The Adventure Company announced today that it will be releasing Aura: Fate of the Ages, a new puzzle game due out this June in both North America and Europe. TAC describes the game as follows:

Aura’s powerful story is based on an ancient legend that decrees that four sacred rings will bring great strength, power and immortality to he/she who collects them.

Players must embark on a journey across four magical worlds as they search for the elusive rings. As they find each ring, another world opens up en route to completing this mystical quest.

Aura is a challenging first person puzzle exploration game that uses an easy to navigate mouse driven, point and click interface. The game features vast panoramic landscapes and some of the best pre-rendered graphics adventure has ever seen (and we mean it!!). [Ed: That's TAC's description, not ours, although initial screenshots are promising.] Players will need to solve a variety of ingenious fully-animated puzzles using logic, reasoning and common sense.

-- Jason Strautman