The Memory Shortage Could End the Era of Physical Games

Memory costs are ballooning across every industry, and it means game publishers have far fewer reasons to pay for physical ...

Two-year preservation project recovers 144 lost ROMs from the Sega Channel streaming service

At its peak, the service had around 250,000 subscribers. Things seemed promising, but Sega had already started moving on from ...
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I Grew Up on Atari. Now I'm Reliving My Childhood on the Gamestation Go

Commentary: Wander down Gen X gamer memory lane with 200 games, including Pac-Man, Asteroids, Berserk and Centipede.

Riot Games is making an anti-cheat change that could be rough on older PCs

Riot Games, best known for titles like Valorant and League of Legends and the Vanguard anti-cheat software, has often been ...

Riot Games found a motherboard security flaw that helps PC cheaters

Your motherboard may need a security update to keep playing Valorant.

New UEFI flaw enables pre-boot attacks on motherboards from Gigabyte, MSI, ASUS, ASRock

The UEFI firmware implementation in some motherboards from ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock is vulnerable to direct memory ...

I played dozens of retro games this year, and these are the ones I still whole-heartedly recommend going into 2026

Dust off your DOS, reinstall those ROMs, and party like it's 1999.

Asus tells owners of its Intel motherboards to update the BIOS because they 'may allow unintended access to system memory'

For maximum security, Asus recommends that you "download and update the BIOS to the specified version from the official website and, in the BIOS Setup Utility, configure the IOMMU DMA Protection ...
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Turn ‘Em On: Modern Nintendo Cartridges May Have A Limited Lifespan

Cartridge-based consoles have often been celebrated for their robust and reliable media. You put a simple ROM chip in a tough ...