Back in 1987, a little company called Lucasfilm Gaming threw together a new video game engine called SCUMM. This stood for “Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion,” as it was made specifically to ...

ScummVM, the collection of recreated last-century game engines that allows replaying classic adventures from the likes of LucasArts and Revolution, has just added support for Macromedia Director. This ...

What just happened? The developers of a program for running many classic PC games on modern computers recently released a big patch for its 20th anniversary. The update adds support for more games ...

ScummVM is a free and open source tool that makes it possible to run classic PC games on a wide variety of modern platforms. The software was originally designed to recreate the LucasArts game engine ...

It’s been a long time since we’ve had anything quite like Maniac Mansion, but Spanish developer Straynus is stepping up to fill the gap. The developer unveiled Cronela’s Mansion, which is a ...

ScummVM is a game engine designed to run old fashioned adventure games from LucasArts and other companies. Think Secret of Monkey Island, Sam and Max, and Maniac Mansion, among other games. There are ...

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Andrew is a freelance writer from UK who specialises in video game news. He has written for What Culture, Rock Paper Shotgun, and PCGamesN. In 2023, he finally caved and bought an Xbox Series X. If ...

I recently got back into an adventure gaming mood and took it upon myself to finally complete Grim Fandango.<br><br>The game was great and I want to get even more out of it. For those who don't know ...

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The Internation House of Mojo has posted the first in a series of articles called the Wilmunder Memoirs. Penned by Aric Wilmunder, who co-created the now-famous SCUMM game engine, the memoirs give us ...

The ScummVM community has just made the early CD-ROM gaming era more accessible. For five years, multiple people have worked on making Macromedia Director games playable on modern hardware, and today, ...