Video Game Hall of Fame inducts ‘Tomb Raider’ and ‘Final Fantasy VII’

The Strong museum has announced this year's inductees to the World Video Game Hall of Fame -- Spacewar!, John Madden Football, Tomb Raider and Final Fantasy VII. They were selected from 12 finalists that also included Asteroids, Call of Duty, Dance D...

The educational games of your youth have their own museum exhibit

The Minnesota Education Computing Corporation might not be the most recognizable game developer today, but if you went to elementary school in the US anytime in the eighties or nineties, then you've almost certainly played -- and probably learned som...

The Video Game Hall of Fame basically inducted your childhood this year

The National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York announced the four titles it's inducting into the World Video Game Hall of Fame this year, and they're all pinnacles in the industry: Donkey Kong, Halo: Combat Evolved, Pokémon Red and Blue an...

The Strong Museum’s latest addition digs deep into gaming history

Video games are a unique, nascent art form and it makes sense to preserve them. While efforts by the Internet Archive have been underway for a while, it hasn't been a priority for the gaming industry to archive their own products. Most archival proje...

The Strong Museum will open a ‘Women in Games’ exhibit in 2018

"Women have indelibly shaped every aspect of the history of video games, and that story needs to be better documented and told." That's Jon-Paul Dyson, director of the International Center for the History of Electronic Games at The Strong museum in...