Episode one of the long-awaited Adventure Games, City of the Daleks, is now available to download for PC on the official website – 3 days before its scheduled release!

It was updated on the site yesterday evening, however we just wanted to make sure that it wasn’t a temporary error on the BBC’s behalf before we reported the news ourselves. The early release has, naturally, spread through fandom like wildfire, and the link is very much still active – so it’s too late to turn back now!

You can download the brand new game in all its glory by clicking this link, where you can also watch an exciting video introduction from Karen Gillan. The Mac version of the game will be released on June 15th (or maybe a few days earlier if lightning strikes twice!), and the official site promises that non-UK fans will be able to play when a commercial version of the game is released internationally next month.

Thanks to everybody who wrote in with the news. We weren’t ignoring you - we just wanted to verify what was going on before we posted!

CALLING ALL WHOVIANS! 
What did you think of City of the Daleks? Let us know by writing your own reviews, either in the comments below or via email, and later this month we’ll compile a selection of the best ones for our forthcoming Adventure Games guide! What did you love? What did you hate? Was it too easy? Too hard? Too slow? Let us know!

With just a few short days left to go until City of the Daleks is released, BBC Radio 4’s FrontRow have previewed the first Adventure Games instalment.

John Wilson tries his hand at the long-awaited interactive episode, and the video of his attempt includes some new gameplay footage.

Are you looking forward to City of the Daleks? It’s available to download for free from this Saturday. Not long now!

We’re now just one week away from the long-awaited release of the first instalment of the brand new Adventure Games, City of the Daleks, and as such, the official site has today posted an update from one of its executive producers, Charles Cecil.

In the blog, he gives us the last minute lowdown, describing the visual aspects of the game as “stunning”, and he also offers some teasers for the three remaining episodes. Not long now!

We’ve discovered what is thought to be the title of the second Adventure Game!

The recently unveiled mini-site on the official Doctor Who website includes an image of a Cyberman for the second interactive episode. Although the header simply says ’Coming Soon’, the eagle-eyed among us will notice that the image itself is called ‘winter-of-terror304.jpg’, so we can assume that the game is called just that – The Winter of Terror!

Of course, nothing is set in stone until we get confirmation from the BBC, but it just goes to show that you never know what you’re going to find hidden beneath the wonders of cyberspace. The first game, City of the Daleks, is released Saturday 5th June.

The release of the first instalment of the long-awaited Adventure Games, City of the Daleks, is now just over a week away, and as such the official Doctor Who website has tonight launched a mini-section devoted to the interactive episodes!

You can catch up with all the previews and interviews released so far, and keep an eye on it for the latest information as we get closer to June 5th! Each game will be 300MB to download.

In City of the Daleks, we’ll be able to play as the Doctor from the comfort of our own home, as he and Amy arrive in London to find the capital city in ruins. The dreaded Daleks have seized control of time, and the only chance of saving Earth lies in a desperate quest to Skaro, before the events catch up with Amy. It will be released to download on 5th June for Windows PC, and 15th June for Mac.

Keep on top of all the Adventure Games news reported on WhovianNet.co.uk here.

The official Doctor Who website has today released an Adventure Games update, including quotes from one of the executive producers, Charles Cecil, who reveals how the interactive episodes came about.

“The first of the Adventure Games launches three weeks tomorrow!” he said. “It seems unbelievable that City of the Daleks will soon be out there for millions of people to download and enjoy – pitting their wits against the Doctor’s oldest enemies!”

He explains: “It was over a year ago that I started talking to the BBC about the possibility of translating Doctor Who into a series of video game episodes and the intervening 12 months have been incredibly busy but creative and rewarding.”

City of the Daleks will be released on the official website on Saturday 5th June.

The official website has today posted a video in which Phil Ford, the writer of the first Adventure Game, City of the Daleks, answers various questions submitted by fans. He was speaking at the press launch for the interactive episodes, which took place in Sheffield on April 21st.

Elsewhere on the BBC’s Doctor Who site, you can read about this week’s Confidential, Death in Venice, and catch up with BBC Radio Wales’ Bank Holiday Doctor Who celebration.

LastBroadcast have released an interview with Phil Ford - co-writer of the forthcoming Adventure Games – who exclusively discusses what we can expect from the first instalment, City of the Daleks!

“It looks fabulous and I think people are going to be blown away by it,” he reveals. “It opens in a London of 1963 that’s in ruins, and then takes us to Skaro, the planet of the Daleks. We’ve been there before, of course, but never seen it in the way that we do now.”

He added: ”And we’ve never seen Kaalann before, the brutal poisonous heart of the Dalek empire. But that’s where the Doctor and Amy have to go in order to save time, save the human race – and save Amy.”

He goes on to praise the current series, and new Doctor, Matt Smith. “He is a brilliant Doctor,” he said. “He has already made it totally his own. I love him and I love what Steven has done with the show – and yes, that is me creeping shamelessly for a chance to write on Series 6.”

City of the Daleks will be released on 5th June, and you can keep on top of all the latest footage and developments here. Thanks to Will for the interview details!

The official Doctor Who website has posted coverage of the Doctor Who Adventure Game launch which took place in Sheffield on April 21st!

The video features some great new footage from the first instalment, City of the Daleks, as well as reactions from local school children who tested out the game at the event.

City of the Daleks will be released for download on the official website from 5th June.

The BBC has today released the title and plot details for the first instalment of Doctor Who: The Adventure Games!

City of the Daleks follows the Doctor and Amy Pond as the TARDIS materializes in 1963, where they find London in ruins. The Daleks have seized control of time and the only chance of saving Earth lies in a desperate quest to Skaro, the Daleks’ home planet, before time catches up with Amy, the last survivor of the human race. It will feature the Doctor’s first ever visit to the Dalek capital city, Kaalann.

Its co-writer, Phil Ford, said: “This is quite a series opener. We destroy London even before the credits role – so you can only begin to imagine where we travel to from there. City of the Daleks is as big-budget as you can imagine: from London we head to Kaalann, the capital city of the Daleks, one constructed from pure anger and hate. And these new Daleks don’t like to be messed with, so players are about to enjoy a new interactive episode which is as heart-pulsing as anything you’ve seen before.”

City of the Daleks will be available to download from the official website from 5th June.