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 ...

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 ...

Computer games have been around about as long as computers have. And though it may be hard to believe, Zork, a text-based adventure game, was the Fortnite of its time. But Zork is more than that. For ...

Zork is not the kind of game most people are playing in 2022. It’s entirely text-based, for one thing; our increasingly limited attention spans simply cannot handle the lack of images. When it first ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today marks the beginning of your internship at the Cantaloupe Chronicle! Step into the shoes of a young reporter in a classic Point & Click Adventure as you uncover the mysteries of the small town.

One second you’re on the beach reading your Kindle. The next you’re standing in an open field west of a white house. That’s because you’re playing the text adventure classic Zork (or one of its ...

If you've been following along with the site, you may remember a story we ran on a brand new Zork game, and the press release that told us that it was to be a casual MMO. In fact, we believe the exact ...

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 ...