Console yourself with gaming having moved on from 1985 with these 5 nostalgia-fuelled retro handhelds ...

Here’s something fun from our hacker [Piers]: Software Defined ROMs. In this series of three videos, [Piers] runs us through what a software defined ROM is, how to make them, and then how to use them.

Retro emulation gadgets, the ones that look like an alternate universe version of a Game Boy Advance, are enormously popular. They’re cheap, portable, and capable of running pretty much any console ...

Downloading retro games can be a point of tension in the gaming community. Many people say downloading ROMs under any circumstances should be illegal, while others say downloading games that are no ...

Nintendo has had enough of pirates and the websites that enable them, like EmuParadise. After shutting down a handful of sites and a Game Boy Advance emulator on GitHub in July, the publisher has ...

EmuParadise has removed all download links to game ROM files from its website. The move comes after Nintendo filed a lawsuit against other ROM-hosting websites seeking millions of dollars in damages.

There’s no shortage of handheld gaming devices capable of running Nintendo games… but most of them do that thanks to an emulator and ROMs that you download from shady areas of the internet. I mean, ...

Want to play some classic console video games, but having a hard time getting your hands on an SNES Classic? There’s no shortage of ways to emulate classic game systems on a PC. You can even turn a ...

The emulation of retro games is great, but not everyone can enjoy some titles due to language restrictions. You see, some games were released in one country, for example, Japan, but never made it to ...

With a £34 mini computer and an emulator, gaming’s entire back catalogue opens up to you to play. But there are important points to consider – not least questions of legality In the past, whenever I ...

It is okay to admit that smartphone emulators are hard to control via the touchscreen, and now, 8BitDo has an answer for that ...

I am sorry, boo-hoo cry me a river. I just can’t get upset over a bunch of rich guys with a warehouse full of arcade games having a single ROM dumped. If they could they would hold onto those arcade ...