“Continue?” It’s one of the oldest words in video games. You stumble. You put in another quarter. You try again. Hey, you’ll get ‘em next time. Never has that sentiment been more true than in 2025 — ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mike Stubbs covers esports, competitive games and the creator economy. Games are revolutionized in every decade, and 2000s games ...

CU Boulder scientists find that playing video games comes with small but significant cognitive benefits Ever since video games began to gain widespread popularity, some have questioned how playing ...

I'm trying to understand why Xeno Crisis (#1011) will only boot with Rosalie's Mupen GUI (v0.7.9), but it will always crash with Mupen64plus (v2.6.0) or even the libretro core. I've tried using LLE ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mike Stubbs covers esports, competitive games and the creator economy. Considering the rise of home consoles that we saw within ...

I'm getting really bad frame rates on Goldeneye and Perfect Dark - I'd say 5-10 FPS in combat, dropping down to 2-4 FPS when there are visual effects (getting punched / sedated, CamSpy, etc.). I'm ...

Owning a Playdate comes with the perk of already having access to 24 games at no additional cost from the bundled-in Season One — and some pretty good ones to boot. But there are a ton of great games ...

Games on the Sony PlayStation and Nintendo 64 can be played on an Apple Silicon Mac with a little bit of work. Here's how to emulate the classic consoles on a Mac or MacBook. The transition from the ...

Poki is one of the best online gaming platforms. It has a vast collection of online games. You can play these games on your web browser without installing them on ...

Thus far, 2024 has been a strange year for gaming. With a first half populated by a handful of big releases, but mostly dominated by the indie scene doing its best work, many gamers were left looking ...