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.

Is this the first Nintendo commercial?

Instead of the Game & Watch, the US got the Mego Time-Out. We recovered the original commercial.

Digitizing Behind-the-Scenes Content From the Creators of Myst!

We’re working with Cyan to preserve their entire video archive!

The prototypes in Ed Semrad’s basement

When you’re editor-in-chief of EGM, you get a lot of games in the mail.