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Competition Reviews:
Other IF Game Reviews:
They're interactive. They're fiction. Granted, they're not text based and thus might not be entirely apropos here, but they're closely enough related that I feel this to be the proper place on the site for them.
Please note: There are more video game reviews on the Video Game Reviews portion of the Miscellany page.
Many members of the IF community hang out and chat on ifMUD. I've made a few pages for fellow "mudders" that probably won't make much sense to you unless you've been onmud:
ClubFloyd was founded on September 2, 2007. The idea behind it is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction. Here are the transcripts from our game-play sessions (these are rather lengthy and may take time to load, depending on your Internet connection): 
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