While Pong, a game resembling ping pong, is commonly cited as the first video game, the true title belongs to Tennis for Two, created in 1958 by U.S. physicist William Higinbotham.

Game consoles are often a hefty investment, but many of the options of years past had a shockingly high price tag when ...

Chuck E. Cheese will forever be known for its blend of animatronics, games, and entertainment -- a combination innovated by ...

At The A.V. Club, we’ve racked our brains, pored over cyphers, and collected all the clues to find episodes that laid it ...

It began aboard the high seas, a concept record about Elton John and Bernie Taupin's early days, and when the band got to Caribou Ranch, they'd turn out one of the greatest albums of the '70s ...

The 1970s saw the introduction of many home entertainment gadgets, like movie projectors and the first home video game ...

Hidden in plain sight along East 17th Street in Ammon, Idaho stands a retail phenomenon that defies economic gravity. Deseret Industries—or “the DI” as locals call it with knowing smiles—offers prices ...

The latest addition to the Arcade Archives dials the clock back to one of Namco's best games from 1996.

Simply put, it’s becoming very hard to make affordable, powerful consumer electronics. That’s going to hit makers of mass-market video game consoles as hard as anyone, perhaps harder.

The product acts like a typical tabletop game that you lay out flat, just like the cardboard play space for Monopoly or ...

Board — a first-ever face-to-face game console, launching today — blends the best of board games and video games to bring real-life connection back to the ...