Microsoft acquired the licence to Zork when it purchased Activision, which in turn nabbed the IP when it bought Infocom back ...

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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 ...

Kristy Ambrose has been writing professionally since 2010. She dabbles in various genres, but her favorites are fantasy and science fiction. She creates everything from fanfiction to serialized novels ...

Enterprising gamers are formatting vintage text-based adventure games such as Zork I, II and III for the Kindle and other dedicated e-readers. "Many people cut their teeth on the imagination-fueled ...

Google's string of Easter eggs hidden within Search have proved its developers love gaming. And its latest pays tribute to a classic type of game played only with text. Hidden inside Google's search ...

We've seen people turn neural networks to almost everything from drafting pickup lines to a new Harry Potter chapter, but it turns out classic text adventure games may be one of the best fits for AI ...