Spacewar!, the first known digital video game ever made, is now available on the Analogue Pocket thanks to the new PDP-1 Core developed with openFPGA. FPGA, or field-programmable gate array, is a type ...

It was a pilgrimage of sorts. Some of the biggest, most established names in the nearly $140 billion game industry quietly descended on Washington D.C. this week. Names like Warren Spector, Richard ...

A tiny ship casts off glowing trails as it banks and gets slowly pulled towards a star in the middle of the screen. On the other side of the screen, a torpedo approaches. I shoot tiny glittering beams ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences is honoring the creators of “Spacewar!” with Pioneer Awards during an upcoming event ...

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 ...

I am terrible at Spacewar! Let me note that the exclamation point was already in the title, and that my mediocrity brings me no joy. Until last week, I had never had the chance to play what is ...

Shrieks and groans build in a fourth-floor conference room in the Gates Computer Science Building as computer avatars slide across a technicolor wonderland of obstacles and opponents. Laughter fills ...

The first video game tournament was held on October 19th, 1972. Competitors gathered at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab in Los Altos, California to do battle in the sci-fi rocket combat game ...