Mobile

Old Sierra Games Host Gets C&D From Activision

Sarien.net is formerly the site where you could play, for free, classic Sierra games, such as Police Quest, in your browser. We say “formerly” because Activision owns that stuff now, and its lawyer-mans sent them a letter.


January 14, 2011
Mobile

Play Leisure Suit Larry On Your iPad or iPhone For Free

Kotaku AU

And King’s Quest, and Space Quest… and whole host of others. If you head to this nifty website with your iPad web browser, you can gain access to a whole set of old-school Sierra point and click adventures, tailored for the iPad touch interface.


December 21, 2010
In Real Life

What If Indiana Jones Was A… Classic PC Adventure Game

Oh, wait, it was. Twice. OK, then, if it was an even older adventure game, maybe it would have looked like this!


December 15, 2010
In Real Life

If Fine Art Was A Busted Video Game

Kristoffer Zetterstrand’s works take traditional painting and smash it head-first into things that aren’t traditional painting. Often, that means video games.


November 10, 2010
In Real Life

What If Star Wars Was A… Classic PC Adventure Game

We’ve seen what Star Wars would look like as a classic Lucasarts adventure game, but artist Andy Rash’s glorious pixel art looks so much like a classic Sierra adventure game that it’s tough not to wonder what could have been.


October 4, 2010
News

Classic Adventure Games Get Well-Deserved Coffee Table Book

Before Lucasarts came along, the top adventure game minds in the world worked for a now-defunct publisher called Sierra. This coffee table book collects the art from those games, and I am now feeling very nostalgic.


August 3, 2010
In Real Life

The Big Book Of Classic Adventure Games

There’s a big book coming out that’s all about classic PC adventure games. Monkey Island, Police Quest, Zork, the works.


July 7, 2010
In Real Life

When Instant Death Was Only A Step Away

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It’s not until you look at the games of the past that you realise how easy the games of today really are.


May 25, 2010
In Real Life

Abbey Road, The Video Game

As seen on I Heart Chaos NSFW.


May 20, 2010
In Real Life

Leisure Suit…Lenny?

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Alright Ashcraft. I’ll see your Japanese schoolgirl drumming and raise you a one-man bad, who is named after a classic 80′s/90′s adventure game series from Sierra.