Beloved 27-Year-Old Gaming Site Wipes Forums, Relaunches as Gambling Cash-Grab
10 months ago
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- Adventure Gamers, a long-standing site for point-and-click adventure games, has been transformed into a gambling affiliate site under new ownership.
- The site's history includes ownership changes, with Ivo Teel selling it to new owners who drastically altered its content and removed decades of forum posts.
- Former editor Jack Allin and other contributors left in 2022 due to disputes over pay and vision, leading to the creation of Adventure Game Hotspot (AGH) as a spiritual successor.
- The new owners, identified as ClickOut Media, have filled the site with gambling content, removed author bylines, and erased much of its original identity.
- Efforts are underway to archive the original forum content, with AGH and another site working to preserve the community's history.