Video games are everywhere. So who was the first person to come up with the idea of playing a game on a computer screen?

This weekend, the 20th Long Night of Computer Games took place in Leipzig. Our author co-founded this longest-running game ...

Along with its spiritual predecessor Colossal Cave Adventure, Zork and its sequels pioneered the genre of the text adventure, graphics-less parser-based games that have seen a renaissance years under ...

When most people think of early video games, they likely picture the 1980s, when plenty of popular games were released. Still, games got their start in 1958, and between then and 1979, plenty of ...