Some of the most popular villains in video game history are tools for great storytelling. Their background can sometimes become the basis for incredible discussions. A few times, antagonists can even ...

Gaming history is defined by strange accidents and hidden origins. A physicist created the first digital tennis game in 1958.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Jagneaux is a writer and analyst, covering MMOs and retro games. In one of the most significant breakthroughs in video game ...

Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) watches videos with David Walsh (left), president of the National Institute on Media and Family, at a news conference in the Senate Office Building on the effects of ...

To appreciate where gaming is in the modern era then you’ll need to understand the industry’s history. There is some wonderful writing on the subject that covers everything from Nintendo’s evolution ...

The first video game ever created was Tennis for Two in 1958, and while it was an important milestone in the history of the medium, it’s less well-known than the ones that followed. Even 1962’s ...

Once upon a time not so very long ago, movies and TV shows that were based on video games seemed eternally destined to disappoint. But thanks to more recent success stories like Peacock’s Twisted ...

Introduction / Mark J.P. Wolf -- Video games caught up in history: accessibility, teleological distortion, and other methodological issues / Carl Therrien -- What's Victoria got to do with it? Toward ...