From 1998's Zelda: Ocarina of Time to 2001's Halo, explore the five greatest years in video gaming history and find out how ...

Before PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo dominated the gaming world, plenty of strange, ambitious, and forgotten consoles tried ...

Video games are still a young medium in the grand scheme of things, but have been around for well over 50 years now. After the arcade boom in the 70s, home consoles slowly took over the gaming ...

When Game Informer was unceremoniously shuttered in 2024 after operating for more than 30 years, it was yet another sobering reminder that corporations shouldn’t be trusted to cherish and preserve ...

Today, the Video Game History Foundation announced an early-access launch of its digital archive, including magazines, catalogs, behind-the-scenes content, and much more — and it’s completely free to ...

After a brief tease last week, the Video Game History Foundation has officially thrown the virtual doors open to its massive digital library. Designed to be a free-to-access resource for researchers, ...

Explore the best game franchises in video game history, ranking top gaming series that shaped genres, inspired innovations, and defined how players experience games worldwide. Final Fantasy VII ...

Why it matters: Researching video game history often requires sifting through analog materials that can be difficult or even impossible to access. The Video Game History Foundation recently took a ...

Which retro video game console is best? As video games continue to develop rapidly, games of yesterday grow in nostalgic popularity. In earlier years, the competition between gaming platforms caused ...

In the mid-’70s, Mattel Electronics started putting together a plan to release a game console that would end up taking on Atari, showing the future of what games could be, and introducing what remains ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...