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 ...

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 ...

Capybara Games has announced Find Your Words, a short adventure game in which explore a colorful summer camp as a child learning to communicate without speech. It will launch for PC via Steam in ...

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 ...

It feels like generative AI is everywhere in game development—a Google survey estimated 87% of game developers are using it ...

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, ...

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, ...

If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. Credit...Illustration by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sam Kriss In the quiet hum of our digital ...

Find Your Words is a short, free adventure from Superbrothers dev Capybara Games, and it's all about communicating without ...

"Your focus is on survival. The world reacts to how you move through it. Walk loudly, ignore your needs, or rush through the ...

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 ...