It's completely legal to explore vast swaths of the history of PC gaming without paying a dime. I’m PCMag’s home theater and AR/VR expert, and your go-to source of information and recommendations for ...

ScummVM is a free and open source tool that makes it possible to run classic PC games on a wide variety of modern platforms. The software was originally designed to recreate the LucasArts game engine ...

Run the likes of Civilization and Daggerfall as God intended, now easily loaded directly from ZIP files.

It feels like every day another videogame is gone forever. In the age of digital storefronts, old versions of games are delisted for remasters, struggling live-service releases are pulled offline, and ...

Gaming on Mac has never been easier or better, but there are still many games that won't run on macOS natively, especially ...

Super Mario, Zelda (or Link), Purple Tentacle, Sonic—these are just a few of the heroes who have inspired gamers for over 40 years. Some of the original gaming devices from Atari, Commodore, Nintendo, ...

The games from these websites are some of the best and worst of the past, so dig in and you are certain to find a few gems that are playable for many years to come. If you want to play old DOS games, ...

DOSBox makes it easy to play classic PC games on modern platforms by emulating the MS-DOS environment for which they were designed. It’s available in a variety of versions for almost any platform. But ...

If you’re in the mood to walk down the halls of role-playing game history, open up your Steam client. Bethesda has added the original entries in the much-loved Elder Scrolls series to Steam, and two ...

Steam has three new free PC games earning positive user reviews that everyone with a Steam account can download and keep.

Playing Steam games with a Nintendo classic controller is now easier than ever, thanks to a client update that adds the retro gamepads to the Steam Input support roaster. Switch compatible versions of ...