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What Was The Very First Video Game?

10 Inspiring Game Design Ideas to Spark Your Next Creative Project

Video game history is filled with rich decades of innovation. It started with titles like OXO (1952) and Tennis for Two (1958). All the way to advanced modern projects like Monster...

15 Photos from the Simple But Perfect 1970s Gaming Life

Gaming is now everywhere, particularly due to the fact that we all have smartphones. Between those devices, home computers, and dedicated consoles, we can game in a myriad of ways....

The Video Game Crash of 1983 — How One Game Nearly Destroyed an Industry

English: E.T. and Centipede games packaging from the excavation of the landfill site of the 1983 Atari video game burial. Video games have been around since the 1950s, with the fi...

The Video Game Crash of 1983 — How One Game Nearly Destroyed an Industry

English: E.T. and Centipede games packaging from the excavation of the landfill site of the 1983 Atari video game burial. Video games have been around since the 1950s, with the fi...

15 Vintage Photos of Gaming in the ’70s & ’80s

Video games have been around for quite a while, and it's always a good time remembering the roots of it all. Mostly because, for most of us, the golden era of gaming is behind us....

15 People Share the Oldest Video Game They Remember Playing

Video games have been with us for quite a while now, helping many generations grow and discover new ways to solve problems. As we grow older, we often look fondly on the first few...

What's Your Favorite Gaming Memory? - XBOX 25th Anniversary

In celebration of Xbox’s 25th Anniversary, Fanta and Xbox teamed up to release special-edition cans showcasing iconic characters from legendary gaming franchises. The collection fe...

Reel Quick: A Brief History of the Fishing Minigame

​ Fishing and video games seem like an odd match, but few side activities have become as beloved. This look at a brief history of fishing minigames in video games follows the unexp...

Best Selling Game on Every Sega Console

The Sega logo over a blue field with the company's consoles spread around. Sega has been in the game business since the 1960s, producing all kinds of electromechanical arcade game...

Best Selling Game on Every Sega Console

The Sega logo over a blue field with the company's consoles spread around. Sega has been in the game business since the 1960s, producing all kinds of electromechanical arcade game...

How Online Gaming is Shaping Digital Entertainment

Online gaming used to be a bit of a niche market, somewhat sidelined compared to more ‘serious’ entertainment, like music, film, or television. Even with the rise of the console in...

How Hip-Hop Culture Became the Blueprint for the Digital Gaming Generation

Picture the Tunnel, circa 1998. Not the music necessarily, though that was part of it. The energy. The way everyone in that room understood, without anyone explaining it, that some...

One of the Best Sega Games Ever Released 30 Years Ago Today

Sega is one of the key companies of modern gaming, having succesfully transitioned from console gaming to publishing over the last thirty-five years. In that time, the publisher ha...

How Black Engineer Jerry Lawson Made Modern Gaming Possible

*Millions of gamers swap discs, download new titles and access digital libraries without realizing those conveniences trace back to Gerald “Jerry” Lawson, a pioneering engineer who...

The Rise of Real-Time Data in Modern Online Gaming Experiences

Online gaming is an ever-changing industry, offering new features, technology, and experiences as it evolves. Faster internet, and faster computation have really sped up the pace w...

The five best years in video game history ranked: Which gaming year was the greatest ever?

From 1998's Zelda: Ocarina of Time to 2001's Halo, explore the five greatest years in video gaming history and find out how 2026 could stack up.

What is ‘GoreBox’, the video game temporarily banned by the CICC?

Learn a little bit more about 'GoreBox' and its userbase

Iconic Computer Games From the 2000s

If there’s one universal thing about our childhood, it must be the legendary computer games we all grew up playing in the 2000s. Even if you had a favorite game that you believed n...

30 Years Later, This Is Still One Of Nintendo’s Most Important Releases

Nintendo has been — and remains — a key piece of the gaming ecosystem. The publisher has been a major fixture of the industry for decades, with the Nintendo Entertainment System be...

The Complicated History of GTA Controversies

You don't become one of the biggest, most profitable media franchises in human history without stepping on a few toes, especially when there’s literally a violent felony in your na...

Video Game History Foundation calls on the ESA to find a way to ‘legally preserve’ digital-only games for research

"Asking museums to download a copy of GTA 6 and hope it'll run in 50 years is not a solution"

An NES Cartridge Sends Gamers Down Memory Lane (And We Can’t Blame Them)

If you’ve been a fan of video games for a while, there are some rights of passage that you’ve no doubt experienced along the way. That’s especially true if you were playing games d...

An NES Cartridge Sends Gamers Down Memory Lane (And We Can’t Blame Them)

If you’ve been a fan of video games for a while, there are some rights of passage that you’ve no doubt experienced along the way. That’s especially true if you were playing games d...