Anyone who knows anything about the first games ever made won’t be surprised to hear that Tennis for Two is a supremely simple game. It was invented by American physicist William Higinbotham in 1958, ...

Long before video games became something you downloaded or streamed, they existed as curiosities built by scientists who ...

Today, creating a ground-breaking video game is akin to making a movie. You need a story, graphic artists, music, and more. But until the middle of the 20th century, there were no video games. While ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Joshua grew up in poverty, deep in the Middle of Nowhere, Alabama. Gaming was a rarely afforded escape from reality that persisted throughout his life, something that saw him through good times and ...

Do you remember the first video game you couldn't stop playing? Maybe it was the satisfying clunk of a Pac-Man joystick at the local pizza shop or (if you were lucky enough to live somewhere cool) the ...

2025 was a great year for roguelike games, with “Hades II” and “Elden Ring Nightrein” standing out. “Absolum” is definitely ...

A look back at the history of darts video games, and an investigation into why we still haven't had a truly great one.