In 1964 30 sixth grade students from Westchester County did something nobody else had ever done before: they learned from a computer game. Today the computer’s usefulness as an educational tool has ...

It's time to dust off your sports gear because the late '90s computer game Backyard Sports is making a return. Playground Productions, a production company dedicated to creating family content, ...

When Jared Pincus was only a few years old, his father, Allan Pincus, fixed up an old computer and gave it to him to play with. Allan was mesmerized by young Jared’s ability to latch onto the mouse ...

Everyone makes mistakes—and sometimes those mistakes can lead to surprising discoveries. In the early 1990s, while programming the computer game Doom, game developer John Carmack set the value of pi ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NORTHFIELD, Minn. — "The Oregon Trail," one of the most successful computer games of all time and a staple for children of the ...