A museum dedicated to the history of home video games and computers is taking shape in Penn Hills. In mid-February, Brendan Becker opened the first rooms of his Bloop Museum in the township’s former ...

Brain Cells To Play Video Game Pong: In 2022, Australian biotech company Cortical Labs connected 800,000 brain cells in a petri dish to a computer and taught them to play the 1970s game Pong. Now, ...

Just as ancient cultures have founding myths, so does today’s multibillion-dollar global video game industry. The first titan of video games was Atari, which, in the early 1980s, put their 2600 video ...

In 1982, the North American video game market looked invincible. Home console revenues had climbed to $3.2 billion that year, and the Atari 2600 was installed in millions of homes. The 1980 port of ...

"If the neurons fire in a specific pattern, the Doom guy shoots." The post Researchers Get Human Brain Cells Running Doom ...

A biocomputer powered by lab-grown human brain cells has leveled up from Pong to Doom. While nowhere ready to handle the video game shooter’s most challenging levels, researchers at Cortical Labs in ...

The 80s were the breeding ground for a host of electronics -- many of which failed to garner attention. Some of these have now become collectors' favorites.

Commercial software can’t keep pace with experimental precision when it comes to large-scale computer-algebra calculations in ...

How many brain cells does it take to play a game of Doom?

A computer platform that runs on human neurons (and recently showed off said neurons’ ability to play DOOM) now wants in on the data center boom. Australia-based Cortical Labs announced today that it ...

The decision to use lethal force is the most somber responsibility a government holds. To frame these events using video game aesthetics treats the Middle East as a sandbox for a summer blockbuster.

The National Videogame Museum sits in Frisco, Texas, like a time capsule that someone forgot to bury. This place isn’t just about looking at old games behind glass like they’re ancient artifacts, ...