Microsoft acquired the licence to Zork when it purchased Activision, which in turn nabbed the IP when it bought Infocom back in the '80s. The move to make Zork open source is a combined project ...

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 ...

First launching in 1977, Zork was a series of text-based adventures games that influenced the creation of MMORPGs.

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

Lunacy Studios has announced The House of Hikmah, a fully voiced narrative-driven 3D adventure game exploring grief, legacy, and the search for purpose after profound loss. It will launch for PC ...

Speaking with Ivy Road founder and writer and director Davey Wreden about Wanderstop's comforting, dark infusion ...

The Chinese video game giant Tencent is now building some of the world’s best 3D AI models. This could have implications far ...

If you've ever wanted to publish a game on an Xbox console, Microsoft is providing a way to make that a lot easier. The company is now publicly sharing the Xbox Game Publishing Guide for all ...

Fix up an old house, make the yard nice, grow your own crops, and become self-sufficient. View the cherry blossoms in the spring; Attend the festival in the summer; Eat roasted sweet potatoes in the ...

Runway claims its latest text-to-video model generates even more accurate visuals than its last. In a blog post on Monday, ...

Mark Sammut grew up on the PlayStation 1 and has been playing games ever since, although he is no longer limited to just Sony consoles. Be it JRPGs, shooters, platformers, or hack and slash games, ...

Exploration is an integral part of any adventure game. It's one thing to have a compelling story, but another thing entirely to have a world that is actually enjoyable to traverse. Many games manage ...