The gaming industry is in mourning this week following the news that one of its founding fathers, Ralph H Baer, has passed away at the age of 92. Baer was a true pioneer of the medium, responsible for ...

Oh man, the iFixit crew just hopped up another step on the Stairway to Awesome. They have opened up and explored a Magnavox Odyssey 100, successor to the world's first home games-console. Kyle Wiens ...

What was the first video game console? If you said the Atari 2600, you would be wrong, but we’d forgive you. After all, the Atari was early and widely sold. It also had the major features you expect ...

There have been nine home console generations since the first started in 1972, and each offered its own innovations.

Fanboy rage isn't new; the console wars have been raging for forty years. We look back over the history of the industry and ask: who won? This is part one of a series, covering the earliest skirmishes ...

7 Classic Game Consoles Built Into TV Sets These console-display hybrids never took off, but that didn't stop companies from trying the idea over and over again between 1976 and 2010.