You have it way easier these days, but back in the day, when you wanted to play a game on your PC, you had to take a similar approach to consoles. Go to a physical store, get a disc, then pop it into ...

ScummVM, the popular program for playing old-school adventure games, is getting a huge new update that adds support for more than 160 games made with the World Builder engine. This is a pretty big ...

Palmer Luckey, the man who took a career crafting VR headsets and turned it into a company that sells weapons of war to the U.S. military, also makes a Game Boy-like handheld. The ModRetro Chromatic, ...

Any retro-loving gamer knows it’s next to impossible to legally play most titles from the past 50 years of gaming history. This is where game emulation—essentially recreations of an old console’s ...

I don’t mean “oh you can play old games on your phone”, everyone knows that. I mean playing old games using an actual floppy disk drive. This video by LGR shows how its done, using a phone’s USB port ...

Retro gaming is easier than ever, with emulators and mini consoles abound. But there’s something lost in the translation of these classic games, which is why the SuperStation One should be so exciting ...

Forgotten Gems is a column about notable games that have moved out of the public eye and may not be easily accessible anymore. To see all the other games I've covered so far, check out the previous ...

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As Xbox continues to support classic titles, Microsoft shares a vague promise about something coming this year.