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#hollywoodmonsters No, that's not hype. Released last year on PC under the title The Next Big Thing, Hollywood Monsters is a hilarious adventure game from the creators of Runaway, and its coming to your iDevices December 6. More »

Hollywood Monsters, known in the US as the 2011 PC game The Next Big Thing, is coming to iOS devices on December 6. Developer Pendulo Studios recently launched Yesterday on the App Store and must have liked how that whole deal went down.

Hollywood Monsters chronicles a 1940s Hollywood your grandparents never knew, where all the monsters in horror movies are real and have acting careers spanning kids' movies to romantic comedies. Liz Allaire and Dan Murray get tangled up with these beasts and enter a mysterious adventure to rival any dinner theater. Break out the iPad at a holiday meal and have grandma play a few levels - maybe she'll remember the good ol' days just the same.

Steam's Daily Deal has Pendulo's The Next Big Thing for 75 percent off on PC and Mac, at just $7.50. Pendulo is a veteran of the point-and-click adventure genre, known for its dark humor and cartoonish aesthetics, recently evident in Yesterday.

Today, you can play The Next Big Thing for cheap and - oh, who are we kidding? This is a game you can play while you wait for Borderlands 2 to go live on Steam. That's all you'll be doing tonight anyway, and you might as well spend your wait time having fun.

Pendulo Studios, developer of The Next Big Thing, has announced a new comic-book-style adventure game titled Yesterday. Apparently the art is where the similarities to Pendulo's previous titles end: "Pendulo has now given up comedy for once and is offering an original and dark thriller," the game's announcement reads. "This is the starting point of the brand new adventure from Pendulo Studios."

Yesterday begins in New York City, where "beggars are disappearing one after another, only to be found burnt alive. Meanwhile, a Y-shaped scar forms in the palm of the hands of seemingly unrelated people." A young heir, Henry White, and his pal Cooper investigate these incidences, while a third man, John Yesterday, is pulled into the story after his memory is erased. We're betting that last guy is pretty important -- call it a hunch. All three characters will be playable, Pendulo promises. Yesterday is slated for release in Q2 2012.

The Next BIG Thing comes to Mac!

PARIS, France - The Next Big Thing, the latest adventure game from Pendulo Studios, will be released worldwide tomorrow, April 21st, on major digital distribution platforms and in European retail stores. To celebrate the launch, we invite you to discover four new images of this grand adventure that ...

The Next Big Thing, a rather colourful adventure game from Focus Home Interactive, has a playable demo out now you can work your way through. It's on PC and Mac, and you can grab it here. More »

Since our first look at the kitschy, cartoony style of The Next Big Thing, we (like many of you, we'd bet) have been harboring a secret crush on Pendulo's upcoming adventure. Well, it's not really a secret, we'd tell you about it if you asked. We just don't get a lot of opportunities to bring it up.

Is this love real? Are we gonna get our hearts broken? We'll know soon enough thanks to a just-released demo available from our friends at Big Download. Just think: True love may be just 792 MB away.

Today, just one week before the hotly-awaited launch of The Next Big Thing, Pendulo Studios is giving adventure gaming fans a chance to personally check out the game with a new playable PC demo! The demo puts you in the shoes of young Liz Allaire, one of the game's two playable characters, in the...

I have no idea whether The Next Big Thing will be the next big thing for adventure games, because I haven’t had time to play the demo of the game. You might have time, eh? You might even have the inclination. If that’s the case you’ll be pleased to hear that Pendulo Studios’ new game features lots of Hollywood-based hilarity, and the demo kicks that off as “Liz stubmles (sic) upon some suspicious activity. She witnesses the famous Hollywood monster actor Big Albert breaking into the office of his boss, Fitz Randolph, who also happens to be the biggest horror movie producer in the biz.” Gosh!

Yeah.

On April 25, The Next Big Thing will launch, continuing Pendulo Studios' tradition of humorous adventure games -- at least, this launch trailer suggests as much. And here we thought the next big thing was guilty cat!

Neurosis is abound in this trailer for the Next Big mystery game coming to PC!

Kind of a big deal.

Well, that is until the adventure game The Next Big Thing launches, which will be the next big thing. Developer Pendulo Studios is just being up front, right? In fact, we're thinking about doing the same, renaming Joystiq to Thing Our Mom Reads and Sometimes Tells Her Pinnacle Friends About.

Collect clues and solve mysteries in this adventure game from Pendulo Studios!

It's going to be huge.

PC gaming's latest adventure title.