Looking back, it's hard to believe that we started off with stamp-sized videos and horribly pixelated 15s "multimedia" segments shoehorned into whatever version of Encarta or the Encyclopedia ...

Although the passage of time serves to make the past seem sweeter in recollection than it might have been in the moment, it’s impossible to deny that there was something special about the gaming ...

Why it matters: Myst is arguably one of the most influential PC games in history. For nearly a decade, it held the record as the best-selling computer game of all time, and rightfully so. The title ...

At the time, it was the CD-ROM that had captured the imagination of consumers and the entire publishing industry. The high-capacity optical discs enabled mass distribution of multimedia for the first ...

Just a few days ago, as Hurricane Florence approached my home in North Carolina, I popped a disc into my 1990s Atari Jaguar CD gaming console. A familiar animated logo popped onto the screen, and I ...

A new virtual reality version of Myst will be released for Oculus Quest later this year. The original Myst was the #1 best-selling video game in the world from 1993 to 2002, a “killer app” that ...

I have listened to Myst creator Rand Miller tell the tale of how he and his brother Robyn squeezed their 3D puzzling masterpiece onto a tiny CD-Rom back in 1993 many, many times and it always leaves ...

Variety reports that Legendary Entertainment, the production company behind such films as Godzilla and Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, has struck a deal to develop the 1993 adventure game Myst ...

A fully 3D version of "Myst," dubbed "Myst Mobile," is getting an iPhone and iPad release. Created 30 years ago, the legendary puzzle game Myst was a commercial success and even helped accelerate the ...