The trail leads onward! It's time once again to step into Nancy's shoes and follow the clues... We are pleased to announce that ScummVM now supports two more titles from the long-running Nancy Drew adventure game series.

In Nancy Drew: The Secret of Shadow Ranch, the famous teenage detective trades city sleuthing for a vacation out west at a real western-style ranch — but her getaway turns into a mystery when the ghost of the ranch's former owner comes riding in on his ghostly horse. Before long, Nancy finds herself caught in the middle of a dangerous and vengeful plot. Is the phantom rider real, or is someone with very earthly motives behind it all?

In Nancy Drew: Curse of Blackmoor Manor, Nancy is summoned across the Atlantic to a 14th-century castle deep in the spooky British moors, home to the Penvellyn family for centuries. The manor's newest resident, a new bride named Linda Penvellyn, has locked herself away in total fear, refusing to see or speak to anyone. Has the mansion been cursed? Has the spirit of the "old witch" returned? Or is something else entirely going on? It's up to you to find out.

As usual, you will need the original game data files to play these games. The games are available for purchase through HeR Interactive's website or Steam. To play them with ScummVM, you will need a daily development build. If you encounter any issues, please submit a bug report to our issue tracker, following our bug submission guidelines.

Stay curious, and happy sleuthing!

The ScummVM Team is pleased to announce that Dracula: Resurrection and Dracula 2: The Last Sanctuary are ready for public testing!

Follow Jonathan Harker through Transylvania and London as he searches for Mina and attempts to put an end to Count Dracula once and for all. Explore panoramic locations, solve puzzles, gather useful objects, and try to survive the Count’s return.

For this testing period, ScummVM supports the original Windows versions of both games through the new PhoenixVR engine. The English, French, and Italian releases of Dracula: Resurrection are supported, along with the English release of Dracula 2: The Last Sanctuary.

The compatible versions can also be found in the Dracula Trilogy release available from GOG.com. The newer Steam releases use different game data and are not supported.

To participate in the testing, use a recent daily development build, add your game directory to ScummVM, and play through the games. Please report any problems you encounter on our issue tracker, following our bug submission guidelines.

Screenshots and saved games demonstrating an issue are always helpful.

Sharpen your stakes, keep some garlic nearby, and help us send Dracula back to his grave!

From Spain to Egypt, from Italy to Russia - follow the adventures of T.I.A agents Mort and Phil on secret missions around the world!

Less than a year ago we added Mortadelo y Filemón: Aventura de Cine Edición Especial to ScummVM. Now we can announce that the nine other games based on the same engine can be played using the daily build. These games were always developed in sets of three: two single-chapter games and a combined game with an exclusive final chapter.

• Mortadelo y Filemón: Una Aventura de Cine Edición Original (2000)
  • Mortadelo y Filemón: Dos vaqueros chapuceros
  • Mortadelo y Filemón: Terror, Espanto y Pavor
• Mortadelo y Filemón: La Sexta Secta (2001)
  • Mortadelo y Filemón: Operación Moscú
  • Mortadelo y Filemón: El Escarabajo de Cleopatra
• Mortadelo y Filemón: La Banda de Corvino (2003)
  • Mortadelo y Filemón: Balones y Patadones
  • Mortadelo y Filemón: Mamelucos a la Romana

While Operación Moscú got a text translation in the English Steam release, the other games are currently only available in Spanish. Before you start your test run, please read through our testing guidelines and take some screenshots along the way.

Hey, now you can run bigger games on PS3 with our new multi-engine modules version package.

This package reduces ScummVM's memory usage by approximately 90 MB by loading engines as separate modules, leaving more memory available for games.

For more information, see the PS3 platform documentation page.

So far, we are able to keep the release cadence. This quarter, the team is bringing you a set of new and old, all exciting features!

Newly Supported Games:

• Nancy Drew: The Haunted Carousel
• Nancy Drew: Danger on Deception Island
• Noctropolis
• Cartoon Carnival
• Alfred Pelrock: En Busca de un Sueño
• Pilot Brothers: On the Track of Striped Elephant
• Pilot Brothers: The Case of Serial Maniac and 5 more games on the same engine

General enhancements

This was the period of the Google Summer of Code start, so we had an influx of new contributors, who were busy with improving our GUI, adding small and big quality-of-life features, such as improved search, kinetic scrolling, and revamped About dialog.

Engine bugfixes and improvements

Ten supported engines got their tweaks and improvements. Martian Memorandum got script bug fixes, Simon 2 multilanguage support became better, there is a new whole control panel for the GLK engine, allowing to adjust text rendering, Last Express had some corner case bugs squashed, which also happened to the Rex Nebular. Might and Magic 1 had major rewiring of its keymapper, and the enhanced patch support plays better than ever.

There was active work on the Nancy engine, and besides the two newly added games (number 8 and 9), most of the already supported games in the series received their bug fixes (thank you very much for submitting bug reports).

Two new games landed to the SLUDGE engine, and we made them downloadable from our website. And last but not least, the TwinE engine, used for the Little Big Adventure series, got its own measure of bugs fixed.

On the ports side, the Atari port is an ongoing constant series of big and small optimizations, and the PlayStation 3 port is easier on the memory consumption, allowing heavier games to be played.

For more detailed itemization of the improvements, you may refer to the release notes.

And as per our new release procedure, the port builds will be arriving within the next few weeks.