One of my absolute favorite parts of my personal gaming history is when I discovered the world of PC games. I’m talking about ...

MIT creates a simulation to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Spacewar. A relic of the early days of minicomputers, it was one of the first computer video games and set the stage for many others, ...

With some MIT students, Alan Kotok was able to help complete one of the first computer games ever made. Named Spacewar, the game was made on a PDP-1 computer in 1962, 10 years before Pong was released ...

Spacewar!, the first known digital video game ever made, is now available on the Analogue Pocket thanks to the new PDP-1 Core developed with openFPGA. FPGA, or field-programmable gate array, is a type ...

For people like Rob, the protagonist of Nick Hornby's High Fidelity, the past is infallibly evoked by popular music. But for those of us who file our personal histories by video games the Game On ...