Yeah, @DeusIrae asked for favorite reviewers a while back: my recollection is that he found reviewers who agreed to talk to him but hasn’t found time to schedule interviews yet, let alone start writing the article.
“deep dive into obscure IF games from like… the 70s?” Yeah, I tend to think of retro IF as a small niche, but Ian Greener’s piece about Hampstead and UK IF from the 80s is one of our most-read articles.
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Not to derail this thread (didn’t Hanon say there was now a way to make a reply as a new thread? I don’t see it) but have you tried Allison Parrish’s Inform 7 Concepts and Strategies? It’s almost exactly this.