Video games are still a young medium in the grand scheme of things, but have been around for well over 50 years now. After the arcade boom in the 70s, home consoles slowly took over the gaming ...

Connor is a writer on Game Rant. Hailing from the east coast of Scotland, with experience in the development and retail spaces of the industry, he uses his passion for games and Scottish charm to ...

The Video Information System was a set-top box with a massive $699 sticker price that ran a bespoke version of Windows on a 16MHz processor. Unfortunately, the chip market had completely surpassed ...

The 1990s were a transitional time for video games, marked by rapid evolution in both technology and design. This era began with the dominance of the NES and the Sega Genesis, systems that carried ...

For the longest time, video games were primarily produced for consoles, whose relatively simplistic hardware allowed developers to better optimize their games for those systems. Consoles let games ...

Compared to other forms of entertainment, the gaming industry is still quite young. After all, the first video games didn't emerge until the 1970s. That also means there is more than half a century of ...

With gaming on the rise over the last few years, more and more people are buying their first video game consoles or returning to gaming after years away from sitting on a couch, firing up a game, ...

The video game industry has come a long way in just 50 years. From crude pixelated animations to photorealistic imagery, the likes of Nintendo and Sony have altered the way many people choose to spend ...

Tom Bowen is a senior editor who loves adventure games and RPGs. He's been playing video games for several decades now and writing about them professionally since 2020. Although he dabbles in news and ...

Video game consoles are fun. We all have our favorites, mostly dictated by our memories of the plastic boxes we spent our childhood with, but the legacy of some consoles transcends generations, and ...