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The September 2023 issue of Juiced.GS has shipped, with a review of Digital Eclipse's Karateka documentary, KansasFest 2023 coverage & more!

Type-in books once promised full computer games encoded in the pages of a printed paperback. But the delicate balancing act of a game easy enough to type in but complex enough to be interesting was hard to get right...

Using AI to track down social media abusers; Son turns down lucrative Saudi offer to stay at Spurs

Zork and MUD? Sure. But also Universal Paperclips, AI Dungeon, and Lifeline.

Twenty-five years before "Adventure," the godfather of interactive text was experimenting with computer text that could tease, advise, and be playful.

Dan’s MEGA65 Digest for October 2022

For Zork dorks - If Zork means more to you than Fortnite ever will, if you know exactly which items to take with you in Hi...

The quest for the earliest transcript of a computer game uncovers a surprisingly complex computer strategy game from the 1950s.

50 Years of Text Games Original Version: December 1978 Online Until: 1987 (original Essex MUD); 1999 (British Legends) Language: MACRO-10 (version 1 and 2); BCPL/MUDDL (version 3) Platform: PDP-10 PATHOS This persona already exists - whats the password? * Password Yes! Your last game was today at 6:24:32. Hello again, Pathos the champion! Narrow road between lands. You are stood on a narrow road between The Land and whence you came. To the north and south are the small foothills of a pair of m...