Available for the very first time, Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller is available as a physical product that includes all four chilling episodes of this multiple award-winning adventure as well as the comic, wallpapers, concept art, soundtrack, and more.

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We want to take a moment to send a huge THANK YOU to our community–you voted Cognition for an amazing SIX Reader’s Choice 2013 Aggie Awards! Including the cialis without rx top honor of Best Adventure Game of 2013! You can read more about the awards over at the Phoenix Online Studios tumblr.

We are incredibly touched by your support and honored by this. 2013 had a lot of strong adventure games, and it’s a thrill to be recognized like this by the adventure gamers out there.

To celebrate, we’re having a sale on the Cognition Season Pass–$5 off for the next week in the Phoenix Online Store and on Steam!

We’ve been seeing some great coverage and a lot of excitement about Phoenix Online Publishing! Thanks everyone for your support so far, we can’t wait to start showing you more about these games as we get closer to release. Stay tuned in the coming weeks for more updates!

For now, here are some of the stories we’ve seen so far covering the announcement:

Polygon: Jane Jensen’s Moebius signed by a publisher looking to put story first

Venture Beat: Phoenix Online Studios creates new indie label with four story-based games under development

PC Gaming Alliance: Phoenix Online Studios Announces Their New Indie-Driven Publishing Label

Today Adventure Gamers opened the Reader’s Choice poll, and once again we were lucky enough to make the list, though this time Cognition is accompanied by Face Noir as both games are eligible for nominations. This time around both titles are included in every category with the exception of Best Comedy and Best Console/Handheld Exclusive.

We are all thrilled and humbled to see to see Cognition and Face Noir being nominated among such greats as the Walking Dead and Brothers: A Tale of Two sons.

It’s an honor to be considered in the same group as these titles, so we’d like thank Adventure Gamers and most cost of daily cialis importantly, thank all of you who have supported us thus far. Finally, good luck to all adventure game designers, you have helped bring about the Adventure Gaming Renaissance.

Cognition: Episodes 2-4 have been nominated for the Best Gameplay Aggie Award at Adventure Gamers.  Back when Erica herself was nothing more than a draft on a sheet of paper, we didn’t know what to expect, it was going to be Phoenix’ first commercial title! Will it liquid propecia resonate with the community? Or will it be nothing more than an obscure adventure game?

Well, thanks to the amazing support the community have given us Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller is still played, mentioned and nominated for awards even a year after its debut launch and it’s all thanks to you!

The Aggie Award winners will be known between February 19-21, keep your fingers crossed everyone!

Published novelist, videogame designer, writer, creator and industry legend. These are just some of the many feats Jane Jensen has accomplished in her life and today we celebrate her birthday!

Born on January 28th, 1963 Jane went on to create the acclaimed Gabriel Knight series, her work and influence in King’s Quest VI led to it becoming one of the highest praised titles in the series.

We are both lucky and humbled to have received Jane’s help when working on Cognition and we’re even luckier to be working on both Moebius and the 20th Anniversary Edition of Gabriel Knight with her. Happy Birthday, Jane, we hope you’re having a good one!

From everyone here at Phoenix Online, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! Everyone reading this has been a huge part of making 2013 a great year for us, and we want to extend a huge thank you to all of you. We’re very excited for 2014 and everything that’s coming up. Enjoy the holidays and we’ll see you in 2014!

We here at Phoenix would like to say ‘thank you everyone for a wonderful 2013’, we appreciate the love and support you have given us throughout the year; it’s been nothing but an honor to be able to be part of your day, of your gaming experience and most of all of your trust and kindness.

We’ve already been celebrating the Holidays by teaming up with bundle-in-a-box for the month of December and by creating a special Holiday sale on our own store.

We hope 2014 will be a wonderful year for all, and as always, looking forward to continue to give the best we can give – Happy Holidays in behalf of all of us from Phoenix!

Announcing our Winter Holiday Sale!

Now through December 25th, you can get 50% off of everything in the store by using the code WINTERPOS13 at checkout! Give the gift of adventure–or excellent adventure-related music!

Happy Holidays!

As of November 19th, the Steam loyalty discount for Cognition, which allows you to purchase the full season at a discount if you own some of the other episodes, will be no longer available. If you own individual episodes of Cognition and are interested in making full use of the Steam loyalty discount you’ll need to purchase the full season there before November 19th! Please contact support@postudios.com with your receipt information from any store to get Steam keys for the episodes you already own.

Of note, we will be continuing to offer discounted Episode Bundles in the Phoenix Store (Episodes 2-4 and Episodes 3-4), and will be happy to provide Steam keys to our customers for both individual episodes and Season Passes.

If you have any questions, please contact us at support@postudios.com, and thank you as always for your support!