Think you know Outer Wilds? Think again. This award-winning time-looping adventure was once a text adventure and now you can play this Outer Wilds ‘demake’ absolutely free. While developer Mobius ...

Opinion When Microsoft recently decided to open source the seminal text adventure game Zork, I contemplated revisiting it during the festive season... until I realized I've spent much of 2025 ...

A new campaign dubbed 'GhostPoster' is hiding JavaScript code in the image logo of malicious Firefox extensions with more than 50,000 downloads, to monitor browser activity and plant a backdoor. The ...

If you know the name Ron Gilbert, it’s probably for his decades of work on classic point-and-click adventure games like Maniac Mansion, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the Monkey Island series, ...

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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 ...

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 and Activision have officially released the source code for the seminal text adventure trilogy Zork under the MIT License, transforming the games from “gray market” abandonware into legally ...

Microsoft announced today that it has open sourced the code for the first three Zork text adventure games along with their original build notes, comments, and other historically relevant files, and ...

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.

Stephen King is one of the most adapted authors on the planet, with huge chunks of his prodigious output having been churned up, reworked, and then ultimately extruded as movies, TV shows, comic books ...