Quick: What are video games going to look like in the year 2024? Will we be beaming games directly into our brains? Will eXistenZ or The Matrix come to be a reality? Will Half-Life 3 finally come out? » 1/09/14 2:00pm 1/09/14 2:00pm

You may not remember that Timothy Leary, the psychologist renowned for his advocacy of psychedelic drugs and a key figure of the 1960s counterculture movement, dabbled in video games development in the 1980s. Now a trove of games discovered inside hundreds of discs in Leary's archives will be playable at the New York… » 9/28/13 3:00pm 9/28/13 3:00pm

Despite how silly it looks, the Pac-Man animated series broadcast on ABC in the early 1980s was a modest success. It lasted only two seasons, but that can partly be attributed to the crash of home console video gaming taking the subject off people's minds. » 2/26/12 5:00pm 2/26/12 5:00pm

Gary Garcia, who teamed with Jerry Buckner to perform the 1982 hit "Pac-Man Fever," a song synonymous with 1980s pop culture and America's early love affair with arcade gaming, died yesterday at his home in Englewood, Fla. He was 63. » 11/18/11 7:40pm 11/18/11 7:40pm

The company behind the original video game competition, 1982's Starcade, has launched a site that packages clips from the old game show into a format that lets you "play" Starcade online. » 8/28/11 6:00pm 8/28/11 6:00pm

When they cashed in on the video game crazy nearly 30 years ago, Jerry Buckner and Gary Garcia didn't have to worry about licensing. Columbia/CBS records took care of that as Pac-Man Fever soared to No. 8 on the charts in 1982. Of course, the price they paid came later, in the form of CBS's insistence that they think… » 6/30/11 9:30pm 6/30/11 9:30pm

Wax nostalgic with a sports gamer of a certain age and it's not long before he will mention, like a venerated religious text, the Three-Ring Binder. It was the original franchise mode.

I'm 37, and I've yet to meet a guy from my generation who didn't keep his own stats in a sports video game and doesn't still take… » 4/16/11 5:00pm 4/16/11 5:00pm

A researcher at Oxford University queried adults who were 16 years old in 1986 and found a correlation between an interest in video gaming and a lower likelihood of going on to college. » 4/08/11 9:30pm 4/08/11 9:30pm

One could forgive a child of 1991 if he were to look at a photo of Captain Lou Albano and say, "That's Super Mario," or a teenager from 1986 if he were to say, "That's Cyndi Lauper's dad." [Deadspin] » 3/17/11 3:20pm 3/17/11 3:20pm

As seen this weekend during Gamescom 2010. » 8/23/10 10:00pm 8/23/10 10:00pm

With no sequel, no reboot, no spinoffs - just one movie and one video game - The Goonies is a rarity, a phenomenon supported by two decades of nearly unexploited nostalgia. The film's 25th anniversary of its release is today. » 6/07/10 10:30pm 6/07/10 10:30pm