Fans of “Ms. Pac-Man” have a nearly infinite number of new levels to try today: Google Maps’ mobile app currently offers a feature that overlays the video game on its city street maps. The April Fools ...

The latest Google Doodle is a playable Pac-Man game that puts a spooky-cute spin on the game's classic arcade aesthetic. Pac-Man himself is donning a pixelated purple witch hat (though he also has ...

This past Saturday, April 1 st, Google pulled their annual April Fools’ Day stunts, one of which has turned into a worldwide phenomenon: Ms. Pac-Man overlaid on top of Google Maps. I spent the better ...

Is Google’s pellet-gobbling Pac-Man arcade tribute without the quarter-gobbling arcade damper a menace to office productivity? Did conjuring Google’s homepage last week set you involuntarily ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...