On the Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: When Pac-Man first made its way into arcades back in 1980, it took the gaming industry by storm. Chris Morris, an independent journalist ...

A simple circle colored yellow with a piece taken out, and four colored “ghosts,” sparked a cultural phenomenon in 1980 that remains 45 years later. Even if you’ve never played PAC-MAN, the ...

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 ...

2022's Pac-Man World Re-Pac rebuilt the 1999 PS1 classic from the ground up and cleaned up a lot of the original game's rough edgeswhile delivering graphics that went far beyond even what was imagined ...