What was the first video game console? If you said the Atari 2600, you would be wrong, but we’d forgive you. After all, the Atari was early and widely sold. It also had the major features you expect ...

The gaming industry is in mourning this week following the news that one of its founding fathers, Ralph H Baer, has passed away at the age of 92. Baer was a true pioneer of the medium, responsible for ...

Fanboy rage isn't new; the console wars have been raging for forty years. We look back over the history of the industry and ask: who won? This is part one of a series, covering the earliest skirmishes ...

Oh man, the iFixit crew just hopped up another step on the Stairway to Awesome. They have opened up and explored a Magnavox Odyssey 100, successor to the world's first home games-console. Kyle Wiens ...

The first piece of tech gear that I could call my own wasn’t a computer; it was a game console–an original Sega Master System. I remember it, and the often-cheesy marketing that so appealed to my ...