The advent of 3D game consoles introduced gamers to a wide range of innovations that all took place within a short 5-year span during the mid-1990s. You had PS1, the first CD-based console and the...

Back in the day, we used to have these things called cheat devices that you’d purchase to access and modify parts of the game. The Gameshark is one such device, and variants were released for...

When we look at how far handheld gaming has come, it is hard to understate the important role played by early systems such as the Game Boy. A lot of things we have today are descended in one way or...

When a game freezes, it stops responding to player input and the only way to fix this issue is by forcibly shutting down the game. Freezes can happen due to hardware failures, invalid data, glitches...

The term “Nintendo Hard” is often used to describe video games with extremely steep difficulty curves or a general lack of QoL features such as quicksaves and difficulty settings. However, this...

People often bash Sony for not putting enough priority on backward compatibility, but they forget how Nintendo does the same thing with each new console lineup. Take the DS lineup, for instance- they...