James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

One of my absolute favorite parts of my personal gaming history is when I discovered the world of PC games. I’m talking about MS-DOS titles, well before Windows was a thing. Before the days of in-app ...

Introduced at the Canadian National Exhibition in 1950, Bertie the Brain, which Popular Mechanics dubbed “the world’s first arcade game,” was just one of several groundbreaking inventions from the ...

On a midsummer’s day in 1999, Billy L. Mitchell planted himself in front of a game machine at the Funspot Family Fun Center in New Hampshire. On it he started a game in which a yellow disc eats its ...

Vancouver has become a hub of the North American gaming industry thanks to a lot of teamwork and cross-pollination Mucking around with an Apple II one summer in the early 1980s, Don Mattrick and Jeff ...

There's no question that computer games have been one of the major driving forces behind the last couple of decades of computing, with programmers and hardware developers constantly challenging each ...