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About the future chapters and episodes, currently we’re facing some financial problems mainly due to some unpredicted events, caused some delays in the production plans. But rest assured that we’re working on them and you’ll be definitely able to experience later chapters and episodes. And, finally, we now have some free marketplace tokens that we can give away.

We decided to give five of them to you! Want a free game?! Just leave a comment to this post and we will contact you!

Something's going on in the Community Games area of Microsoft Live service. Although it seems not many people have been keeping their eye on it, I've noticed that this little do-it-yourself corner is starting to show promise of reviving genres that players had thought all but dead. CarneyVale Showtime was a kinetically quirky action game the likes of which haven't been seen since the SNES, Weapon of Choice breathed new life into the side-scrolling shooter, and now we have Mithra: The Calling to represent adventure games. It's heartening to know that regardless of what direction the industry takes, people still haven't forgotten its roots... (read more)

We all thank Brad Gallaway for this wonderful review!

Read out interview with Brad Gallaway on GameCritics.com or Brad's blog:

Although the Community Games area on Xbox Live was slow to start, there's no doubt that the content is heating up. More and more titles of notable quality have been surfacing, one of which is the fully 3D Adventure title, Mithra: Episode 1 – The Calling. If you haven't heard of it, don't be surprised… Microsoft's been lacking when it comes to promoting the better selections. However, that's what I'm here for.

Let's talk with Keyvan Vakili, project manager at Afiction:

What can you tell us about yourselves and your team? How many people are involved, and are you in the US or International?

Afiction Games is an international team based in Canada. Currently it's composed of a small core team of less than ten people, and almost the same number of part-time members. It was initially Mahdi (our lead programmer) and I when we started developing the main idea in summer of 2007. After settling on the core idea, we managed to raise the initial funding required to launch the project. Afterwards, Mohammad, our 3D art director, joined us. With his help, finally we gathered the core people needed to develop Mithra...

Read the rest on GameCritics.com!

Here is another video, taking a look at Mithra:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3QT3Iks_3U&feature=Responses&parent_video=Sq-WgFjM4l0&index=0&playnext=1&playnext_from=RL

Thanks CowlauncherX for the review! Have fun...