America knew it as the Nintendo Entertainment System, but in Japan, it was the Family Computer (Famicom). It was more than just a home console—it was intended to actually do a whole lot more. All ...

From performance boosts to library clean up, these Decky Loader plugins help you get more out of Steam Deck and Bazzite ...

It was only a generation ago that Nintendo was faced with abject failure, but a reader is adamant that the Wii U had a good selection of quality game exclusives. I’ve said this loads, so I apologise ...

Craig is a reporter for Pocket-lint based in Toronto. He earned a diploma in journalism from Seneca Polytechnic and holds a Media Foundations certificate from Humber College. Craig previously interned ...

Probably among the most widely used hardware interfaces seen in consumer electronics these days is the USB. Short for Universal Serial Bus, the USB first emerged in the 1990s when a group of engineers ...

While Sony and Nintendo have expanded their lead over Xbox, a dark horse console had a very strong showing in third place in November. The Nex Playground has emerged as a breakout hit, and CEO David ...

Nintendo has finally won damages in a Wii Remote lawsuit it's been fighting since 2010, over an unofficial controller that infringed on the company's patents. 15 years on, Nintendo has claimed victory ...

Reece Reilly, AKA Kiwi Talkz, has brought up an unexpected piece of video game history, involving Grand Theft Auto V and the Wii U. He said this on Twitter the other day: NateTheHate saying Rockstar ...

With a television remote-style controller that tracked the motion of a player's hands in real time, the Nintendo Wii was unlike any console before it. Designed to get players moving their body, ...

If you’re like me, you’ve accumulated a lot of USB flash drives over the years, to the point where most of them are sitting unused and in storage. But recently I’ve come to realize that an old flash ...

While the Switch 2 shows that Nintendo learned its lesson with the Wii U, the Wii U itself was a failure. 13.56 million Wii U units were sold throughout the console's lifetime. While that sounds like ...

Historically, efforts to create original games and tools, port over open source emulators, and explore a game console’s hardware and software have been generally lumped together under the banner of ...