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, ...

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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 ...

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair." Can a quote from Shakespeare’s Macbeth become a hacker's motto? This question haunted the Cannes Film Festival in May, and now, the Venice International Film Festival ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mike Stubbs covers esports, competitive games and the creator economy. The 1990s revolutionized gaming. As the decade that saw the ...