Spacewar

Playing the Revolution is an upcoming documentary series by Italian outfit Junk Food, which chronicles "the…

Programmed in the early 1960s, Spacewar! is the granddaddy of video games. It's inspired countless other games and…

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A New York University professor teaches a course in the history of hackers and hacking. Oh, to be back at NYU and be…

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In 1998, Stanford University's Henry Lowood began preserving video games and video game artifacts. Lowood, along…

Can video games have a Western canon?

Star Trek is as much a staple of geek culture as gaming, so it's no surprise that it's influence has shown up in…

Two arcade cabinets for Nolan Bushnell's Computer Space, regarded as the first commercially sold video game ever,…

From the creation of Spacewar! at MIT in 1961 to today's release of The Beatles: Rock Band from Cambridge-based…