Anyone who follows the console-hacking scene is by now used to the familiar stories of legal efforts to put a stop to the practice. Companies like Nintendo frequently make use of court orders, cease ...

In December 2018, Sony caved into the mini retro console craze with the PlayStation Classic. It was Sony’s answer to Nintendo’s smash hit, the NES Classic, released two years earlier. Within a few ...

For players just looking to have a good time when gaming online, hackers are a major nuisance. But regardless of how frustrating playing against someone with an unfair advantage can be, the practice ...

For publishers, one of the biggest perks of putting a game on a console versus Windows PC is locking it down from piracy. Of course, piracy is a two-sided coin, with those looking to flout the law on ...

Legal jockeying in the upcoming criminal trial of a Southern California man accused of modding Xbox 360 consoles heated up Tuesday when defense attorneys urged a judge to allow a fair-use defense, ...

The Sega Dreamcast is the forgotten orphan of the console wars, an extremely capable machine never able to escape the shadow of its PlayStation rivals and because it marked the end of Sega’s console ...

For some people, playing NES games on the NES Classic just isn't enough. They want the throwback system to play games from the SNES, Game Boy, Sega Genesis and Atari 2600, too. The hack allows NES ...

OUYA, the low-cost, Android-based and fully hackable gaming console had the biggest launch date in Kickstarter history. Pebble, the previous record holder, went on to raise over $10 million. As with ...

The hack included an aim-bot and used machine learning to emulate controller input for more precision After being first bought to light by the Anti-Cheat Police Department on Twitter, a console hack ...

More than six months after the Switch’s launch, Nintendo still shows no public interest in giving players the ability to externally back up save files on the popular Switch console. “I can’t say there ...