Everything you hated about text adventure games is now being sold as a productivity tool Opinion When Microsoft recently ...

This was the year that A.I.-generated content passed a kind of audiovisual Turing test, sometimes fooling us against our ...

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The proliferation of digital game libraries and cloud streaming services has raised concerns about game preservation. Some publishers, such as EA, have stepped up in a big way by open sourcing older ...

Beware of Underground Trolls: Originally released for PDP 10 mainframe computers in 1977, Zork became a cultural and commercial phenomenon at the dawn of the home computing revolution. Now, Redmond is ...

Yesterday Microsoft announced it’s making the classic Zork games open-source, and apparently some folks have gotten a little excited about it. no need to fork zork when you can uncork zork straight ...

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 ...

The original Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III games are now available under the MIT license. Microsoft, Xbox, and Activision have teamed up to preserve the clever Z-Machine engine that powered the Zork ...

And some may be surprised that text adventures are not dead, but continue to thrive! Dozens are written every year, and some of the best can be found at the IF Competition every year, at ifcomp.org!

There was a copy of the predecessor "Dungeon" on a Caltech PDP-11 that someone had modified to take place in the arroyo behind JPL. My father would bring home an accoustic-coupled terminal, and I'd go ...

The cooking show would aim to capture the chaos of the video game with high-stakes kitchen challenges. My wife and I had a pretty healthy relationship for years up until the point that we played ...

EXCLUSIVE: The popular video game Overcooked is eying a move to television as a competition reality series. A24 has acquired the rights to the cooking simulation game and has teamed up with Netflix to ...