My nine-year-old eyes peered at the off-white “stone” cradled in my father’s hand; The Wishbringer stone, capable of granting its owner seven wishes. This physical manifestation of Infocom’s classic ...

The American investment company Blackstone Inc. intends to acquire the Japanese IT company Infocom Corp. worth 275 billion yen ($1.7 billion). This is reported by foreign media. Blackstone plans to ...

Infocom is so far removed from public notice in 2022 that you won't even find archival photos in image libraries from the likes of Getty and Shutterstock. Credit: Bettmann / Contributor via Getty ...

The source code of every Infocom text adventure game has been uploaded to code-sharing repository GitHub, allowing savvy programmers to examine and build upon some of the most beloved works of digital ...

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Infocom Chat brings together classic text adventures and large language models. The site lets you play Infocom's legendary Zork trilogy with an AI assistant that understands the games and so you can ...

A few months back while participating in a basement cleaning session, I stumbled upon a box of jewel cases full of old game CDs -- Command & Conquer, Doom, X-Com: UFO Defense (one of my all-time ...

TOKYO, June 18 (Reuters) - Japanese digital comic distributor Infocom (4348.T), opens new tab will announce its board's decision on a takeover bid from Blackstone (BX.N), opens new tab once all its ...

In my review of Get Lamp, the documentary about text adventures, I mentioned that the original Infocom employees believed the market for these games could exist for hundreds of years. After all, the ...

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