Before PC-based gaming platforms like today’s Portal 2, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Minecraft —-even before disc-based systems like PlayStation, Xbox and Wii and as far back as Pac-Man and Donkey Kong ...

in 1973, a table tennis simulator was launched which would kick-start the video games industry. Louise Hidalgo spoke to Nolan Bushnell, one of the creators of Pong. Show more In 1973, a video game was ...

As I sit down at the computer screen to write this piece, a little person is at my elbow and a little voice is in my ear: "Can I go on it now, Mum?" The little person is my seven-year-old son Tony, ...

It is 40 years since a video game was invented which would change the way we play. An on screen version of table tennis, to begin with Pong was only played in video arcades. But soon a home version ...

Elon Musk has cited the 1970s video game Pong in order to reassert his belief that our perception of reality is in fact a hyper-realistic computer simulation. Responding to a tweet about Pong posted ...