GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The Video Game History Foundation has finally found the developer of Wabbit, which is believed to be the first console game to feature a playable ...

Freelance writer who enjoys overanalyzing games. If she's not gaming, she's probably tending to her drama queen of a dog. Other times, she's studying for her Master's Degree in Comparative Literature.

After nearly 40 years away from the games industry, Van Mai, the pioneering woman who wrote on Atari 2600's Wabbit and helped create the first console game to star a human girl, has been found. As ...

After a year-long search, historians have tracked down and interviewed Van Mai, the woman who programmed Wabbit for Atari 2600, notable for being the first console game with a playable female ...

Video game historian Kevin Bunch remembers sending a dozen letters over the mail in 2019, each one addressed to the same name. The white envelopes journeyed across different addresses in Texas, some ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized ...