Games die and publishers move on, but STAR WARS Battlefront II released in 2017 from DICE and EA now has an open source ...

Preservation has become a pressing topic for games in this era of digital-only releases and games-as-a-service. So it's wonderful to have a big win in archiving a trio of seminal text games for the ...

Game developers should take a look at the brand new Godot Engine 4.6 release, bringing a big refresh to the popular ...

Julián F.L. is a video game & anime expert, historian & journalist with a lot of passion for these subjects and over 10 years of experience in writing about them. He has enjoyed video games, anime, ...

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 ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

The original Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III games are now available under the MIT license. Microsoft, Xbox, and Activision have teamed up to preserve the clever Z-Machine engine that powered the Zork ...

Open-world games are inescapable, and January 2026 will get things going quickly in the new year. While the biggest projects are scheduled for February and March, January's upcoming open-world game ...