It's about "Adventure" titles. Point-and-click, graphic, text-based, 1st-person, 3rd-person, dating sims ... it's all here.

And our own expert on this genre, Neal Chandran, is the one doing the talking.

These kinds of games disappeared from the mainstream for awhile, but it looks like they're making a comeback, and on an unlikely platform. Neal discusses the genre's history in today's editorial.

• December Editorial - Graphic Adventures: The Dead Genre That Never Really Died