Briefly: The "father of video games'" home office is now on display at The National Museum Of American History. The museum rebuilt (actually rebuilt, not recreated) Ralph Baer's workshop as a "landmark" for its new innovation wing. Check it out if you're in the Washington DC area!
The UK's video games industry body Tiga has called for the products to be treated like other creative industries such as television or film, rather than mere "software". There is a good argument for this.
Facing mounting financial pressure, the Danish museum Spilmuseet ("The Games Museum") is about to jettison a massive collection of classic video games and related hardware. And with nobody opening their doors yet, all these refugees of console wars past are still in need of a new home.
