Long before video games became something you downloaded or streamed, they existed as curiosities built by scientists who weren’t trying to entertain the world. In the late 1950s, screens were rare and ...

As its blocks fall, Tetris has continued to fly high, in more ways than one. Tetris is so simple, and yet it has impacted the world so much since its release over 40 years ago. GQ Magazinehas named ...

The first video game ever created was Tennis for Two in 1958, and while it was an important milestone in the history of the medium, it’s less well-known than the ones that followed. Even 1962’s ...

Believe it or not, video games are now a hobby with a half-century-long history. Pong is perhaps the first video game to bring gaming to mainstream audiences in the early 1970s, and now it's possible ...

Tennis for Two was developed as a display piece for the Brookhaven National Laboratory’s public exhibition to showcase the institution’s Donner Model 30 analog computer. It featured a DuMont Lab ...

Two arcade cabinets for Nolan Bushnell’s Computer Space, regarded as the first commercially sold video game ever, have been listed on eBay. The games, which predated Pong by about a year, are ...

Video games have come a long way since their inception in the 1970s. The first video games were very simplistic in concept, owing to the limited technology at the time. Now, though, video game ...