For the first few decades of the NFL, the league avoided Christmas games. That changed in 1971. Here's a look at the first ...

While there might be dozens of bowl games, post-season bowl games started with one. Slowly, more bowl games came about. Here ...

Anyone who's taken Latin (or Latin-adjacent subjects like philosophy and logic) in an American college in the past 156 years knows that ex nihilo nihil fit—nothing comes from nothing. Fans watching ...

It’s the end of an era. The Buffalo Bills will play their final regular season home game at Highmark Stadium on Sunday, ...

There is a first time for everything. That was the case about 404 years ago when the first Thanksgiving took place in Plymouth, Massachusetts. There was no luxury of modern technology, no oven to cook ...

Anyone who knows anything about the first games ever made won’t be surprised to hear that Tennis for Two is a supremely simple game. It was invented by American physicist William Higinbotham in 1958, ...

Long before video games became something you downloaded or streamed, they existed as curiosities built by scientists who ...

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Joshua grew up in poverty, deep in the Middle of Nowhere, Alabama. Gaming was a rarely afforded escape from reality that persisted throughout his life, something that saw him through good times and ...

The computer role-playing game, most widely known as the RPG, turns 50 today! Well, as close as we can pin it, anyway. Happy birthday, RPGs! In 1974, the year Dungeons & Dragons began publication, a ...