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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Demo introduces Spooky Crew: Mask of the Mysterium
Pilot installment of planned short story series from the creator of Mars Underground coming early 2024... Read more
Lengthy demo powered up for CRT7
Retrofuturistic tech puzzler coming soon from the BAFTA-winning creator of SOLAS 128... Read more
Don't Nod to bring canine tale Koira to PC
Wordless hand-drawn fantasy adventure coming in 2025 from indie Belgian developer Studio Tolima... Read more
Unearthing The Crimson Diamond with Julia Minamata
Solo Canadian developer Julia Minamata joins us to talk about her upcoming adventure game, a gorgeous pixel art love letter to Laura Bow and other classic Sierra text parser games. Bonus top fives: most memorable Sierra deaths... Read more
The Murder Hotel currently under construction
Supernatural serial murder mystery "with a twist" unveiled for Windows PC on Steam... Read more
Demo plots course for upcoming Saltsea Chronicles
Story-driven adventure from the creators of Mutazione coming to PC, PS5 and Switch later this year... Read more
Demo delivered for Sons of Saturn
Narrative-driven, old-school slideshow horror adventure coming later this year to Windows, Mac and Linux... Read more
Kickstarter clears the way to Neo Junk City
Successful crowdfunding campaign to bring cyberpunk pixel art mystery to PC in 2025... Read more
Tall Story's game jam entry to be reborn as Heir of the Dog
Jekyll and Hyde freeware spoof from the creator of Lucy Dreaming to get full commercial expansion... Read more
Demo unleashed for Stars in the Trash
Full version of hand-animated watercolour cat adventure coming soon on Steam for Windows PC... Read more
Oxenfree II: Lost Signals review
Bigger and better than its predecessor in some ways, more bloated and less focused in others, Oxenfree II: Lost Signals is an intriguing sequel for those on the right wavelength for this kind of gameplay-lite narrative experience... Read more
The (Half) Year That Was
With 2023 passing the halfway point, Joshua, Jack and guest co-host Pascal look back on the highlights and disappointments of the first six months, with a final top five look ahead at the best still to come... Read more
The Haunted Hospice now open through Steam
First-person survival horror available now for download on Windows and Linux... Read more
GOBLiiiNS5 video walkthrough
In this sequel to the first Gobliiins, three adventurous elves must combine their skills to solve crazy puzzles in a strange universe. There's OUPS, who picks up and uses objects and is the most capable of communicating with other characters. ASGARD... Read more
Return to Grace video walkthrough
Follow archaeologist Adamari “Adie” Ito in the year 3820 AD as she embarks on a wildly dangerous mission to uncover what happened to the ancient artificial intelligence known as “Grace.” Adie has made it her life’s work to get to the heart of why Grace,... Read more