Pinball Factory is an intriguing look at one possible path for wireless gaming development. While the ability to create your own tables offers a glimpse into the future--one ripe with potential--its ...

You know that vintage pinball machine at your favorite arcade? Odds are that the machine was designed and meticulously assembled, piece by piece, at Stern Pinball's brand new factory, in suburban ...

Just when you thought pinball was dead... well, it's still pretty much dead. The New York Times reports on Stern Pinball Inc., the last pinball factory in the world, and profiles its president, Gary ...

Due west of O’Hare International Airport, there is a neighborhood — formally, part of Elk Grove Village — that isn’t much of a neighborhood. It’s warehouses, drab gray offices. It’s Gertrude Stein’s ...

For our latest issue, Ryan Smith delved into the seedy history of pinball and the champion player Roger Sharpe, who helped lift the ban on the game while his sons are leading today’s renaissance. We ...

Did you know that there’s only one manufacturer of pinball machines left in the world? That sole survivor of the pinball age is Stern Pinball, based outside of Chicago, and it’s the last purveyor of ...