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Jack Allin

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Co-founder, editor-in-chief

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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Talking Tex with Mat van Rhoon

Talking Tex with Mat van Rhoon

Mat van Rhoon drops by to chat about Tex Murphy, remastering The Pandora Directive, and what lies ahead... Read more

Paper Trail on track for 2023 release

Paper Trail on track for 2023 release

Top-down paper folding puzzler coming to PC, consoles and mobile devices via the Netflix app... Read more

Demo emerges from Varney Lake prior to April launch

Demo emerges from Varney Lake prior to April launch

Next two games in the Pixel Pulps anthology unveiled by the creators of Mothmen 1966... Read more

Little Big Adventure classic remasters to be rolled out in 2024

Little Big Adventure classic remasters to be rolled out in 2024

Series reboot pushed back, with remakes to mark 30-year-anniversary of Adeline's original debut... Read more

Prototype demo bubbles up for Psychotic Bathtub

Prototype demo bubbles up for Psychotic Bathtub

Multilinear narrative adventure about dealing with a psychotic disorder coming next spring to PC and mobile devices... Read more

Mari & Bayu: The Road Home skitters onto Switch

Mari & Bayu: The Road Home skitters onto Switch

Port of family friendly co-op or single-player puzzle-platformer follows last year's PC release... Read more

Cions of Vega ports delivered on PlayStation and Xbox

Cions of Vega ports delivered on PlayStation and Xbox

Search for a man's missing daughter from the creator of Drizzlepath branches out from PC... Read more

Project: Nightlight switched on for Steam VR

Project: Nightlight switched on for Steam VR

Atmospheric survival horror adventure available now to download for HTC Vive, Valve Index and Meta Quest 2... Read more

A Game You Can Afford in this Economy ready for purchase

A Game You Can Afford in this Economy ready for purchase

Choice-driven point-and-click adventure about surviving financial hardship available now on Steam... Read more

Creepy Tale 3: Ingrid Penance descends on Steam

Creepy Tale 3: Ingrid Penance descends on Steam

Third installment of hand-drawn dark fantasy series available now for download on Windows PC... Read more

Sneak Peek at Our Top 33 Most Anticipated Adventures

Sneak Peek at Our Top 33 Most Anticipated Adventures

Matt and Jeff join our roundtable for a glimpse of just some of the games featured in our upcoming monster feature of top upcoming adventures. Bonus top five: favourite songs... Read more

April launch date rock solid for Molly Medusa: Queen of Spit

April launch date rock solid for Molly Medusa: Queen of Spit

Third-person 3D gravity-bending adventure coming to Nintendo Switch on April 20th... Read more

Another Fisherman's Tale to emerge soon in VR

Another Fisherman's Tale to emerge soon in VR

Sequel to 2019 puzzle-adventure totally reinvents mechanics for PSVR2, Meta Quest 2, and all PC VR platforms... Read more

Anemoiapolis: Chapter 1 arrives on Windows PC

Anemoiapolis: Chapter 1 arrives on Windows PC

Debut installment of first-person "liminal spaces" horror series available now on Steam and itch.io... Read more

Kickstarter on upcoming calendar for Randal's Tuesday

Kickstarter on upcoming calendar for Randal's Tuesday

Prequel to 2014 time-looping adventure to coincide with ten-year anniversary of predecessor's release... Read more