Video game home consoles date back to the 1970s, when swapping game cartridges wasn’t possible because that sort of thing didn’t exist. Still, some systems sold better than others, and as technology ...

Ronald is a Contributor at DualShockers with more than a decade of experience covering video games. He began writing about games in 2013 through public forums, reviews, news, and opinion pieces, ...

Consider, if you will, the horror game. Horror is one of the bedrock genres of fiction, an unsettling story to tingle your spine and terrify your thoughts, so it’s only right it would be represented ...

Jake Valentine is a Staff Writer at DualShockers with more than two decades of experience covering the video game industry. Since 2004, he has written about games across news, reviews, guides, lists, ...

A game console is nothing without its games. You can create the most sophisticated piece of tech out there or create a game-changing control gimmick, but it doesn’t mean much of anything if there aren ...

The console market has gone from bad to worse as the prices continue to rise and the audience shifts towards other gaming ...

We’ve just concluded Polygon’s search for the game of this console generation (first-party division). Limiting ourselves to pitting Sony and Microsoft’s in-house games against each other was a ...

Gaming consoles have a fascinating history, with the 1972 release of the Magnavox Odyssey marking a major shift in the entertainment landscape. Arcades were still thriving in their golden age at that ...

[Editor's Note: We're re-running this opinion piece from April because, well, you know...] It’s not supposed to be like this. Until the current ninth console generation, video game hardware had a ...

One of the oldest video game genres is the adventure genre, which began on computers and shifted over to the home video game console market in the late 1970s. Like every other genre, it started small ...

Shooters have come in all shapes and sizes over the years. From the light gun days of old, the run-and-guns of the original home consoles, to the first-person and third-person shooters of today, the ...