The big picture: The holidays are often considered the peak season for the video game industry, as consoles and games are frequently purchased as gifts. This year, however, has been less kind: both ...

US spending on video game consoles fell 27% last month, marking the worst November in two decades as tariffs and rising component costs pushed prices to record highs. American consumers spent $695 ...

Video games are big business, so plenty of companies want to jump on board as console makers. After all, if you own the box players want to play on, you’ll be rolling in money as more and more sales ...

Today’s video game consoles are hundreds of dollars more expensive than you’d expect based on historic pricing trends. That’s according to an Ars Technica analysis of decades of pricing data and price ...

Even the most hardcore Nintendo fan who is always at the ready to hit you with the fact that Nintendo began in the 1800s selling Hanafuda cards is unlikely to know that the first true Nintendo console ...

We’ll start with the most far-reaching addition, which the spec describes as “a new Iterator global with associated static and prototype methods for working with iterators.” The most exciting part of ...

Choosing between intrusive logging and leaving users in the dark is a classic dilemma for JavaScript developers. Do you burden your users with unnecessary dependencies for debugging, or do you forgo ...

When running Cypress tests in interactive mode, all environment variables (including sensitive ones) are exposed in the browser's JavaScript context. This means any code running in the browser, ...

If you’ve ever been locked out of your work computer, you know the urgent need to reach IT support. Unfortunately, help desk staff are often busy assisting others, which can mean a significant delay ...

The iPhone 16 Pro packs an incredible camera setup for both still images and for video production -- including its fun 4K slow-motion mode. But to help it capture pro-standard video footage, it also ...