Play old arcade games on your PC

Nvidia’s long-awaited 3D kit finally arrives and when it works, it’s every bit as good as we’d hoped it would be.

From movies and games to sporting events and even pornography, David Bayon explains why 3D displays are the next big thing.

From budget laptops to ultra-tiny netbooks, ultraportables and high performance, we explain the tricks to finding out the ultimate laptop at the right price.

Make this year’s biggest games shine with glorious high-detail, thumping sound and the best accessories

Microsoft pulls a rabbit out of a hat with their new Natal Xbox motion controller, and we get flashbacks of Nintendo's Power Glove and shonky 90s virtual reality

Some of the wildest, weirdest and most useful gadgets and gizmos for kids - or big kids at heart

The company promises that Windows 7 will be the best version of its operating system yet, critical acclaim has often eluded Redmond. We've decided to count down the ten best products ever to come out of Redmond, from DOS 5 to Flight Simulator and NT 4.0

To honour John Hughes, we've listed tech movies that give you all an excuse to sit down with a DVD or two and enjoy tech in the movies..

Remember Secret of Monkey Island? Here are some the hidden gems of the Web, from sites celebrating LucasArts adventure games, to ancient Ataris and long-lost hardware from your childhood.

Superb performance in one of the sturdiest and best-looking gaming laptops we’ve seen – the Alienware M17x is worth the expense.

Sony's motion control tech is due in Spring 2010 and guess what? They'll be games for it too. LittleBigPlanet and Resident Evil 5 are amongst them

Will Wright, creator of The Sims and Spore, has revealed his plans for his new company Stupid Fun Club. Expect real-life robots and gaming to go hand-in-hand

The CD was supposed to change all our lives by making the leap from music format of choice to living room multimedia marvel. But somehow it never worked out that way in reality...

Remember the CD-i? Launched in 1991, this odd appliance promised a revolution in the way we watch movies at home, just as Blu-Ray does today.

Nintendo has released the DSi update that will bring Facebook to its handheld, while also blocking R4-type piracy devices that let you play bootlegged games for free

This week we examine a few of those true 'killer apps,' and what they have meant to computing

Can you imagine a time when computers didn't have GPUs? Here are graphics technologies that helped take computing out of the lab and into the hands of consumers and professionals

EA's head honcho has spilled the beans about its first motion-sensitive games for Microsoft's Project Natal Xbox 360 add-on and Sony's PS3 Wand

Microsoft has confirmed it has cut a "small percentage", thought to be around 600,000 gamers, off from Xbox Live for modifying their consoles to play pirated games