Licensing woes may have turned these gems into digital ghosts we can’t officially buy, but abandonware sites are a guilt-free ...

As PC gamers, we tend to be as much about the good games of old as the up and coming new releases. We know that, while Crysis is all very pretty and fun, there’s a lot of nostalgic joy to be had by ...

Do you ever feel like booting up one of the classic games from your childhood, just to enjoy a sense of nostalgia, or maybe to show it to your own kids for the first time? Welcome to the wonderful ...

Websites that offer formerly paid software for free do so with little to no illusion of legality. However you feel about ...

PC gaming has always had its own vocabulary, a chaotic swirl of slang, technical terms, and jargon, and these days it can be more confusing than ever. Who could possibly keep up with it all? Well, I ...

To be honest, the original circumstances around Assassin’s Creed Liberation looked pretty bad. The game’s Steam page was marked with an announcement that sales of the game would cease in September – ...

Im Englischen heißt “to abandon”: etwas aufgeben, vernachlässigen, verlassen. Die schnelllebige Software-Industrie hat sich aus dem Wort einen eigenen Begriff herausgeprägt: Abandonware, zu deutsch ...

Es ist zum Auswachsen: Vor zehn Jahren machte ein Computerspiel nächtelang Freude. Jetzt will man es wieder spielen, doch ach: Der Datenträger ist inzwischen unbrauchbar geworden. Eine Nachfrage im ...

I think it’s fair to presume that whenever we see the Electronic Frontier Foundation (“EFF”) squaring off with a major trade association (the Entertainment Software Association or “ESA” in this case), ...

With the shutdown of the Wii U/3DS E-shops, and the brief respite offered to the PS3 Store, the issue surrounding archiving video games remains as prominent as ever. Pirating old ROMs isn't ideal, yet ...

Some gamers have been arguing for years that abandonware--older games that are no longer supported by their original copyright holders--should be exempted from copy-protection laws. These retro gamers ...

Eight classic games that exist in an ownership gray area. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Abandonware, by its most lucid ...