(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 ...

The first widely-played video game wasn’t Pong, or Donkey Kong, or Space Invaders. It wasn’t made by Nintendo or Atari. Instead, imagine a bunch of scruffy young nerds at MIT in 1962, given free rein ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. For anyone who remembers video game arcades, the experience of seeing these cabinets in a museum setting is ...

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 ...