What's the Best Way to Play Retro Games?
WIRED · 7 minShould you buy a virtual console, find old-school hardware from your childhood, or dip your toes into emulators? We can help.
Should you buy a virtual console, find old-school hardware from your childhood, or dip your toes into emulators? We can help.
Only in the digital realm of video games are people given the opportunity to act as they never would in daily life or as they would act every day in an ideal world ... and then try again if they don’t like the results.
For people who have struggled with problematic gaming for years, the boredom and uncertainty of the pandemic has forced them to confront their addiction anew.
How the pandemic, social unrest, and labor relations have shaped board games and RPGs.
The video game was just valued at a staggering $45 billion. It's also been a lifeline for my children since the start of lockdown.
At this stage in the pandemic, you may have started to question the amount of time you’re spending playing video games.
Video game subscriptions are all the rage. Or, maybe that's not quite right. It looks like video game subscriptions will be all the rage, in the not too distant future, if things carry on in the direction they're going right now.
A first-of-its-kind study from Oxford University has investigated the relationship between well-being and time spent playing video games using novel industry data from two popular video games. The surprising findings revealed a small correlation between longer play-times and positive well-being.
After years of development and delays, Super Nintendo World finally opened this week at Universal Studios Japan (USJ) in Osaka. The themed area of the park is Nintendo’s biggest swing yet to leverage its most iconic characters beyond their traditional home of video game consoles.
Fall Guys had only been online for two days when it started.
Let the good times roll, as old-school tabletop R.P.G.s have taken off online. Recently, a wizard, a druid, a cleric, a ranger, an artificer and a couple of bards met on Zoom. The bards fought. The druid baked cookies. The cleric, wearing nifty resin dragon horns, took hallucinogenic mushrooms.
Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. has made a major pivot on the next game in the popular Dragon Age series, allowing the developers to remove all planned multiplayer components from the game, according to people familiar with the matter.
Fantasian has everything you’d expect from a new Hironobu Sakaguchi experience. The creator of the Final Fantasy series is once again making a roleplaying game that takes place in a lush fantasy world, features turn-based combat, and centers on a globe-spanning quest.
The concept of the video game character-select screen dates back more than 40 years, to a period directly after Dungeons & Dragons pioneered a new type of tabletop role-playing game.
There is an extraordinary and telling moment in Raven Leilani’s acclaimed novel Luster, about a young black woman who has an affair with a middle-aged white man and ends up living with his family.
Last July, Take-Two announced that NBA 2K21 would be the first game to ask $70 for the standard edition on "next-generation" systems (i.e., PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X).
Mobile games are great at keeping us distracted for awkward cracks of time in our schedule, from commutes, to waiting in line for seats at a restaurant, to the few conscious minutes before we finally doze off in bed.
When identical twins Ben and Matt Horton began making serious money from creating video games, their parents couldn't believe it. His brother Matt adds: "It was a significant amount of money. They thought we were doing shady stuff online."
In the Guide’s weekly Solved! column, we look into a crucial pop-culture question you’ve been burning to know the answer to – and settle it, once and for all Last year, something terrible happened. No, not that.
When most people think of preserving video game history, they probably imagine a museum full of boxed consoles and cartridges, or maybe a massive, digital database of emulatable ROM files ripped from the original physical media.
The Super Mario 35th anniversary items are live in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and while many of the additions are swell, one item is a total game changer.