In another case of digital rights management doing harm to paying customers, a slew of CD-ROM games are being rendered inoperable by a security update in Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8. As ...

Replay: The battlefields of the audio visual world are littered with the corpses of dead formats, none more so than the fight to put moving images on to discs. With the exception of LaserDisc, none of ...

The ScummVM community has just made the early CD-ROM gaming era more accessible. For five years, multiple people have worked on making Macromedia Director games playable on modern hardware, and today, ...

1993: Broderbund Software releases Myst, a game for the Macintosh computer that becomes a record-setting best-seller and the killer app that sparks sales of CD-ROM drives. Brothers Rand and Robyn ...

Handheld Gaming PCs Best handheld gaming PC in 2025: my recommendations for the best portable powerhouses Handheld Gaming PCs We might have a new contender for the best handheld gaming PC, because ...

After over a year of on-and-off tinkering, the “Nintendo PlayStation” is fully operational. The unreleased console — which was formed out of an ill-fated partnership between Nintendo and Sony in the ...

Analogue’s consoles use a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) chip, which can, in simple terms, simulate the original hardware accurately and without software-based emulation. The Analogue Duo, the ...

A new retro games console has been launched on Indiegogo which provides the opportunity to enjoy those old games from CDs which are no longer easy to play on the current range of available gaming ...

In the nearly 18 months since a CD-ROM-based “Nintendo PlayStation” prototype was first found in an estate sale, emulator makers and homebrew programmers have created a facsimile of what CD-based ...

This summer, guests staying at more than 475 Travelodge® hotels throughout the United States and Canada can receive a free interactive computer game along with a chance to win a bowling party From ...