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Nancy Drew Cookie Contest!

CONTEST IS CLOSED. The Her Interactive Team has voted! Congrats to our three winners! Thanks for participating in the 2013 Nancy Drew Cookie Contest!  Please note: Due to the overwhelming number of entries, we will not be able to publish the Nancy Drew Cookie Cookbook until December 27th.  Sorry for any inconvenience that this may […]

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Christmas Sale!

For those of you who like to collect the boxes to add to your shelf, the Nancy Drew games (all physical) are now on sale! Check it out below and shop here! Also, we received an order from our merchandise store today. I got really excited and was thrilled to show off the Cathedral Logo […]

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Cookies and Sales

How was everyone’s Thanksgiving weekend? I know I had a super great holiday break! ‘Tis the season for crazy shopping! I hope those of you who ventured out after Thanksgiving to do some big sale shopping didn’t get hurt, and I hope you got enough rest, too. I went out only once to get one […]

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Happy Thanksgiving!

It’s Thanksgiving week! Head’s up: at 1pm today (PST) we will be leaving for this holiday break, and we won’t be back until Monday. If you, too, will be celebrating with friends and family, enjoy your extended weekend! Here at the office, we are having a potluck. Check it out, a cupcake turkey!   Also, […]

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Thanksgiving Sale 2013

This weekend, get all Nancy Drew games (digital only) for 50% off using promo code THANKS13. Shop today!  

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Creating a Character

Hooray! Wehlaunched a new behind the scenes video today on our YouTube Channel! Check it out:e This is definitely one of our longest videos,ibut that’s because there is a lot to show! I’ve been collecting video footage over the past year to show you everything that happens insthis process, so a lot of the content […]

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Cookie Love in SPY

Looks like a few of you solved the puzzle! Congrats! The two clues provided (puzzle = keyword, and “no q”) refers to a Playfair Cipher. Using the letters given, it decodes to these words [Creating a Character on Monday]. I especially like one person’s theory on the message boards to what this means…he/she is spot […]

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Laptop Contest! (And Weekend Puzzle #221)

You guys!! Check it out! Awww yeah! This is one of the coolest prizes we have ever given away: a new Nancy Drew themed laptop that has every desktop Nancy Drew game pre-installed on it! (Except for the original Secrets Can Kill). And yes, this includes Stay Tuned for Danger and the two Dossier games […]

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Kate Drew — Modeled

Another part of what I’m working on this week had me looking through Kate Drew’s 3D model, particularly the sample models that our character designer creates for our animators: Since there really aren’t many descriptions in the Nancy Drew books to go off on, we were able to design Kate how we imagined her to […]

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Nancy & Phone Technology

Back in the very early days (1930s) for Nancy Drew, there were less-advanced sleuthing gadgets for a detective to use. Sure, Nancy drove her own car and had running water and electricity in her home, but calling someone on the phone looked different back then.  Making a phone call took an extra step or two. […]

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