being Jan Jacob Mekes, that is. Just so you know. In my review for the previous Sam & Max episode, I wrote…
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Posted 20 Jul 2010

Behind the Legends of Sam & Max...

If you’ve been checking, you would have noticed my last 2 articles on art centered around the artists on the Telltale Games Forums, and this one is no different! Stell has contributed her… brain thoughts about art for me to share with you in this exclusive interview! So hold on, because her art certainly is, er… different? CZ: What tools…
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Posted 12 Jul 2010

The birth of a web site

Our own Cultural Zest has not long ago left its zestation… pardon… gestation period behind it, having only seen the light of day in May (hey, that rhymes). I just realized we didn’t even send out birth cards to celebrate the event, much less detail the process of its birth. And I’m not going to either, because that would be…
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Posted 11 Jul 2010

Monkey Island 2 Special Edition Review

First of all, I’ve already made a whole video review that you can see below, so I’m going to keep this short, but it’ll be a bit different to my review in the video. Now I was first introduced to the Monkey Island series when I was about 8 years old with The Curse of Monkey Island, the 3rd in…
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Posted 06 Jul 2010

The art of South Africa

The eye of the world is currently on South Africa because of the World Cup, but the country has of course many other things to offer besides football. One of those things is beautiful art, as you can see on this site. I’ve asked some talented South African artists a few questions about their country and their art, so you…
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lightrises
Posted 04 Jul 2010

Behind the Legends of Sam & Max...

A few weeks ago, I presented to the readers of Cultural Zest an interview with one amazing Sam & Max Fanartist, Ginny N. Today, it is my pleasure to bring to you another interview with an equally talented artist, known only to us as light_rises… CZ: What tools do you use to create your masterpieces? LR: I’m going to get…
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