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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Bergen have used AI and free digital tools to create a ...

Last week, Microsoft made the classic games Zork, Zork II, and Zork III available as open source under the MIT license. “Our goal is simple: to place historically important code in the hands of ...

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, ...

It feels like generative AI is everywhere in game development—a Google survey estimated 87% of game developers are using it ...

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 ...

If economic and technological transformations have changed our relationship with literature before, they could do so again.

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, ...

If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. Credit...Illustration by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sam Kriss In the quiet hum of our digital ...

Quantity over quality seems to be Dungeons & Dragons' new adventure design strategy, and one of its recent books is seriously disappointing.

Find Your Words is a short, free adventure from Superbrothers dev Capybara Games, and it's all about communicating without ...