The Dolphin team has just hit a major milestone with robust Nintendo TriForce arcade platform emulation — including networking.

Honoring the legacy of Hideki Sato, I dedicated my weekend to gaming on an original Sega Mega Drive. I highly recommend that everyone experience this classic '80s console at least once.

Wind the clock back to 2024 and Nintendo’s legal attack on Switch emulators RyuJinx and Yuzu. The emulators had incurred the wrath of the notoriously litigious company by, in some cases, openly ...

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Emulation has really come into its own over the past few years, thanks to a resourceful development community. Right along with it, we've seen a host of new Android-based emulation and retro game ...

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Backward compatibility has been one of the Nintendo Switch 2‘s major talking points, but Nintendo has revealed the console doesn’t natively run Switch games. Instead, Nintendo designed its own ...

The original Dreamcast controller was a revolutionary device when the console launched in the late '90s, but in 2025, it might feel dated for retro gaming fans. Luckily, the Retro Fighters D6 wireless ...

The Dreamcast emulator Flycast has added support for native Dreamcast online multiplayer. Still an experimental feature, it currently supports 20 games. Servers are hosted by Flycast developer ...

I’m sure there are people out there who are thrilled to see Star Wars: Episode 1: Jedi Power Battles reappear from the bowels of their nostalgic memories. I thought it was neat that one podracing game ...

Nintendo has dealt yet another blow to the Switch emulation scene, which has long been a thorn in the company’s side. After taking down Yuzu through the courts earlier this year, it seems as if the ...