40 years ago the videogame industry started to undergo a seismic shift, but it would take over two years for almost anybody in North America to realize it. On July 15, 1983, while the games industry ...

An original prototype of Nintendo’s Super Famicom, Japan’s (superior) version of the SNES, was up for auction with recent bids pushing the grey piece of gaming history north of $3.2 million. Then, ...

This is the first mechanical keyboard from gaming accessory maker 8Bitdo, and it has two designs inspired by the Famicom and Nintendo Entertainment System game consoles for $99.99 each. 8Bitdo has ...

The Nintendo Family Computer (more commonly known as the Famicom) launched in 1983 in Japan, a full two years before its Western analog, the NES, debuted in North America. This was right as the video ...

Trumann started writing for news around 2017-2018, with a specialization in local news and gaming reviews for a local paper. He began writing for GameRant in June 2021 as one of the team's Weekend ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally in 2010 because an opportunity presented itself ...

Earlier this week, someone put up what was believed to be a prototype of Nintendo’s Super Famicom console for auction. Such a rare piece of gaming history could very well have sold for a high price ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. TOKYO–The Level X game exhibition and Famicom retrospective that ...

Nintendo revealed today that it will stop manufacturing its Famicom (NES) and Super Famicom (SNES) consoles in Japan in September. Likewise, Nintendo will also stop its disk-rewriting services for the ...

Ratalaika Games and Shinyuden have partnered with Arc System Works to release the board game-style turn-based RPG, Sugoro Quest: Dice Heroes, for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, ...

Japan is the mecca of video games. The country essentially jumpstarted the video game industry, so it is obviously home to some of the largest and longest-lived studios, many of which develop games ...

Some imaginative and resourceful game preservationists have reverse-engineered a long-lost F-Zero game from the mid-'90s. Eurogamer reports that faithful recreations of two BS F-Zero Grand Prix games, ...