Happy birthday to an essential PC gaming archival project. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On the occasion of its 20th birthday, ...

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 ...

I love adventure games and as good as graphics have become for the current games (I have bootcamp and have played demos and games, etc) I still am a fan of adventure games. So finally I decided that I ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I think the headline might give the wrong impression to some people. ScummVM isn't general-purpose like DOSBox: each supported game engine has been painstakingly reimplemented in modern code. It's not ...