Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Barry Iverson / Getty. The game’s success lies in pushing a gentle-but-distinct nostalgia button for a generation missing the experience of visiting the local ...

Julián F.L. is a video game & anime expert, historian & journalist with a lot of passion for these subjects and over 10 years of experience in writing about them. He has enjoyed video games, anime, ...

On March 5, whoever runs the official X account of the White House went on yet another posting spree—sharing short videos in which footage from the war in Iran was entwined with scenes from sports, ...

Artificial intelligence has swept through the tech industry, video games included. While many industry heads are declaring AI the wave of the future, so far, integrating AI into gaming has had a rough ...

'Retro Rewind,' designed for the PC by indie studio Blood Pact, rents out spoofs of early '90s movies like 'Phantom Patrol,' a send-up of 'Ghostbusters.' By Tony Maglio Samuel Gauthier has a ton of ...

How well do you know the world of Baldur's Gate 3? You can put your expertise to the test with Game World Guesser, a free browser game that takes the idea of ...

The Harlem Globetrotters will release a video game later this year as the legendary team celebrates its centennial season, Acclaim announced on Monday. "Super Basketball Classics Featuring the ...

If you visited the internet in the past two weeks, you probably know about Punch the monkey, the adorable little guy who was abandoned by his mother and shoved by his zoomates, turning to a stuffed ...

A video game centered around convicted child sex offender financier Jeffrey Epstein may have been accessed and played by students in Wake County, school officials confirmed to WRAL Tuesday. The game ...

U.S. physical video game sales in 2025 amounted to roughly $1.5 billion, the lowest “all-time tracked” figure in 30 years, per a report from Circana’s Mat Piscatella. While the figure on its own seems ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. January and February have already proven to be stellar within the realm of video games (layoffs not counting). Now that ...

In 1997 I was 13 and decidedly not a gamer. I liked film, music and Stephen King novels – but I had been “blessed” with two parents who believed video games rotted your brain. They did, however, ...