SAN FRANCISCO—Legendary game programmer Ken Williams needed only a moment to chew on my question. He and equally famed game designer Roberta Williams had set themselves up for the query by recounting ...

Right before her 20-plus year retirement, Roberta Williams could see how the video game industry was about to leave the adventure game genre behind. Roberta and Ken Williams would sell Sierra On-Line, ...

We connected King’s Quest creator Roberta Williams to comedy writer Mike Drucker, who may be her biggest fan, for a ...

Sierra On-Line was a major pioneer in the video game space throughout the 70s and 80s, with the brand getting a revival under Activision just under a decade ago. One of its more notable titles was ...

Roberta and Ken Williams, the founders of Sierra On-Line, helped mainstream the idea of narrative-driven games. Consider Roberta's games — "Mystery House," "Mixed-up Mother Goose," "Phantasmagoria" ...

Netflix’s video game history series High Score is at its absolute best when it lets video game creators talk about their creative process, offering a fascinating insight into how someone actually goes ...

Roberta Williams is already a legend in video game history. One of the central cogs of Sierra On-Line back in the day alongside co-founder and husband Ken Williams, Roberta oversaw the development of ...

Roberta Williams has shared a heartfelt tribute to her friend and hitman Andrew Veniamin on her birthday and the 20-year anniversary of his death. Veniamin, known as 'Benji', was shot dead in the of ...

I realized that this pioneer industry that I had never considered ... was actually a new frontier. And it was unencumbered by the ossification and the prejudices that I was already seeing in the film ...

Even after she retired from making adventure games, Sierra On-Line co-founder Roberta Williams never stopped having adventures. After a legendary career as a pioneer of the adventure genre, creating ...

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COLUMBIA — That was her, 7 years old and clutching an orange fountain drink, sitting on the bleachers at the old Immaculate Conception gym on Charleston’s Coming Street, watching. Not so much the ...