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

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 ...

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

An HR advisor with a background in recruitment and HRIS functions, with a passion for video games and writing. Oliver grew up playing Call of Duty with his siblings and has garnered 1000s of hours ...

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 ...

Seoul-based developer Vittgen has announced story-driven adventure game All Adrift for PC (Steam). It will launch in 2027.

After the initial demise of Telltale Games in 2017 and the team bouncing around studios and publishers for the past few years, it appears they have finally returned to form with the new release of ...

What does a finger puppet show, a congkak-making workshop and a life-sized chessboard have in common? Well, they’re just a few highlights at the Asian Civilisations Museum’s ACM Adventures: Game On!, ...

Preservation has become a pressing topic for games in this era of digital-only releases and games-as-a-service. So it's wonderful to have a big win in archiving a trio of seminal text games for the ...

Silent protagonists are nothing new in video games, but Stray certainly pushes that concept to an interesting place. Part platformer, part traditional adventure game, this cyberpunk world full of neon ...

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 ...

Dalton Cooper is the Managing Editor of Game Rant. Dalton has been writing about video games professionally since 2011. Having written thousands of game reviews and articles over the course of his ...