On my desk is a Nintendo device that looks like equipment stolen from a cyberpunk optical shop. It's big, it's red and black, it sits on a tripod, it has an eyepiece, and it has a Nintendo Switch 2 ...

The Virtual Boy ended up being the one Nintendo handheld that never caught on due to a number of factors. A shame in a way, due to its unique properties and unexpected library prioritizing early 3D ...

Ars Technica AI Reporter and tech historian Benj Edwards has co-written a book on the Virtual Boy with Dr. Jose Zagal. In this exclusive excerpt, Benj and Jose take you back to Nintendo of the early ...

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Nintendo Switch Online adds five more retro games for subscribers with the Expansion Pack upgrade to play at their leisure.

Nintendo is dusting off one of its most unusual ideas. The Virtual Boy, one of the company’s bold but flawed 3D consoles from the 1990s, will return next year as an accessory for the Nintendo Switch ...

For every success, like the Nintendo Switch 2, there’s a dud, like the Virtual Boy. Released in Japan and America in 1995, it was developed by Game Boy creator Gunpei Yokoi as the next evolutionary ...