Microsoft's Open Source Program Office (OSPO), in collaboration with Xbox and Activision, has open-sourced the historical text adventure games Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III under the MIT license. This ...
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 ...
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 you know the name Ron Gilbert, it’s probably for his decades of work on classic point-and-click adventure games like ...
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.
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, ...
Seoul-based developer Vittgen has announced story-driven adventure game All Adrift for PC (Steam). It will launch in 2027.
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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 ...