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
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
Bent Oak Island growing closer to release
Retro point-and-click indie adventure starring fraternal twins coming this year to Windows PC... Read more
Kickstarter emerges from At the Sea of Madness
Lovecraft-inspired point-and-click horror adventure coming to PC and mobile devices this year... Read more
Spiritless Ltd. open for business on Steam
Demo for comedic hand-drawn ghostbusting adventure also available for download on Windows and Mac... Read more
Shooting the Breeze with The Drifter's Dave Lloyd
Powerhoof's co-founder joins us from Down Under to chat about his upcoming gorgeous pixel art pulp thriller, The Drifter. Bonus top five: Best games of 1990 kick off our ongoing year-by-year analysis... Read more
June is the time for SENSEs: Midnight on consoles
Ports of old-school 3D survival horror coming to PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch platforms... Read more
The Creepy Syndrome video walkthrough
Stories of a disturbed mind that intertwine with each other while being analysed by a mysterious psychiatrist. The Creepy Syndrome is an anthology that offers four different psychological horror tales, each with its own gameplay and retro pixel art style... Read more
Demo has the scoop on Times & Galaxy
Cartoon journalism adventure in space coming to PC on Steam in 2024... Read more
Chronique des Silencieux to be revealed later this year
Kickstarter coming next month for isometric deduction-based mystery set in 1970s France... Read more