This year marks an almost forgotten 40th anniversary: the conception of the device that ultimately became the PC. And no, it did not happen in California. But the full story was not that simple. For ...

One of my absolute favorite parts of my personal gaming history is when I discovered the world of PC games. I’m talking about ...

Hard disk drives sure have come a long way, baby. In the 1950s, storage hardware was measured in feet — and in tons. Back then, the era’s state-of-the-art computer drive was found in IBM’s RAMAC 305; ...

Many people know Philadelphia is home to the world’s first all-electronic, programmable computer. The ENIAC — for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer — was developed at the University of ...

Before New Vegas, before Bethesda, before the Capital Wasteland, there was Fallout, the upstart 1997 RPG from Interplay. Initially worked on by a solitary programmer, the legendary Tim Cain, Fallout ...

A brief timeline of pcgamer.com's journey from "web site" to "website." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As of this month, we've ...