The amazing, little-known backstory of the most popular arcade game in U.S. history.

It's hard to believe that Pokémon has been with us for the last 20 years now. On February 27th, 1996, a pair of Game Boy games called Pocket Monsters Red and Pocket Monsters Green made their debut in Japan.

"We were going to make the next 'Mario,'" say creators of PlayStation's enduring mascot game.

The story behind the "Halo" franchise as it's never been told--by the key individuals that made it.

We talked to the nerds (including the hawk man himself) behind the most iconic skateboarding video game series of all time.

An insiders' oral history of the videogame, from the birth of the Brown Box to the arrival of the Xbox.

Fifteen years ago this week, Ion Storm Austin released its debut game Deus Ex. The first-person cyberpunk game would go on to garner long-standing critical acclaim, become a high-water mark in the careers of game makers like Warren Spector and Harvey Smith, inspire a generation of developers, and cement the "immersive sim" genre of game design.

The three weeks out of every month that Shuhei Yoshida's in Japan, he has the same routine every day. He wakes up, opens a tablet, and gets back to work on PlayStation consumer feedback via his favorite interaction tool: Twitter. The man who heads Sony's PlayStation group is incredibly, perhaps detrimentally, accessible on social media.

How Michael Jackson, Mattel, and the Japanese mafia influenced the ahead-of-its-time NES accessory.

An inside look at the creation and fallout of Square's industry-defining role-playing game, as told by those who were there.

You must always caulk the wagon. Never ford the river.

The Elitist Jerks turned being good at 'World of Warcraft' into a science.

An oral history of the game before the game inside the game.

How a lousy football gamebirthed a bastard and led to the greatest hockey game of all-time.

Tetsuya Mizuguchi, founder and CEO of Enhance Games and a former game director at Sega, recounted his creative journey toward creating his ground breaking 2001 rhythm game "Rez" at GDC 2016 today. The game, which will re-release later this year as a PlayStation VR launch title, "Rez Infinite," was one of the defining games for the Sega Dreamcast and Sony PlayStation 2.

Booger Hunt. George Lucas avoiding tax penalties. "Monkey Island" and dependency charts. "The Lost Patrol." A file drawer full of crazy ideas. This is the story about life at Lucasfilm Games -- as told by the people who lived it.

Sleek, black, and mysterious, the Net Yaroze was the shadow-twin of the original Playstation console. This trimmed-down dev kit allowed neophyte developers to write Playstation games using tools similar to the ones used by professionals. The developers on the Net Yaroze were the vanguard of console indie development as we recognize it today.

Fifteen years after its original release, the creators of Diablo II recount the battles with Blizzard, the year of crunch, and the shower ideas that became some of roleplaying's most enduring pillars.

An inside look at the creation and fallout of Capcom's industry-defining fighting game, as told by those who were there.

Back in May, Halo 2600 developer and former Xbox executive Ed Fries spoke at length about his history and his work at Microsoft as part of the Computer History Museum's ongoing series of "Oral History" interviews with notable figures in the tech industry.

How a forgotten company’s 1970s technical breakthrough launched a billion-dollar business and helped spawn a new creative medium.