There was a lot going on at Gamescom, so much so that you might have missed the reveal of an all-new mini console. Sega and Nintendo have stepped away from that side of the business, but there’s one ...

What is considered retro varies from person to person, depending somewhat on age and when one started playing. But for many, the Master System and NES generation is seen as a kind of starting point.

It's the year 2025, and a brand new 8-bit video game system is apparently planning to burst onto the scene. I'm not talking about some sort of NES clone or even retro console remake with fancy FPGA ...

Fairphone has been making smartphones from ethically-sourced materials for over a decade. In recent years the company has also leaned into repairable, sustainable hardware that’s even occasionally ...

When The Vectrex arrived in 1982, it felt like it had beamed in from the future. Unique then – and still today – as the only home console with a vector display, it served up pin-sharp glowing graphics ...

Ask any hardcore gamer who grew up in the 1980s to name what they believe to be the first portable gaming console. They’d probably answer with the Entex Electric Baseball game or those tiny, white ...

One of the holy grails of retro game consoles is coming back in miniature form. The Vectrex Mini will be a smaller-sized, OLED version of the original, and introduce the vector-based monochrome games ...

It has continued to grow. In 2025, it takes up so much space that even the overarching "Family & Friends" area has now been renamed the "Retro & Family Area". In addition to old gaming machines, games ...

For the longest time, the mighty Vectrex was my retro console holy grail. I managed to get hold of a Japanese model for remarkably cheap around ten years ago, but the '80s all-in-one arcade system ...

It’s becoming clearer now that most old consoles and computers are ripe for a remake. From handhelds to mini versions of things such as the Commodore 64 or Spectrum, everything seems to be making a ...

The Vectrex console from the early 1980s holds a special place in retrocomputing lore thanks to its vector display — uniquely for a home system, it painted its graphics to the screen by drawing them ...