This month's LCGC Blog from Jonnie Shackman from the America Chemical Society (ACS) reflects on how early experiences with computer programming shaped the author’s understanding of fundamental logic, ...
Microsoft, Team Xbox, and Activision have done an interesting service to game preservation this week. The trio have compiled and made open source the entirety of the classic Zork text-based adventure ...
The original Zork was released back in 1977. This was a good six years before Japan got to play with the NES, and it was the ...
All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Text Adventure Engine Explore the digital realm of DOS in this retro game engine, with heroes like Chicken Boy! Or create your very own text-based DOS ...
Microsoft has made classic text adventures Zork and its sequels open source. The original trilogy (which is actually one huge game that developer Infocom split into three parts) is now available under ...
Mark Sammut grew up on the PlayStation 1 and has been playing games ever since, although he is no longer limited to just Sony consoles. Be it JRPGs, shooters, platformers, or hack and slash games, ...
POFUPOFU STUDIOS has announced cozy hand-painted adventure game Seina: A Tale of Spirits for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, and PC (Steam). It will launch in 2026.
If you know the name Ron Gilbert, it’s probably for his decades of work on classic point-and-click adventure games like Maniac Mansion, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the Monkey Island series, ...
My PCMag career began in 2013 as an intern. Now, I'm a senior writer, using the skills I acquired at Northwestern University to write about dating apps, meal kits, programming software, website ...
Preservation has become a pressing topic for games in this era of digital-only releases and games-as-a-service. So it's wonderful to have a big win in archiving a trio of seminal text games for the ...
There are different periods of my life that I heavily associate with specific games or even types of genres. My early college years were absolutely dominated by detective visual novels, a type of game ...