Games Features
Why Roberta Williams Came Out of Retirement to Remake a Beloved Text Adventure
'Colossal Cave Adventure' summoned the Sierra adventure game legend to her calling. Forty years later, she's heeding its call again.
Duncan Fyfe
11.10.22
Games Feature
An Oral History of Tim Curry’s Escape to the One Place Uncorrupted by Capitalism
How an unforgettable performance in Red Alert 3 became legend.
Duncan Fyfe
8.18.22
Games Features
How Kindness Saved the Cult Hit 'Anachronox' from the Wreck of Ion Storm
How Tom Hall and a team of inspired believers created an RPG masterpiece during one of the games industry's—and Hall's—most disastrous projects.
Duncan Fyfe
11.29.21
Games Features
Gabriel Knight Creator Jane Jensen's Successful Second Act: Erotic Novelist
Jane Jensen was one of games' great storytellers. When the industry wouldn't let her tell those stories, she took her talents to erotica.
Duncan Fyfe
3.31.21
Games Features
How Sierra Was Captured, Then Killed, by a Massive Accounting Fraud
Sierra was one of the biggest game publishers of the 90s. Then they got an offer that was way too good to be true, but too good to decline.
Duncan Fyfe
10.29.20
Games Features
Was Leisure Suit Larry Really an Accomplice in Early Banking Cyberattacks?
In the late 80s, Sierra's hokey horndog was connected to a major computer virus, and rumor had it that the publisher may have created it to punish pirates.
Duncan Fyfe
4.8.20
Games Features
The Mysterious Origins of Mastermind, the Codebreaking Board Game
It was an international sensation. It made an appearance in Fallout. It helped create the field of cybersecurity. But where did it come from?
Duncan Fyfe
3.9.20
Police Quest
How Sierra and a Disgraced Cop Made the Most Reactionary Game of the 90s
In the wake of the 1992 Los Angeles riots that ruined his reputation, Daryl Gates found himself in a point-and-click professional afterlife.
Duncan Fyfe
1.18.18
Politics
The Unsettling Political Power Fantasy of 'Dishonored 2'
Protagonists Emily and Corvo are less interested in the hard work of governance than the flashy ascent to power. Sound familiar?
Duncan Fyfe
12.17.16