Developers have now made it possible to emulate PS2 games on the Xbox Series X and S using the RetroArch emulator — something that the PlayStation 5, a successor to the PS2, can’t. Thanks to the Xbox ...

It’s hardly a secret any more at this point that today’s game consoles from Microsoft and Sony are essentially AMD gaming rigs packed up into a custom package and with tweaked system software. So it’s ...

Yet another excuse to get stuck into the old favorites.

Modern gaming consoles have exploded with indie games and apps, but one category has always proven an exception: emulators. This week, however, Ars has learned of an apparent loophole in Microsoft’s ...

Back in 2020, we reported that emulator developers were using a hole in the Xbox Store’s app distribution system to get around Microsoft’s longstanding ban on emulators running on Xbox consoles. This ...

While the Xbox Series X/S show a lot of promise for the future, at the moment there aren't a ton of next-generation games to play on them. While we wait for those games to arrive, there's no lack of ...

Microsoft shut down classic game emulation on the Xbox Series X/S on April 6 and a small but passionate community of retro enthusiasts, preservationists, and homebrew devs are up in arms. They’re ...

In context: There was quite a lot of talk about backward compatibility from both Microsoft and Sony in the lead-up to their next-gen consoles. While Microsoft can boast that the Xbox Series X and S ...