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Out today is a new video game within the Pac-Man universe. It's called Shadow Labyrinth. It's very different than the pellet chomping arcade game that once dominated arcades. "Pac-Man," the classic ...

Born 40 years ago, the hungry little critter turned women and children into gamers, changing the industry forever Michelle Delgado - Contributing Writer Pac-Man became one of the first video games to ...

Stephen is an avid Nintendo, Indie, and retro gamer of 30 years who dabbles in Xbox, mainly in the form of binge sessions of Overwatch. He's a history buff, an aspiring writer of short fiction, and a ...

There's a moment about 20 minutes into Shadow Labyrinth, a new video game that takes place within the Pac-Man universe, that sets the tone for what's to come. Pac-Man, here called Puck, sheds its ...

Pac-Man's iconic yellow pie-shaped chomper turns 45 today. The game was officially released on May 22, 1980 in Japanese arcades before launching in the United States in October 1980, according to the ...

Due to an ongoing dispute over the rights to the character, Ms. Pac-Man has been removed from a re-release of Pac-Land—and replaced, in what looks like a permanent switch, with a new character called ...

At GDC 2016, I had a chance to sit down and talk with Steve Golson, one of the original designers of Ms. Pac-Man. Between his presentation and our subsequent interview and Let's Play, Steve shared a ...

Ambitious kart racer Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is just around the corner, but Sonic Team’s franchise won’t be the only one in the limelight, as a certain yellow peril’s 45th anniversary celebrations ...

Born in the 8-bit era, raised by the 16-bit era, and perfected by the 32-bit era, Cory's roots grew from the likes Sonic the Hedgehog and Mega Man to the world of Resident Evil and Castlevania. Owning ...

Nostalgia for so-called “retro games” has been kicking around since the late ’90s, so it might seem shocking that the best-selling home video game for much of the 1980s didn’t get an official ...

Krispy Kreme announced Monday a collaboration with Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc. that celebrates the 45th anniversary of Pac-Man with a new doughnut collection inspired by the iconic game.