With the PlayStation Classic's reveal earlier this week came the confirmation of five of the 20 games to be included in the nostalgic console, as well as what players would be getting for the $99.99 price point. Still, some questions lingered about functionality for the system, and how it might differ from what we've seen in Nintendo's NES and SNES Classic mini consoles. Speaking to IGN via email, a PlayStation spokesperson confirmed that, similarly to those consoles, the initial launch lineup will be the full catalogue for the PlayStation Classic.

Making a Metroidvania is an enormous design challenge. How do you let a player loose in an interconnected world, without them becoming lost or frustrated?

Nintendo has reportedly filed a lawsuit at the federal court in the US state of Arizona earlier this week, with the publisher calling out two ROM and emulator websites - allegedly owned by the same Arizona-based company - for unfair competition as well as copyright and trademark infringement. Nintendo is requesting statutory damages of $150,000 per infringement, and up to $2,000,000 for each trademark infringement. According to the source, this could theoretically equate to $100 million in damages.

John Romero has just congratulated Doom guru Zero Master on discovering the last hidden secret of Doom II, some 24 years after it was released. A secret that had previously been thought impossible to actually find. Prepare to put your Doom Pedantry Hat on for this one, because the secret has been known, and considered a bug.

Nintendo is celebrating what is arguably one of its greatest years in the company’s history and so what better way to celebrate Goomba Stomp’s Two Year anniversary than with a list of our 200 favourite games released exclusively on a Nintendo console.

Back in 1973, Steve Miller Band’s “The Joker” was blaring from the PA in a California warehouse as two dozen women in flared jeans assembled Pong circuit boards. The smell of corned beef and marijuana wafted down the manufacturing line. Orders for Atari’s landmark table tennis video game were still pouring in on the crisp October day when Elaine Shirley first giddily entered the warehouse to join the all-woman crew of Pong cabinet-stuffers.

There's arguably never been a better time to play older games. Companies like Nintendo and Sega are reconnecting players with their heritage via products such as the SNES Classic Edition and the smartphone-based Sega Forever range, while a flood of third-party companies like Analogue, Hyperkin, Retro-Bit and AtGames are manufacturing clone systems which offer a means of playing original cartridges with creature comforts such as HD output...

AI research and video games are a match made in heaven. Researchers get a ready-made virtual environment with predefined goals they can control completely, and the AI agent gets to romp around without doing any damage. Sometimes, though, they do break things. Case in point is a paper published this week by a trio of machine learning researchers from the University of Freiburg in Germany. They were exploring a particular method of teaching AI agents to navigate video games (in this case, desktop ports of old Atari titles from the 1980s) when they discovered something odd. The software they were testing discovered a bug in the port of the retr

We sat down with Ed Fries, former Microsoft Game Studio Vice President, in his personal arcade workshop to ask why anyone would make a homebrew demake of Halo for the Atari 2600.

Julian Turner, a collector of retro video games, went to a market earlier this month and bought some old NES games. When he got home, he discovered that he’d got more than he paid for: two of the cartridges were packed with illegal drugs.

There's a new SNES game - yep, you read that right, a new SNES game - that's designed to raise awareness about development crunch.

We're right on the cusp of another generation of game consoles, and whether you're an Xbox One fanperson or a PlayStation 4 zealot you probably know what's coming if you've been through a few of these cycles. The systems will launch in time for the holidays, each will have one or two decent launch titles, there will be perhaps a year or two when the new console and the old console coexist on store shelves, and then the "next generation" becomes the current generation...

In early 1995, I remember reading a letter in a video game magazine that talked about how much momentum Nintendo had with the upcoming Ultra 64 console and the futuristic Virtual Boy. When it launched, the Nintendo 64 (its final name) did fine — although it didn’t beat the new PlayStation system from Sony. The Virtual Boy, however, was an unmitigated disaster.

Strictly Limited Games has announced that they will release the Metroidvania action-platformer Hardcore for PS Vita and PS4 in 2019 both physically and digitally. Originally developed by Digital Illusions (also known as DICE) for Commodore Amiga, Sega Genesis and Sega Mega-CD, Hardcore was about 99% finished but the game was never released due to a shift towards the next generation consoles, most notably the more powerful Sony PlayStation with its incredible 3D graphics.

Earlier this year, reader Ilhan Ünal got started building his own Game Boy, which he only recently completed. It’s...a little bigger than Nintendo’s original version.

Dynamite Entertainment And Atari Join Forces For New Comic Projects - A new deal will see Dynamite creating new comics and graphic novels based on Atari properties as well as reprint old stories.

Old school "Snake" from the same developers makes a return on phones with updated graphics

Giant Bomb plays some old games. Games played: Awesome Possum, Michael Jackson's Moonwalker and Battletoads Double Dragon.

Brave Wave Productions is bringing the original Street Fighter II arcade soundtrack to vinyl and CD featuring remasters of the CPS-1 and CPS-2 hardware versions of the music. Scroll down their page a bit to see the cover art and more information.

One of my favorite lets play groups on YouTube, Game Grumps, play the NES version of Metal Gear on their GrumpCade show with special guest ProJared.

Over the past four decades the home video gaming market has gone from zero, to hero - adding eleven zeros in fact as global revenue for the industry is now approaching $100 billion. It’s been a crazy 

Byuu, the creator of low-level SNES emulator bsnes, explains the importance of accuracy in emulation.

Ah, the Amiga. Dear readers of a certain age will remember it well. I was a little late to the party; when I think of Amiga I think of my Amiga 1200 and swa…

Officially licensed wall clock recalls original PAC-MAN arcade console with authentic logos, art. Lights up, plays music and sound effects each hour.

As part of the Hot Wheels Pop Culture line of cars, Mattel is releasing a line of Hot Wheels cars featuring art from iconic Mario games from Nintendo. Super Mario Brothers 1, 2, and 3, Dr. Mario, Super Mario World, and Super Mario Kart will be represented in this set of die cast cars. IGN is reporting that they will be released in October of this year.

Mario's entering a whole new galaxy.

It's a fun short video by PixelNation, about Lemmings (from the Amiga game) trying to reach the end of a level, which is PixelNation's desk. Enjoy! :)

Recently, a video by twitch user DOTA_TeaBag was brought to my attention, in which he did an upwarp in Tick Tock Clock. I believe this is a new, unexplored glitch, but unfortunately I have been unsuccessful at recreating it myself. Thus, I'm putting a bounty of $1000 on the glitch. In other words, the first person to recreate the glitch and send it to me will earn $1000 from me.

The Retro Fighters NES controller is a next-generation 8-bit gamepad that utilizes modern design and compatible with NES, PC & MAC.

After 6 months of hard work we are pleased to announce the release of RetroPie 3.0. This retro-gaming project brings together a collection of popular emulators for those computers and consoles that you grew up with from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s, all wrapped up and ready to run on the famous Raspberry Pi. From Atari 2600, to Sega Mega Drive to Sony PlayStation, all your favourite systems are covered. What are you waiting for – get playing!

The world is weightless, a black abyss we disguise behind shades of blue and brick. But when the paint washes off, you see this strange land for what it is: a place without death because no actual life inhabits it, a blackhole without meaning beyond the veneer we coat it in. You go right, not out of any real desire to, but because turning left would only get you further away from the end, where the promise of nothingness awaits. You take a drag from the cigarette clutched between your...

In part 1, I cover the limitations of color on older 1980's computers and game consoles such as the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Commodore 64.

Mariooooo Kaarrrtttt Skaaaaaatte!!!

Seems like it forgot two key IPs..., Konami. Everyone’s favourite publisher Konami has released a “heritage game survey”, asking players about some of its IPs (as seen...

In this episode I cover Apple II and Atari 2600 graphics modes.