CSSTORY is a text adventure game about squeezing a single game of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in before your real-life friends arrive in expectation of real conversation and real hosting skills.

It’s easy to dismiss text adventures as the relics of a bygone age. They served a purpose when art and animation were too memory-intensive for the computers of the day. They were popular with a ...

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 ...

Text adventure games may seem like ancient history but they have aspects in common with today's casual and social games. Gordon Haff is Red Hat's cloud evangelist although the opinions expressed here ...

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 ...

I just got hopelessly lost in a bizarre new text adventure game, but for once it wasn’t entirely my fault. That’s because the game, appropriately named GPT Adventure, is generated as I play by a ...

A secret Easter egg game lets you play as the big blue "G" in the Google logo, but watch out for the alligator. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET.

This week a new Google Search easter egg was discovered in the wild, complete with a whole bunch of adventurous paths one might take. To play Google's most recently-discovered in-product game, one ...

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 ...

Wikipedia as a classic text adventure: this “game” now exists, and it’s thanks to a London developer who figured out a clever way to interpret the gushing fountain of data that is Wikipedia’s API. The ...

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