Video game consoles are fun. We all have our favorites, mostly dictated by our memories of the plastic boxes we spent our childhood with, but the legacy of some consoles transcends generations, and ...

Video games are still a young medium in the grand scheme of things, but have been around for well over 50 years now. After the arcade boom in the 70s, home consoles slowly took over the gaming ...

Sony's PlayStation series began in 1994 as an offshoot of a failed project to develop a CD-ROM add-on for Nintendo's SNES. In the three decades since, the PlayStation gaming brand has remained ...

The next-gen Xbox will reportedly be a PC with a "TV-friendly shell." This hardware design shift could significantly simplify game development for the next generation of Xbox consoles. The Xbox Series ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

Custom soundtracks let you personalize in-game audio by adding your own songs. Plenty of original Xbox games support custom soundtracks, but recent consoles are much more restrictive. Some current-gen ...

Microsoft launched Ultimate in 2019 at $15 a month, raised the price to $17 a month in 2023 and then to $20 a month in 2024.

Higuchi says his "boss at the time was a huge Nintendo fan, so he kept pushing us towards the Virtual Boy. But I knew the PlayStation was much better." History would, of course, bear Higuchi's ...

Being able to access your games anywhere has been a big mission statement for Xbox over the last few years. The team at Xbox has been working hard to tear down the walls that separate console, PC, and ...

The venerable video game company Atari is offering preorders for a new console it previewed earlier this year: the Gamestation Go, which will be released in October for $180 (plus $8 shipping). On its ...