The developer of Lethal Company has shared his horror origins and some of the inspirations behind his latest game.

Before computer games had all these fancy graphics, text based games were a very popular genre. Rather than move a character on the screen, you’d type out commands for your player in sentence form ...

As an art form, video games are often valued somewhere between college admissions essays and Stalin. Dismissed as either insipid or evil, they have long languished out of the critical spotlight. But ...

The menu screen in Call of Duty: Black Ops is not like other menu screens. That's because it lets you play a classic adventure game. Players like YouTube user BoredMunkey have already discovered a ...

GOG brings Zork and Police Quest to their service. Good Old Games, the DRM free service bringing the old and classic PC games to modern OS systems have brought their latest gems to their catalog. They ...

You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here. In 1980, these legendary words ushered in a new era of gaming, with the release of ...

Forty years ago, one of the most influential games of all time was released. Zork was a true game changer, selling over 300,000 copies of personal computers in 1980. Distributed in plastic baggies ...

Zork, the famous Infocom text-based adventure game, is actually quite the technical achievement in software engineering. It’s an amazingly large world to explore, albeit in text form only, running on ...

In the days before graphics, computer games had to entice players with nothing more than a well-turned phrase. Whether you prefer to call them "text adventures" or "interactive fiction," games played ...

October 29, 2005 Wine has been one of man’s greatest pleasures over the last 10,000 years, having played a prominent role in the Phoenicean, Greek, Egyptian and Roman civilisations with the latter ...

If playing action games has restricted your vocabulary to the "dude bro" sections of the dictionary, it may be time to go old school. Good Old Games have expanded their catalogue with two anthologies ...