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4 hacker-friendly gaming consoles you should get right now

We’ve seen some great strides towards having proper PS3 emulation on PC, allowing gamers to put the console in the cupboard but still play…

Dolphin emulator for Wii now lets you buy stuff online

Dolphin is considered one of the best emulators out there, being capable of emulating a host of GameCube and Wii games. The past few…

Backwards compatibility: 5 consoles that will play your old games

Unlike PCs, backwards compatibility isn’t a guarantee when buying a new video game console. Fortunately, there have been quite a few consoles packing the…

Nintendo NX games should put story, gameplay before graphics

A few years ago, a game debuted on the PlayStation 4, a then new and exciting concept that was to take gaming to an…

5 possible reasons why the PlayStation 4 is outselling the Xbox One

Sony this week announced at its massive Paris Games Week presentation the latest sales figures for the PlayStation 4 console, and they’re scary. Especially…

Nintendo’s Kimishima was only elected president for a year, he claims in interview

Tatsumi Kimishima is a name you’re going to hear a lot of in the coming year, thanks to the Nintendo board electing him as…

‘Project H.A.M.M.E.R.’ is a Nintendo Wii game that never was [video]

Nintendo has had a number of flops, but one of its biggest failures is one you’ve probably not heard of before. Unseen64 has recently…

Nintendo’s next big decision: 4 potential successors to Satoru Iwata’s throne

It’s been 13 long years since Nintendo was without a president. In 2002, after a torrid ten-year spell of failed gaming consoles and ideas,…

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata passes away at 55

It’s a sad, sad day for gaming. After a long battle with cancer, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has passed away aged 55 in Kyoto,…

Nintendo profits from weak yen, overseas hardware sales remain dismal

Nintendo has had a rough few years in the gaming sector and as a Japanese company in general. For one, it had to contend…

Ralph Baer — a tribute to the gaming console’s spirit animal

It has been a sad week for the gaming, and technology fraternity in general. One of the pioneering fathers of the gaming console as…

Nintendo used Phillips gesture-control patents, rules UK court

A UK court has officially ruled Nintendo guilty of infringing two patents belonging to Philips, both inherent in its Wii range of consoles. This…

Nintendo ends online gaming for Wii, DS and DSi

Sad news for Nintendo aficionados: the company will today terminate “online gameplay, matchmaking and leaderboards” support for its Wii, DS and DSi consoles, the…

A failure to Kinect

One of the first pieces I wrote for the .Burn suite of websites was titled “How the Nintendo Wii is ruining gaming”, an admittedly…

Nintendo’s surprise sticker slash

Nintendo has announced it will be cutting the price of its 3DS handheld game console. In the US it’s been slashed from US$250 to…

Geeks move over, families move in — A Kinect review

In 1978 my Binatone TV Master played pong. You definitely didn’t work up a sweat. Working up a sweat is now de rigueur, since…

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