Infocom Chat brings together classic text adventures and large language models. The site lets you play Infocom's legendary ...

Video games as a medium is a home for all kinds of experiences and challenges, and the past decade has only seen that variety grow. But while we’re excited about games that break new boundaries, we’ll ...

If old sci-fi shows are anything to go by, we're all using our computers wrong. We're still typing with our fingers, like cave people, instead of talking out loud the way the future was supposed to be ...

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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 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 ...

The first Zork title influenced the development of parser-based stories and puzzle-driven play. The game ran on the Z-Machine virtual machine, which helped the trilogy appear on multiple personal ...

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 ...

Recent humans may only be familiar with the (admittedly excellent) Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on Xbox and PC, based on the adventures of the titular Professor of Archaeology, Dr Jones himself.

TL;DR: Welcome To The Dark Place is a free horror game from Zeekerss, the maker of the excellent Lethal Company. It's very different, though, and in fact a text adventure - but don't let that put you ...

Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones, a Democrat, is facing growing pressure to drop out of the election race after texts he once sent suggesting a former Virginia House speaker should ...