Forget clicking endless links in your next deep-dive into bizarre topics in a Wikipedia binge, the new old-school way for navigating that peakless mountain of information is a text adventure game. The ...

playing through the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy right now. its a lot of fun. more so, since I have read all of the books. ...and on a slight tanget, I had more fun playing Simutronics' old MUDs ...

The news that old-school adventure game pioneers Roberta and Ken Williams are returning to gaming after 25 years with a virtual reality version of classic game Colossal Cave got me thinking about how ...

This feature is part of AI Week. For more stories, including How AI Could Doom Animation and comments from experts like Tim Sweeney, check out our hub. "You are standing in an open field west of a ...

In honor of the 2012 Interactive Fiction contest we’ll be featuring text-based games in this week’s Free Game Friday roundup. Not all of this week’s games come from the competition, but they all ...

Adventure games can take a myriad of forms these days, including relying solely on text. Creative developers can experiment with all kinds of settings, characters, and storylines, giving players an ...