Games mentioned in 2025 included 9 different Halo games, 12 different Zelda games, 13 different Final Fantasy games, and 15 ...

"You enter a dark room. A Goblin pulls a rusty knife from its belt and prepares to attack!" was a typical moment in such ...

Added: Zork I (1983) (r75, Serial 830929, Int. 3A) (160K) (Booter) [cp cr].zip Renamed: Zork I (1983) (r75, Serial 830929) (160K) (Booter) [cp cr].zip to Zork I (1983 ...

This is going to be the final update to the Retro Classics library this year, but there should be more in 2026, as Microsoft previously promised more than 100 games. All of that said, and as always, ...

Last week, Microsoft made the classic games Zork, Zork II, and Zork III available as open source under the MIT license. “Our goal is simple: to place historically important code in the hands of ...

Microsoft has officially opened the source code of the original Zork trilogy-Zork I, Zork II and Zork III-making the foundational text-adventure games freely available under the MIT licence. The ...

The proliferation of digital game libraries and cloud streaming services has raised concerns about game preservation. Some publishers, such as EA, have stepped up in a big way by open sourcing older ...

Microsoft developer boss Scott Hanselman saved the company's Ignite shindig this week by unveiling the source code for Zork I-III, all available under the MIT license. "Our goal is simple: to place ...

Microsoft, Team Xbox, and Activision have done an interesting service to game preservation this week. The trio have compiled and made open source the entirety of the classic Zork text-based adventure ...

The first Zork title influenced the development of parser-based stories and puzzle-driven play. The game ran on the Z-Machine virtual machine, which helped the trilogy appear on multiple personal ...