Plenty of companies have made adventure games through the years. Find out more about them, from Infocom and Magnetic Scrolls through DreamCatcher and the late SouthPeak Interactive.
Activision
Activision owns the rights to the Infocom name, and has repackaged
some of the old text adventures. They've also produced new graphic
adventures, including some based in the Zork universe.
The Adventure
Company
They used to be DreamCatcher Interactive, before DreamCatcher
wanted to keep that name for their action games and have a
different one for the scads of adventure games they publish.
Cyan
Cyan created the bestselling Myst and its bestselling
sequel,
Riven. These days they're working on an online version of
Myst, sort of.
LucasArts
The company that brought us Grim Fandango and the Monkey
Island series.
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