Computer gaming really has grown up. Classic arcade title Pong turns 40 this week. The first commercially successful video game in history, Pong arrived in U.S. arcades on Nov. 29, 1972, and ...

Pong is lauded as the first video game ever published, but this title actually belongs to a lesser-known predecessor.

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 ...

My first PC game was technically Mario Is Missing, which I've written about before on the site, and that came with my family's first PC. X-Wing is the first game I got for Christmas from my ...

Bill Gates needed to write a game to ship with the first-ever PC, and it didn't turn out great.

Since its inception, it's been localized into 65 languages and played on every continent, including Antarctica. Though it doesn't come pre-installed in Windows computers anymore, users continue to ...