Those old CD games that have been sitting on your shelf for eternity? Linux can run them.

James Ratcliff joined GameRant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is a ...

TL;DR: Desktop Survivors 98, an indie action roguelike by Brandon Hesslau, blends '90s Windows 98 nostalgia with wave-based gameplay on your actual desktop. Fans of '90s nostalgia, roguelikes, and ...

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 ...

I'm partial to builds with a retrofuturistic flair, particularly palmtop projects that imagine a portable past that never existed. Taking a leaf from the 'Windows where it shouldn't be' chapter out of ...