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Police Quest 3: The Kindred - A Fair & Balanced Retrospective

In his latest video retrospective, the Space Quest Historian returns to a different classic Sierra series for an in-depth look at the highs and lows – mostly lows – in the third Police Quest adventure, The Kindred. ... Read more
25 Must-Play Adventure Games for 2025!

Of all the great new adventure games on the horizon, we've narrowed down the top 25 we're most excited about for the upcoming calendar year... Read more
The Classic Gamers Guild Podcast goes to Monkey Island – twice!

Anna Vigue and The Phantom Fellows designer Paul Korman take a break from Sierra for a long-overdue visit to the first two LucasArts piratey classics... Read more
Why The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour deserve better... and why they don't

In his latest "fair and balanced retrospective" video, Space Quest Historian sets his sights on Trilobyte's classic – or maybe not so classic? – 1993 adventure game and its sequel to find out why they seem to attract a lot of hate from modern reviewers. ... Read more
AdventureGameGeek's top games of 2024

In his latest amusing video, AdventureGameGeek narrows down the many great releases of 2024 to a personal top five adventure games (plus honorable mentions). ... Read more
The Hotspot Highlights – The Best Adventure Games of 2024

To close out 2024, we celebrate the very best adventure games released in the past twelve months, counting down to our #1 Adventure Game of the Year... Read more
Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum – A Fair & Balanced Retrospective

The Space Quest Historian is back with his next deep dive retrospective of the Tex Murphy series, this time for the vastly improved, if still more than a little janky second game. ... Read more
Even MORE King's Quest IV details

Following his ALMOST exhaustive exploration of King's Quest IV, OneShortEye is back to fill in the remaining gaps with another insightfully detailed look at The Perils of Rosella... Read more
Now showing: Fogtown TV pilot – Mystery of the Moth Napper!

The first episode of the whimsical Sherblock Holmes-inspired puppet series debuts worldwide today, completely free to all on YouTube... Read more
Classic Gamers Guild Podcast – New old games and ranking non-Sierra/LucasArts adventures

In a fun month of new podcasts, Anna Vigue and The Phantom Fellows creator Paul Korman rank some games made by neither Sierra nor LucasArts, then explore a fan-made remake, a demake and a voice mod for various beloved Sierra classics. (Because a whole month without Sierra was just too much to bear.) ... Read more
Why timers in Sierra games are so broken

Many Sierra VGA remakes from 1991-1996 are so infamously plagued with timer problems that it's a mystery how they ever got out the door in the first place. In his latest video,the Space Quest Historian takes a look at why this happened, using the black sheep of the Space Quest family as an example... Read more
Gabriel Knight sightseeing in New Orleans

A vacation to visit the locations that inspired Sins of the Fathers may be the next best thing to actually being in a Gabriel Knight adventure. ... Read more
The Dirty Secrets of King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella

You thought you already knew King's Quest IV inside and out? In his latest video, OneShortEye highlights in detail all the "dirty secrets" the game conceals that aren't quite as family friendly as its reputation suggests, whether from secret game mechanics, hidden developer messages or funny words that confuse the internal swear detection, dead ends, not-so-random RNG elements, and less than optimal endings. ... Read more