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Press release edited by Applelinks senior editor Kirk Hiner

Got Game Entertainment LLC today announced a North American publishing deal for Scratches: Director's Cut, an even more terrifying take on the successful atmospheric mystery adventure game for the PC, brimming with eerie twists and terrifying surprises. Set in and around a solitary Victorian mansion concealing a terrible secret, a long since forgotten story from the past emerges to haunt the present.

In Scratches: Director's Cut, a careful combination of inventory-based and deductive-style puzzles—integrated with a riveting storyline, non-linear gameplay, intricately detailed graphics, and an entrancing soundtrack—immerse you in an even more haunting gothic atmosphere. As a famed horror writer isolated by a washed out road at the dark and mysterious Blackwood Manor, you search for clues to a long-held mystery. Exploring every dark corner of the mansion and its untended grounds via point-and-click interface, you examine, probe, and hunt your way through musty rooms, an overrun greenhouse, a sinister chapel, and a forbidding crypt. As your investigation deepens, you slowly become aware of one terrifying fact: you are not alone.

In addition to a breathtaking conclusion to the story in a new chapter that will stay in your nightmares for months to come, Scratches: Director's Cut also features new, revealing thoughts from the main character in "Michael's Diary," and an alternate control method with fixed mouse, FPS-like movement.

With worldwide sales of the independently developed Scratches at over 150,000 units, legions of fans, plus brave newcomers, will experience an exciting new chapter, a much rumored alternate ending, over two additional hours of gameplay, new clues, higher supported resolutions, enhanced graphics, plus much more. Scratches: Director's Cut is scheduled for a one-year anniversary release in April 2007 and will retail for $19.99 (USD). This game has been rated T by the ESRB for Alcohol and Tobacco Reference/Blood/Mild Language/Mild Violence. A Mac version of the game is scheduled for release in May.

For more information on Scratches: Director's Cut, visit www.ScratchesMystery.com.