[Cold Comfort]

February, 2007

Episodic games let you play and then get on with your lifeMost video games cost $50 to $60 up front and require 20 to 60 hours to fin­ish. Hence the three a.m. gaming ses­sions when you have to work the next day. But thanks to downloadable epi­sodic titles that cost as little as $9 and can be completed in four to six hours,we jum may get our lives back.SAM & MAX: SEASON 1 (PC, telltale games.com) The 1993 classic has been resur-rected as a three-dimensional puzzle-solving serial that pits an ani...