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 ...

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 ...

I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now I explore wearable tech, VR/AR, tablets, gaming and future/emerging trends in our changing world. Other obsessions include magic, immersive theater, ...

Steve Russell appears remotely from the Computer History Museum, beside the last working PDP-1. Computers were not popular in 1961. The state-of-the-art at the time was the PDP-1, a $120,000 dollar ...

In the cultural landscape of 2018, video games are difficult to ignore. Consumers have been drawn to games this year in record numbers, partaking not only of lighthearted multiplayer romps like ...