History articles

#TBT A journey through memorable video game music, this second article is dedicated exclusively to PC video game soundtracks. We have our hands full given the wealth of excellent material available.

It's been four years since AMD launched RDNA, the successor to the venerable GCN graphics architecture. We take a look through the tech and numbers to see just how successful it's been.

At the turn of the millennium, Yahoo! was the most visited site on the web. In Web 1.0 terms, Yahoo! was like Google and Facebook combined. So what happened?

Few things are as closely associated with PC gaming as Steam. Microsoft might provide the OS. Intel, AMD, and Nvidia power the most popular gaming hardware. But for most people, Steam is PC gaming.

With an increasing number of people spending more of their hard-earned money on the latest tech and services, games expanded into new arenas. History showed once more, new tech paved the way for new opportunities.

#TBT These days it's rare to see a new hardware company break ground in the world of PCs, but 30 years ago, they were popping up all over the place. Join us as we pay tribute to S3 and see how its remarkable story unfolded over the years.

The days when GPUs were only used for graphics rendering in games are long gone. Join us as we look at how the processor became the dominant chip in compute and AI.

Over the last 30 years, the PC has utterly transformed in appearance, capability, and usage. From the hulking beige boxes to an astonishing array of powerful, colorful, and astonishing computers.

The story of ATI Technologies is a fascinating journey, full of trials and tribulations, and with an unusual twist at the end. Here's our tribute to the graphics card giant.

Few games have captured gamers minds and free time quite like Civilization. From its humble beginnings as a turn-based strategy game to an expansive, complex empire builder, this is how Civilization has progressed over the past 30 years.

Few video game characters have become more famous than the games that featured them. Lara Croft and Tomb Raider have contributed much to gaming, helping define the action-adventure genre the way we know it today.

While chiplets have been in use for decades, today they are the hottest trend in processor tech and at the cutting edge of technology, with millions of people worldwide using them in desktop PCs, workstations, and servers.

From the mid-90s to the early years of the millennium, video games underwent a paradigm shift in graphics, treating us to some of the most classic titles of all time.