GamebookNews.com was down for a few weeks – and now it looks weird! Yes – I know. Sadly, this website (among a bunch of others I had on the same shared webhost) got hacked and infected with some sort of malicious code. Luckily, I have a friend who was kind enough to help me backup …
If winter is a time of dormancy, depressive disorders and rampaging White Walkers then it has also resulted in an inactive GBN. So first things first – sorry for this (we hope temporary) cessation of gamebook and interactive fiction goodness. It has not been caused by a sudden loss of interest in the likes of …
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from everyone at GameBookNews.com. Lets hope that 2022 will be a year filled with gamebook adventures!
Is GBN dead? Not quite. Since we did not receive the funding we wanted from Kulturrådet (Sweden), we have no means to pay writers, and hence update the pages. What about a Patreon then? That takes time to run as well. Sadly, the Patreon donation process is not as automatic as one wants it to …
This feature is a departure from GBN’s usual content. It is not a newsbyte about a recent release of interactive fiction, nor a review of a gamebook author’s work. Rather it concerns something a bit more serious and markedly less fun: the very survival of Gamebook News.com. But first, some backstory! Recently, GBN applied for …
Producing informative and entertaining material for an interactive fiction website is certainly not an easy task, especially when maintaining an acceptable level of timeliness, frequency and accuracy is important to both us and our readers. As GBN continues to evolve and expand its features, we’re now seeking reader feedback to let us know what’s currently …
Welcome to the new decade – the 20th year of the 3rd millennium – and (more importantly) to this freshly upgraded and visually enhanced version of Gamebook News! Five years ago J. Pingo Lindstrom, GBN’s founder and Executive Editor, revisited the first Fighting Fantasy gamebook: Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone’s classic The Warlock of Firetop …
We’ve got quite a variety of new interactive games to report on this month – there’s surely something for everybody in this interesting and diverse selection! Trap for Winners A sci-fi interactive narrative featuring tabletop elements, Trap for Winners is the forthcoming title currently in development from Prime Games (developer of Hwarang and Kumiho, …
GAMEBOOKNEWS.COM – remember the name, bookmark the link! PenguinComics.com released the first Random Solo Adventure: Fantasy Dungeon gamebook in November 2015. At this time we noticed that there weren’t any gamebook news-sites available for these kind of launches – so we created one! We’d like this new website to become an online platform for all …