An interesting account of console history, this article covers the recent history of game consoles from 2000 up to 2011, otherwise the present day. As such, all the noteworthy consoles of the period from the PlayStation 2 up to the Nintendo Wii are included.
This article covers the history of PC games from 2000 up to the present, and examines the biggest trends throughout the decade. This includes the FPS revolution, the rise of 3D, the rebirth of adventure games and the birth of the Havok physics engine. Read more below to see these historic changes.
Few gamers are as old as video games themselves, which are actually a post-War development. A brief look at the history of video games will take us from the labs of electronics pioneers, to smoky arcades, to your living room, and finally, onto the web and around the world.
Today marks the anniversary of the publication of “Rape in Cyberspace," the most cited articles ever written about cyberspace. Read more in “This Day in Video Game History”, a chronology of notable business, film, game, & media events in and related to the video game industry on this day in history.