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 ...

In my senior year of college, I learned that The Sims 4 was coming out. I was STOKED. I pre-ordered it and ran out to the living room to brag to all of my housemates. Turns out, they never played the ...

My Ars colleagues were kicking back at the Orbital HQ water cooler the other day, and—as gracefully aging gamers are wont to do—they began to reminisce about classic Sierra On-Line adventure games. I ...

During the school day, the downstairs computer lab was insignificant. It was a room with irritating fluorescent lights and the oppressive silence that comes when a group of seventh graders is forced ...

Screenshot from an online emulator of 1985 edition of The Oregon Trail (Internet Archive) Back when I was playing these games on my family’s Apple IIc, they were often side-eyed by a generation that ...

Two weeks ago, my computer finally crashed for the last time. Being a descendent of Vikings and a lifelong gamer, I set the computer adrift on a longship, lit it aflame with a fire arrow, then bought ...

Every adolescent therapist I know keeps a deck of Uno cards in their office. Most also have a small library of classic board games on their shelf. But when other clinicians visit my office, they’re ...

Learning to play video games as an adult has helped transform my inner world. I played a lot of video games growing up. I have two brothers, and we played Nintendo in the mid to late ’90s, enjoying ...

I never really got that into games like Super Mario growing up. I think it was because my brother always beat me in any Nintendo 64 game we ever owned (except I dominated him on the Moo Moo Farm level ...

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 ...