It seems like "Arcanum" is only a clue and not the answer... The full title was "Arcanum: of Steamwork and Magick Obscura"...
Then again - I REALLY hope the "Steam" part is irrelevant.

Maybe I'm blind, but I haven't seen any talk about the Facebook hint: "Where history overlaps the present time" (If I recall correctly ;-) )

Red Alert (EA) or Day of the Tentacle (Lucasarts)

That'd be the town of Arcanum, Ohio, and it's still thriving now...(Arcanum is a word used to describe history, old things, etc)

Decided to quit collage i see.:P

Call me Stupid McStupid last years winner of the McStupid competition but I am not convinced.

Ahh, I see :-)

I'm surprised no one mentioned Legacy of Kain series... it fits some clues nicely.
On the other hand, maybe it's late hour talking ;)
Have fun everyone, tomorrow I'll probably have another 10 pages of posts to read :)

This is a highly entertaining thread at least. :-)

Why - no. I still make these sometimes ;P.

Geez, misskey'd "a" for "e", You know what i've meant, you just don't want to admit that Your tomorrow's exam won't be pleasant.;) [and no, that "e" and "a" wasn't a clue. ;)]

Could be a reference to "steam punk" which is one of the genre categories that Arcanum is filed under.

arcanum whoohoo! I've been wanting to buy that for awhile now

Ok, so Arcanum is a definitive yes. I remember playing the demo and liking it, up to the part i hired this big fellow to follow me around, then i accidentally killed someone and the big fellow didn't like it and pounded on me, so I guess that's the karmic part of that. I haven't played the game though, and I guess it fits the history overlapping itself bit, but was the "two characters" clue meaning Activision Blizzard or is there something in Arcanum that resembles that?
I'm asking because I was wondering if it'd be two games and a new publisher being announced instead of just one game (we didn't get a game announcement today, might as well get two games on thursday). If any of the clues don't fit Arcanum and they're still giving them away after the game has been guessed, there's a chance we're getting a game duo. If nothing in Arcanum fits the messenger clue, then it has to be a clue for the other game.