ScummVM, the collection of recreated last-century game engines that allows replaying classic adventures from the likes of LucasArts and Revolution, has just added support for Macromedia Director. This ...

You have it way easier these days, but back in the day, when you wanted to play a game on your PC, you had to take a similar approach to consoles. Go to a physical store, get a disc, then pop it into ...

Although the company eventually released a PC with a CD-ROM drive in 1991, the Commodore 64’s heyday was long before CD-ROMs became popular. But that didn’t stop Rainbow Arts from releasing a ...

I think the headline might give the wrong impression to some people. ScummVM isn't general-purpose like DOSBox: each supported game engine has been painstakingly reimplemented in modern code. It's not ...

The ScummVM community has just made the early CD-ROM gaming era more accessible. For five years, multiple people have worked on making Macromedia Director games playable on modern hardware, and today, ...

A new retro games console has been launched on Indiegogo which provides the opportunity to enjoy those old games from CDs which are no longer easy to play on the current range of available gaming ...

Platforms Wrestling the Steam 'Goliath,' pulling a Nightdive, and seeing off vulture capital: GOG chats the risks and opportunities of its future as a company without CD Projekt Handheld Gaming PCs ...

The "Cosmic Fantasy" series, which was one of the first CD-ROM games to use animation to depict crucial scenes, shocking fans, is making a comeback after more than 30 years. Now more than ever, it’s a ...

Nintendo never released a CD-ROM gaming system. But for a while in the early 1990s, it flirted with the idea. That protracted will-they-won’t-they romance produced pages of breathless gossip columns ...