In just a few weeks, Nintendo 3DS and Wii U owners will finally completely lose the ability to purchase new digital games on those aging platforms. The move will cut off consumer access to hundreds of ...

Video games being a relatively nascent medium in comparison to film, literature, and television, the realm of classic video game preservation is just beginning to emerge. Downloadable emulators allow ...

Non-profit digital library Internet Archive is known for offering access to over 400 billion archived websites along with millions of free e-books, songs and videos. Internet Archive is supported by ...

How's this for a late Christmas present? Five retro consoles, with their complete back catalogues. Those consoles are the Atari 2600, Atari 7800 ProSystem, The ColecoVision, The Magnavox Odyssey, and ...

When record-setting “Jeopardy!” champion Ken Jennings first guest-hosted the show after Alex Trebek’s death, he had a good-luck charm in his pocket: a ticket from the 1983 debut episode of the current ...

A side-scrolling shooter in the R-Type vein, except you fly a ship that sprouts tentacles, Irem's X Multiply deserves to sit alongside its more famous stablemate. When we say 'in the vein', we mean ...

Like the Smithsonian in America, a well-known Australian preservation group has announced it will begin collecting video games for "archival preservation." The National Film and Sound Archive of ...

Archival footage to include thousands of hours of videos, in-season highlights and classic games; Two daily live games also accessible in select countries NEW YORK (April 29, 2013) – MLB Advanced ...

The non-profit Internet Archive's been bringing digitised collections of historic documents to the web since 1996. Since 1999 they've been adding media beyond old books. This month they've added ...