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 ...

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 ...

Python has become one of the most popular programming languages out there, particularly for beginners and those new to the hacker/maker world. Unfortunately, while it’s easy to get something up and ...

Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert isn't interested in making another 2D adventure game, despite having brought the series ...

If you know the name Ron Gilbert, it’s probably for his decades of work on classic point-and-click adventure games like ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Studios are treating video game movies with far more care now, and the difference shows. Instead of quick cash-ins, the new wave of adaptations comes with bigger worlds, better writing, and filmmakers ...