Video Games

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the coolest updates in the world of wallet-draining geek merch.…

This week, Lucasfilm announced an overhaul of its video game licensing efforts with a rebranding of Lucasfilm Games…

The handshake meme, but it’s “Wolfenstein,” “Indiana Jones, ” and “Killing some goddamn Nazis.”

Despite its retro charms, for $50 the Nintendo Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. handheld felt like it could benefit…

While playing through Supergiant Games’ Hades I kept asking myself, why is this game so freaking good?

As uncomfortable as it may seem to some, working at a standing desk is better for your health than sprawling out on…

Christmas is out of the way, and covid-19 has cancelled New York Toy Fair, but also: It’s Been a Week. So your…

Assuming everyone was getting tired of spending every waking hour playing video games while socially distancing at…

Having to feed a machine an unending supply of quarters to enjoy your favorite video game was just one of many…

In its biggest single-day purge, Apple removed 39,000 games from its China store as part of a crackdown on games…

There’s a niche arms race among hardware hackers to create ultra compact versions of video game consoles, and YouTube…

In the early ‘90s, Nintendo surveyed the massive success of the Game Boy and thought, what if you could also work on…

Apple is getting ready to remove thousands more video games from its App Store in China due to pressure from the…

It was a rough year for all of us in the real world, but those fictional universes we spend so much time in didn’t…

The Switch’s 6.2-inch screen is fine for playing by yourself, but despite what Nintendo claims, it’s not great for…

With the help of an extra graphics processing chip inside the cartridge, Star Fox did the impossible by bringing 3D…

Happy holidays, everybody! Now with that out of the way, I need to talk to you about this “Worst Episode Ever”…

The debate over which is the better gaming system—a console or a PC—may never be resolved, but it’s hard to argue…

With the live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movie being as surprisingly solid as it was, Sega’s latest plans for the…

A month ago, when we first covered App Craft Studio’s Retro Widget that gave the iPhone and Apple Watch a Nokia make-…