Review: Atari 2600+ – The Grandaddy Of Gaming Is Back

Time to dust off those old carts. Originally released back in 1977, the Atari VCS (later known as the 2600) was a groundbreaking piece of consumer electronics. Sure, it wasn’t the first ‘game console’ to hit the market, but it was the first to find lasting commercial success; indeed, the name ‘Atari’ became synonymous with…

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Retro Emulators Are Coming To iPhone’s App Store

Thanks to new European ruling on third-party app stores. Retro emulation on smartphones has long been exclusive to Android devices, due to Apple’s somewhat stricter policies relating to what apps can and can’t be distributed on its App Store. However, that’s about to change; Apple has just announced that retro emulators will be permitted on…

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Microsoft says ‘Russian state-sponsored’ hackers gained access to ‘a very small percentage of Microsoft corporate email accounts’

Microsoft said today that it was hacked by a “Russian state-sponsored actor” called Midnight Blizzard, also known as Nobelium. That’s the same group of hackers suspected to be responsible for the major SolarWinds supply chain hack that occurred in 2020. “Beginning in late November 2023, the threat actor used a password spray attack to compromise…

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