video games

Native farming practices and settler-colonial imaginations in the video game "Empire: Total War."

You can hear it in your head: the grunt your character makes when hopping a fence or leaping into battle. Its sonic roots trace all the way back to 1973.

Video game history is lost faster than we can preserve it.

The game that launched today’s massive video game industry was not a roaring success. The oft-told story of why turns out to be off the mark.

How one video game tells the story of an industry.

The challenge of documenting a virtual world.

'Freedom!' tried to show the horrors of antebellum slavery and the courage of escaping slaves. But neither schools nor audiences were ready for it.

Gameplay can be useful in history classrooms – but manufacturers have to think about how children will be affected by the competition.

How video game designers are 'gaminiscing' World War II stories.

It lets us avoid harder questions about our culture.

Poke around the game’s fictional South and you’ll find cross-burning Klansmen, whom you are free to kill.

A video game portrays the Wild West’s famous detective agency as violent enforcers of order. But the modern-day company disagrees.

Long before parents freaked over the ubiquitous video game, they flipped out over another newfangled fad.

Gaming in the shadow Charlottesville's "Unite the Right" rally.

"Tanglewood" is the first new Sega Genesis game in years - the latest example of gaming developers looking back, not ahead.

Amidst so much politics and tribalism, they can provide portals into thoughtfully rendered alternate worlds.

Inside the desperate fight to keep old TVs alive.

U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy published an op-ed in The New York Times calling for a ‘Warning Label on Social Media Platforms.'

He didn’t make a penny.

Experiencing history in Assassin’s Creed.