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On its surface, Road 96 appears to be all about a destination. It puts you in the role of a rather anonymous young person (a series of them, actually) moving toward a goal that is nearly mythical in its importance. The entirety of the adventure is about progressing in that one direction, ever closer to […]

We’ve probably all experienced plenty of disturbing things while playing adventures over the years. Whether investigating ritual murder, serial killings, or many other types of horrific events, the taking of virtual life may even have become fairly dull by this point. But as desensitized as we might be to the violence inflicted throughout games, I […]

Sierra On-Line is the company most responsible for the point-and-click graphic adventure genre that we all love. That’s not a controversial statement. It may not be the company that produced your favorite adventure games, but it was a pioneer in so many ways, taking the text adventure format and revolutionizing it by putting a pretty […]

I’ve had the opportunity to play a lot of adventure games featuring serious themes and depictions of crimes. The best of these games generally succeed by accentuating their somber nature with the details necessary to tell a plausibly bleak story. New York developer iNK Stories’ , a very short mystery game designed for VR platforms […]

The subject of hacking has always been fascinating to me—perhaps partly because the skill set usually seems beyond my comprehension, but mostly because I’ve always been jealously fascinated with the so-called “white hat” hackers, those with the incredible knowledge and talent to invade a computer system but who use those skills only for good. Though […]

Presumably anyone reading this has, at some point in their life, taken a ride in a traditional taxicab or a modern rideshare service. Having established that, admit it: at some point during the trip you thought this must be a cool gig. It would be fun to drive a car for a living, meeting all […]

I am old enough to proudly say that I grew up next to a radio. And by radio, I don’t mean some futuristic machine with a touch-screen display allowing me to instantly select one of hundreds of satellite-beamed crystal-clear signals. I mean an honest-to-goodness radio with knobs and switches, where as a nine-year-old I flipped […]

I’m sure you remember when you first saw your favorite movie or first listened to your favorite song, and the joy that experience gave you. I had those emotions as a 1990s teenager when I first played , the 1994 science fiction point-and-click adventure from Revolution Software set in the bleak dystopia of Union City. […]

If it seems like it’s been a long time since you last heard about , it probably has. Himalaya Studios, best known for their fantastic free VGA remakes of the first three games and launched a Kickstarter five years ago and nearly doubled their funding goal for , promised as a modern era adventure-RPG hybrid […]