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 ...

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 ...

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.

Seoul-based developer Vittgen has announced story-driven adventure game All Adrift for PC (Steam). It will launch in 2027.

After the initial demise of Telltale Games in 2017 and the team bouncing around studios and publishers for the past few years, it appears they have finally returned to form with the new release of ...

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 ...