Discovering early Activision history in the William Volk papers

Dig into the early production history of Activision in this new digital collection from former Activision vice president William Volk.

23 years of Music and Gaming

Our new library collection celebrates the origins of the community-run Music and Gaming Festival.

VGHF acquires early game magazine Computer Entertainer

The magazine, which ran from 1982–1990, has been released into the Creative Commons for anyone to use.

It’s Trade Magazine Week!

Nearly 400 historical industry-only magazines, now available in our digital library.

Introducing the Craig Stitt papers

Presenting our newest library collection from Sega and Insomniac artist Craig Stitt.

Library Highlight: The unseen history of Myst

Watch over 100 hours of archival footage from the making of the revolutionary computer game series Myst.

Library Highlight: GDC proceedings books

4500 pages of historical game dev talks, available to read for free in our digital library.

VGHF at GDC 2025

We’re back this year at the 2025 Game Developers Conference! Here’s a preview of everywhere you can find us this week… The Game History Gallery returns We’re back running our Game History Gallery booth! This year, we’re celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Nintendo Entertainment System with our exhibit Lost Levels: Unreleased Games for the Nintendo…

The VGHF Library opens in early access

For free. For everyone. Wherever you are.

Our 2024 in review

A year of progress and preparing for the future.