The first widely-played video game wasn’t Pong, or Donkey Kong, or Space Invaders. It wasn’t made by Nintendo or Atari. Instead, imagine a bunch of scruffy young nerds at MIT in 1962, given free rein ...

Today is the first day of the new exhibit at the Museum of the Moving Image called Spacewar! Video Games Blast Off. We had a chance to check out the exhibit – and play a bunch of the video games – and ...

MIT creates a simulation to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Spacewar. A relic of the early days of minicomputers, it was one of the first computer video games and set the stage for many others, ...

Back in 1961, Steve Russell was toying around with electronics at the Tech Model Railroad Club at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He created a game called Spacewar!, an early computer game ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized ...

In a nutshell: Video game enthusiasts are a nostalgic bunch that often enjoy revisiting some of yesterday's greatest titles. Unfortunately for many, the aging hardware used to play those original ...