Portable gaming hardware is usually grouped into eras, much like home consoles, but the boundaries are looser and the milestones…
July 18, 2026
Nintendo has sold 19.86 million Switch 2 units since the console's June 5, 2025 launch, according to Nintendo's own fiscal…
July 12, 2026
The phrase "retro handheld" now covers two very different things: the original portable consoles that defined classic gaming, and a…
July 3, 2026
Many classic cartridges save progress in volatile SRAM that forgets its contents the moment it loses power, so they include…
June 26, 2026
Games switched from cartridges to discs in the mid-1990s because optical discs held more than a hundred times the data…
June 24, 2026
The Xbox 360 went through eight distinct motherboard revisions across its 2005-2016 production run, known internally by codenames: Xenon, Zephyr,…
June 23, 2026
The way games are delivered to players has changed as dramatically as the games themselves. From fragile ROM cartridges to…
February 12, 2026
The video game controller is the bridge between player and game — the physical interface that translates human intention into…
January 19, 2026