EmulationStation Desktop Edition, or ES-DE, is a popular user interface for organizing, launching and playing video games designed for consoles. It’s not an emulator itself, but it makes it easy to manage emulators for a console-like experience on devices like handheld gaming PCs or computers plugged into a big-screen TV. Earlier this month the developer […]
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EmulationStation-DE is now available for Android
EmulationStation Desktop Edition (ES-DE) is a frontend for viewing, launching, and playing video games designed for classic computers and game consoles thanks to support for emulators for dozens of different game systems. Up until recently, ES-DE was available as a free and open source app for Windows, macOS, and Linux. But now there’s also an […]
This AMD Ryzen-powered handheld concept with two OLED displays is like a modern Nintendo 3DS
Most of the handheld gaming PCs with x86 processors that have shown up in the past few years are designed to play PC games. But Japanese gaming hardware company Tassei Denki brought something a little different to the Tokyo Game Show last week. The company built a dual-screen concept device that’s best described as a […]
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon G chips might not just be for Android gaming handhelds
Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon G series processors are designed for handheld game consoles like the upcoming AYA Neo Pocket S, which is expected to ship with an Android-based operating system. But in an interview with The Verge, Qualcomm’s senior gaming director Mithun Chandrasekhar says the chip could eventually power devices running other operating systems as well. […]
Vita3K Android emulator brings support for (some) PlayStation Vita games to smartphones
Vita3K is an experimental PlayStation Vita emulator that’s been available for Windows, Mac, and Linux for some time. Now you can also use it to play some Vita games on Android phones. The first builds of Vita3K Android are now available for download from the project’s GitHub release page. Note that at this point Vita3K […]
The Internet Archive’s Calculator Drawer is a web-based emulator for classic calculators
The Internet Archive has been archiving websites for nearly three decades. But in recent years the company has moved to provide digital archives of classic computer games and, more recently, Palm Pilot apps. Now the company’s reaching a bit further back in digital history with the launch of The Calculator Drawer, a collection of classic […]
Retroleap firmware transforms the LeapsterGS and LeapPad2 into retro game consoles
LeapFrog makes a variety of educational gadgets for young children. But with a little bit of know-how, you can transform some of the company’s older kids’ toys into… more versatile toys. Retroleap replaces the firmware that ships with the LeapsterGS and LeapPad 2 devices with a Linux-based operating system built around the RetroArch emulation utility. […]
Lilbits: LastPass customer data stolen (included encrypted password vaults) and what you can do about it
You probably know that you should have a unique, secure password for every site you visit (unless you’re already living in the post-password world of passkeys). You also probably know that there’s no way you’re going to remember all of those unique passwords, which is why we have password managers like 1Password, LastPass, Dashlane, Bitwarden, […]
GKD mini Plus is a retro game console with detachable analog sticks
The GKD mini Plus is a handheld game console with a 3.5 inch display and a compact design that should make the system easy to slide into a pocket. In fact, it looks nearly identical to the original GKD mini, with a D-Pad and four action buttons on the front, plus a few shoulder buttons […]
PlayStation games come to the Game Boy Advance (via a hacked cartridge)
It’s been close to two decades since Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance was state of the art in the handheld gaming space. But folks are still finding new uses for the handheld console with a 2.9 inch, 240 x 160 pixel display and 16.8 MHz 32-bit processor. One of the latest examples? You can use it […]