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
Delving deep into Stasis: Bone Totem with the Brotherhood
Brothers Nic and Chris Bischoff drop by to discuss life in South Africa and everything you always wanted to know about their highly anticipated new adventure due out this month. Bonus top five: Favourite isometric games... Read more
Liva’s Story DLC springs up for Gerda: A Flame in Winter
Available now on PC and Switch, brand-new prequel installment tells the standalone tale of a WWII resistance leader... Read more
Appointed launch date arrives for HRO: Adventures of a Humanoid Resources Officer
Puzzle-driven visual novel adventure in a retro sci-fi universe now on Steam... Read more
The Bunny Graveyard to be unearthed in 2023
Minigame-filled demo available for upcoming five-part episodic cartoon rabbit thriller on PC... Read more
Dagdrøm served up on Windows and Mac
Classic-styled point-and-click adventure available now for download on Steam and itch.io... Read more
Spirits of Baciu: The Deception to materialize in 2024
Free standalone prologue to hand-drawn dark fantasy puzzle adventure available for download... Read more
Broken Spectre coming together for VR release this summer
Story-driven cosmic horror described as "Firewatch meets The Thing in the Canadian wilderness"... Read more
Podcast fellowship with the Classic Gamers Guild
Anna Vigue and Paul Korman of the Classic Gamers Guild join us to talk about Paul's upcoming The Phantom Fellows, plus five years of podcasting, classic Sierra nostalgia, and a whole lot more. Bonus top five: Favourite ghost stories! (Any medium.)... Read more
Playable prologue offers glimpse of Spirit of Midnight
Supernatural cartoon animal adventure coming to PC and Nintendo Switch later this year... Read more
Closer the Distance drawing nearer to release
Slice-of-life narrative adventure from the creators of Orwell "coming soon" to PC and consoles... Read more
Evil Dreams to awaken this year on Steam
Hand-painted side-scrolling adventure set in "a world of nightmares" revealed for Windows PC... Read more
A Pretty Broken Adventure being put together for PC
Hand-drawn point-and-click fantasy adventure underway from the creator of Cleo: A Pirate's Tale... Read more
New adaptation of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express inbound
Microids Studio Lyon to deliver "modernized" reimagining of the Queen of Crime's 1934 classic whodunit... Read more
Enypnion Redreamed to become real this fall
Point-and-click dark fantasy adventure to be reimagined with new content, voices and a revamped story... Read more
Demo offers first look at Death Trick: Double Blind
Investigative visual novel-styled adventure from the creators of The Rewinder unveiled for 2023 release... Read more