is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories. It sounds like a cyberpunk fan’s ...

Westworld is, in many ways, a giant game. The Man in Black plays it as such, for example. The park itself is an open-ended simulation of sorts, with various narratives dynamically produced. Rather ...

It’s 2017, and conversational interfaces (people talking with machines the same way they talk to other people) are everywhere. Siri has become a household name. Taco Bell lets you order tacos over ...

In my review of Get Lamp, the documentary about text adventures, I mentioned that the original Infocom employees believed the market for these games could exist for hundreds of years. After all, the ...

Two of the most popular casual gaming genres are visual novels and interactive fiction. These unique niches focus less on intense gameplay and mechanics, instead emphasizing compelling characters and ...

In The Pause Between The Ringing is a set of stories nestling within one another. An interplay of text and built environments, it falls within the intersection of literary fiction and gaming. Bright ...

When chat fiction app Yarn launched its new 'Choose Your Own Adventure' style stories earlier this month, it brought in the big guns: Yarn hired 19-year-old Landon Rivera, the creator behind the viral ...

Change the story of a novel or comic at the touch of a button! Interactive fiction technology is now set to change the way people read books Change the story of a novel or comic at the touch of a ...

This originally appeared on The Chimerist, a site devoted to the intersection of art, stories, and technology. Whatever interactive fiction is (and we’re still figuring that out) it suffers from all ...

When we play a new game, the first thing we normally want to see is how good the graphics are. Then comes the story plot/gameplay. These amazing graphics from today are all thanks to the vast ...