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My first computer was an Apple IIe with 128KB of RAM, no hard drive, and a 5¼ inch floppy drive. One of the top educational games back then was Rocky’s Boots, an inventive game that taught the basics ...

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 ...

Sixty-five-year-old Ann Linsey was starting to worry about how easily she got distracted from whatever she was doing. “As you get older, it seems harder to do more things at once,” she says. Then she ...

On April Fool’s Day, Corsair joked about a game launcher launcher that would launch your PC game launchers. My colleague Mike Fahey and I halfway wished that it were real, and our conversation got me ...

After a fierce battle with an evil wizard and his skeleton minions, I found rest at an abbey. I had spent an excessive amount of time lost in the wilds of Britannia—a kingdom ruled by the benevolent ...

Storage space may be cheaper these days, but game installs have ballooned to match. When games routinely take up more than 100 GB, you do find yourself wondering how soon you'll be able to uninstall ...

I am a zillennial. Born on the border of Millennial and Gen Z; too early to get TikTok, too late to qualify for a pandemic stimulus check. And look, someone has to say it: Computer labs are antiquated ...

Like many of history’s greatest ideas, Tetris came about quite unintentionally. Alexey Pajitnov was a software engineer at the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow, tasked with testing a new type of ...

I've been trying to remember the name of an old computer game for a long time now, maybe one of you can help. My memory of it is very vague at this point, but here is what I can dig up: the game is ...

Whether your turn your PC off at night can be a controversial topic, depending on who you speak to. Older generations often told their children to leave their PC running, and only to reboot when it's ...