I had an idea of what it would be about at the end of the third game. With renewed interest in point-and-click adventures and Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision (we even have a Monkey Island reboot happening), inquiring minds need to know: When are we getting a new Gabriel Knight adventure? Jensen hasn’t been active in games for a while-her last big project was a Kickstarter for her Pinkerton Road Studio with her husband, Sierra composer Robert Holmes, and the 20th anniversary edition of Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father. The second game, 1995’s The Beast Within, was arguably the finest piece of full-motion video (FMV) storytelling at the time, delving into deep character-driven storytelling, an incredible tapestry of historical detail, and, quite notably at the time, smoldering queer subtext that has since found new life on the fanfiction hub AO3. Eli Easton is, in fact, a pen name for one of gaming’s greatest icons-Jane Jensen, the veteran Sierra Online writer who codesigned King’s Quest VI and created the Gabriel Knight paranormal adventure series.

This isn’t Easton’s first foray into writing. Since then, she’s written over 30 books that cover everything from burgeoning Amish boy-love to a hot firefighter family (they’re nicknamed “the Hot Cannolis,” of course), and perhaps most tellingly, a series about paranormal dog-shifting guys whose human personalities reflect their canine forms.

It’s part of a long-running tradition-the first was Blame It on the Mistletoe back in 2013, when Easton kicked off her gay-romance writing career. In early July, author Eli Easton is already starting work on her annual Christmas novel.

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