Got Game Entertainment announced the North American release date for their adventure game Scratches will be March 1. Their press release and description of the game follows:

The protective glow of night lights will soon flicker across North America as Got Game Entertainment LLC today announced that Scratches has gone gold. Brimming with horror and suspense, this atmospheric point and click adventure game for the PC finds you cast as famed horror writer Michael Arthate just arriving at Blackwood Manor, your newly acquired Victorian home lost in the outskirts of a small English market town. Soon after your arrival, a terrible secret from the manor's past emerges to haunt the present. Now isolated by a washed out road, you are stranded with a telephone as your only means of contact with the outside world. As the odd noises echoing throughout the walls of this mysterious mansion grow ever louder, you must set about solving your home's long-held mystery. Examining, probing, and hunting your way through musty rooms, an overrun greenhouse, a sinister chapel, and a forbidding crypt, your investigation deepens, and you slowly become aware of one terrifying fact: you are not alone.

Featuring a careful combination of inventory-based and deductive-style puzzles, integrated with a riveting storyline, non-linear gameplay, intricately detailed graphics, voice acting by Jonathan Boakes (Creator of "Dark Fall", "Dark Fall II") and John Bell (Sherlock Holmes in "The Mystery of the Mummy") and an entrancing sound track, "Scratches" immerses you in a haunting gothic atmosphere until the final shocking revelation.

"Scratches" is scheduled for release March 1, 2006 and will retail for $19.99 (USD). The game is rated "T" for Teen by the ESRB for Alcohol and Tobacco Reference/Blood/Mild Language/Mild Violence.

-- Frank Nicodem