Once upon a time (10 years ago, in my basement), a young boy could only put down his Nintendo 64 controller to pick up a controller for his PlayStation. One day, he told his mom, “I want to be a video ...

It’s Mario Day! Many of us have Nintendo’s jumping, mushroom-demolishing, Italian plumber to thank for our love of gaming — and for inspiring an interest in technology. So, why not celebrate Mario Day ...

Back in 2013, Mark Kleback was living in the back of Death By Audio, that wonderful, now-defunct DIY venue formerly located by the Williamsburg waterfront. There, he started tinkering with making ...

The Clockwork GameShell is a modular, hackable handheld game console that runs open source software and comes as a DIY kit, with some assembly required. When fully assembled, you can use it as a ...

The sequel to the Everything Console, my custom DIY retro game console. This new custom emulation PC is capable of running every video game from your childhood, from the original Atari through to ...

This Gibson Explorer-modeled, fully functional LEGO Guitar Hero controller is definitely one of the better DIY video game peripherals we’ve seen—it’s exponentially more attractive than the last ...