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 ...

(CNET) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - In its typically geeky fashion, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology celebrated the birth of one of the first video games by challenging students to re-create it on a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MIT students celebrated the 50th birthday of Spacewar - one of the earliest computer games, written in 1962 on an MIT computer the size of a fridge. The game was written by four students in 1962 on a ...