Jack Allin
As a games journalist for over twenty years, first as editor in chief of Adventure Gamers and now as co-founder/editor/podcaster at the Adventure Game Hotspot, Jack has written literally thousands of articles that both celebrate the genre's rich history and champion its future by supporting modern developers. He has also edited scripts for dozens of game localizations, and is currently co-writing and designing the upcoming adventure Fogtown.
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Posts by Jack Allin
Plans for The Brilliant Coup well underway
SCUMM-styled point-and-click British crime comedy adventure coming to Steam in 2024... Read more
Pine Hearts to spring up in early 2024
Cozy isometric cartoon adventure coming soon to Windows PC on Steam... Read more
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami to be served up on PC
Cartoony animal deduction adventure from the creator of Kraken Academy coming early next year... Read more
Happy Hotspot Holidays 2023 – A Developer Season’s Greetings Video
'Tis the season for our annual collection of holiday video greetings from all manner of developers, from genre legends to solo indies and everything in between, many of them with top new games released in the last calendar year... Read more
Demo served up by The Crimson Maid
Supernatural murder mystery from the creators of Last Days of Lazarus coming to PC and consoles in 2024... Read more
Lust of God to be fulfilled on PC
Lovecraftian erotic thriller to continue story begun in Lust for Darkness and Lust from Beyond... Read more
Snowman Story gets rolling on Steam
PC port of seasonal pixel art narrative adventure available now for Windows, Mac and Linux... Read more
Soul Tolerance: Prologue materializes on Steam
New sci-fi voxel art mystery series debuts from the creator of ENCODYA and Three Minutes to Eight... Read more
Demo becomes real for Cosmic Void's Tachyon Dreams Anthology
Comedic sci-fi freeware trilogy to re-released commercially with new content by the creator of Twilight Oracle... Read more
Gone But Not Forgotten Games
So many adventures have come and gone, all but lost to time. Adventure Game Hotspot writer Drew Onia makes his first appearance on the show, joining Jack and Joshua as they take a look back at some of those games that deserve better than to be consigned to the scrapheap of history. Bonus top five: Current games that aren't getting enough buzz and risk becoming the forgotten games of tomorrow... Read more
MADievals: The Rise of Rusty Steelknee charges out of early access
Complete version and demo of tongue-in-cheek fantasy adventure available now for Windows PC... Read more
Copies of Detective Hayseed: The Cloning Madness found on Steam
Sequel to 2016 comic adventure Detective Hayseed: Hollywood available now for Windows and Mac... Read more
The Expanse: A Telltale Games Series – Archangel review
If an hour-plus playing politics with The Expanse’s Chrisjen Avasarala sounds like your idea of a good time, “Archangel” is a match made in heaven. For all others, it’s merely an undercooked diversion that adds nothing new to the main storyline... Read more
Silence Channel 2 now transmitting on Steam
Demo also available for first-person 3D supernatural horror adventure based on a true story... Read more
Supermassive's The Casting of Frank Stone set for 2024 release
Upcoming cinematic horror adventure for PC and consoles part of the Dead by Daylight universe... Read more