The creators of "SimCity" had a division that made Sim games for corporations. They were never released to the public. For the first time ever, this is their story.
Teppei Okada performs a bravura rendition of Super Mario Bros. — the sound effects included!
Habbo Hotel is an online community for teens to make friends and buy virtual goods. It also has been a haven for widespread virtual crime.
Rory Cellan-Jones interviews some of the developers at DMA (now known as Rockstar Games) about creating the first Grand Theft Auto game.
The "Animal Crossing" music team united for a special performance.
Skip to the 1:20 mark to see what UE5 running on a PS5 is capable of. It's… extremely detailed.
How selling small squares of paperboard or thick paper became a lucrative business.
When the video game company found itself with thousands of unsold copies of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, it came up with a solution.
Can you reach row 4 in Conway's Soldiers? Vsauce2 demonstrates the challenge of playing this mathematical game.
You'll be able to shred as Tony Hawk and friends again very soon.
Twenty years ago, "Perfect Dark," "No One Lives Forever" and a small handful of others showed the FPS video games didn't need to be a boys' club.
The game has you assume the role of a professional with your own power washing business. You'll need to clean an entire exterior of a home, from the front door to the porch. So… get to it.
This kind of reverse-engineering from raw binary to easy-to-read code isn't a simple process, but it's an effort that a growing community of hobbyist decompilers is undertaking to unlock the secrets behind some of their favorite games.
According to Mako Ray, "I recorded myself in different outfits playing random notes on each instrument and then i pitch shifted clips to match the song's notes."
Collect cute monsters and make your brain feel better.
Josh from Let's Game It Out has the time of his life torturing passengers in his diabolically awful virtual airport.
The irony isn't lost on me. Here I am, a Brooklyn physician in a time of pestilence, spending my few free hours playing a game set in a fictional America torn apart by plague.
Two-time Le Mans champ and current Nissan e.Dams Formula E driver Sebastien Buemi explains.
An extremely dedicated Super Mario Bros. fan paid tribute to the 35th anniversary to the game by spending a week arranging and rearranging 500 Rubik's Cubes to make a delightful stop motion short.
Seasons No. 2 and No. 3 in SB Nation's quest to win a national title with Western Illinois in "College Hoops 2K8"
In the midst of a pandemic, it's delightful to imagine doing whatever you like without worrying about making a living.
Motherboard traced some of the recent automated Switch buying to a particular, new bot that anyone can use.
Did Nintendo composer Koji Kondo hide an Easter egg inside Super Mario Bros.?
"You feel normal." "You feel normal." "You feel normal."
Matt Parker demonstrates a card game you can play while you're alone.
With social distancing forcing people apart, folks are resorting to other methods to keep their dating life intact.
Niantic is adding a new item called a Remote Raid Pass to Pokémon Go, letting you play raids that appear on the app's map or "Nearby" page without having to go to the physical location.
A YouTuber test flies some of the weirdest looking planes ever designed.
Millions of people have found comfort in the Switch smash hit. I, however, have found myself trapped in a endless cycle of kawaii capitalism.
We pick the best games for the Nintendo Switch, updated for April 2020.
Ryan Trahan found himself quarantined inside and wanted to test whether he could get ripped using only VR.
In the late 80s, Sierra's hokey horndog was connected to a major computer virus, and rumor had it that the publisher may have created it to punish pirates.
Nick Robinson is haunted by a typo in his favorite Nintendo game and is obsessed with getting this typographical mistake fixed.
"Animal Crossing" has recently gone what, in a less awful time, we might have called viral.
Pro driver Robb Holland breaks down exactly what he spent to build a quarantine sim-racing rig.
Desperate to watch some kind of previously unaired competition? "Jeopardy!" has you covered.
During quarantine, a guy and his brother made a Seinfeld horror game called "Sinfeld Chronicles" — and it's uh, a lot.
How Microsoft is placing its bets on a transformative decade.
What would happen if you plugged in a 1987 Commodore Amiga 500's artificial intelligence against a Macbook computer at a game of chess?
Nintendo's latest puzzle game for the Switch is set in a charming office environment inspired by safety signs. Players can solve puzzles with smart, slow solutions or smash their way to success with slapstick chaos.
A group of Bronx High School of Science students are reconstructing a virtual campus. They aren't finished yet, but it's clear how much detail has already gone into the product.
Like Apple, Nintendo tries to keep what they're working on a surprise. That only makes people want to know what's going on even more.
The infamous Corrupted Blood incident in the MMORPG helped scientists understand human behavior during a pandemic
Using satellite imagery and a little ingenuity, a determined gamer is working on building a virtual land modeled exactly on the Earth.
How early marketing campaigns for online gaming platforms suggested toxicity isn't a bug, it's a feature.
The global video game industry makes bank, grossing an estimated $150 billion in 2019. Just like Hollywood, the video game world has some trusty franchises they can rely on for steady revenue. Here are the top video game series of all time.
A restorationist unearths this dead Space Invaders Handheld Arcade Game from the 1980s and takes great pleasure in bringing it back to life.
Data centers consume 205 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually. Not great.
For nearly a decade, Kofie Yeboah had been haunted by a final level he could never defeat. This week, he decided it was finally time to beat it once and for all.
This game is exactly what it sounds like. But it's also the perfect way to get outside with actually going outside during quarantine.
How did we get here? Well, from "Rogue," of course — but even that game wasn't created in a vacuum.
Revisiting a seminal 2007 paper modeling WoW's Corrupted Blood incident.
Microsoft demoed the capabilities of its Xbox Series X (due in late 2020) yesterday, and it is really frickin' fast.
As Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, spreads, you're going to be spending a lot of time inside. Here are some of the best video games to help you pass the time.
You're sitting there, minding your own business, when the thought hits you. You wait for it to pass, but it forces its way to the front of your mind. There's no escaping the truth: you abandoned your Neopets, you monster.
"Video game history doesn't know how to make sense of her except to single her out."
From frog detectives to adventuring fruit, games are getting real cute.
The tiniest thrill of your life!
The current state of the world is, to put it mildly, not great. And while the internet is a source of bad news, it can also provide a small oasis of calm.
At the beginning of the PC game "The Longing," your character, a skinny gollum called a Shade, is ordered to wake their giant stone king in 400 days. That's 400 real-time days.
