Before Pong there was Computer Space, the first commercial video game. The progenitor of today’s US$175 billion industry debuted on Oct. 15, 1971, at the Music Operators of America trade show in ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally circa 2010. If he was forced to pick a favorite ...

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, ...

Facepalm: Remember when Diablo Immortal made headlines for becoming the lowest-scoring game on Metacritic based on user reviews? Blizzard has managed to repeat the unwanted feat on a different ...

Mock reviews are a widespread practice within the games industry, yet due to the secretive nature of the work involved, they remain an under-discussed branch of the feedback process – particularly in ...

RPG 'A good idea, infinite drive, and lots of Diet Pepsi': How YouTube essayist Majuular's life changed course telling the story of Ultima across 2 years and more than 20 hours of documentaries Games ...

The Bond license (to kill) was wasted on a lot of crappy C64 games. View to a Kill was pants, as was The Living Daylights. But Live and Let Die fared much better as, instead of following the film's ...