In 1964 30 sixth grade students from Westchester County did something nobody else had ever done before: they learned from a computer game. Today the computer’s usefulness as an educational tool has ...

One of my absolute favorite parts of my personal gaming history is when I discovered the world of PC games. I’m talking about MS-DOS titles, well before Windows was a thing. Before the days of in-app ...

It's time to dust off your sports gear because the late '90s computer game Backyard Sports is making a return. Playground Productions, a production company dedicated to creating family content, ...

Following the success of 1992’s The Muppet Christmas Carol, the next theatrical outing for Jim Henson’s beloved characters ...

It sometimes happens that we want to create a computer game that will be remembered by players and all of humanity forever. But we hit a bit of an impasse at the beginning. We have no idea what kind ...

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When Jared Pincus was only a few years old, his father, Allan Pincus, fixed up an old computer and gave it to him to play with. Allan was mesmerized by young Jared’s ability to latch onto the mouse ...

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