I recently explained that May could end up being one of the best months in the history of Xbox Game Pass, but even then I ...

As you can see when comparing these various consoles' external and internal design revisions, shrinking the chips had a cascade of other beneficial and cost-lowering effects: smaller power supplies, ...

For the uninitiated, the Atari 2600—known initially as the Video Computer System, or VCS for short—was the first popular cartridge-based game console. Launched in 1977, it ignited an entire ...

Today, in the Year of our Lord 2023, you can pre-order an Atari 2600 replica that Atari calls the Atari 2600+. Slightly smaller than Atari’s original 1977 console, and using modern connections ...

The console will include, “legendary games from Atari 2600 ... Without the streaming and download capabilities of the Atari VCS, it will, we hope, be much cheaper than $300.

It has been reported this week that Atari will stop making its retro-inspired games console the Atari VCS, which unfortunately for the company has proved to be a flop rather than save the ...

My passion for technology stems from a lifelong love of gaming. I received my first video game console when I was just 3 years old—a 16-bit Sega Genesis handed down to me by my father.

Still, the console lives on in cheapo TV games, a terrifyingly expensive Lego kit, and in reborn form as the current incarnation of Atari’s latest flop, the new VCS. Some things never change… For our ...

On Sept. 11, 1977, Atari unveiled the Video Computer System (VCS). It wasn’t the first game console, or even the first console to accept cartridges. But the Atari 2600, as the VCS came to be ...

It not only harkens to the dawn of home consoles ... as additional game system emulators, user interface improvements, 4K graphics and online multiplayer gaming. So the Atari VCS already feels ...

Atari’s VCS, or Videogame ... modern and retro games (and more via the cloud), stream movies, and surf the web on Google Chrome. However, a new update coming to the console will turn it into ...