James Ratcliff joined Game Rant 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 ...

Until the 2000s, game consoles existed primarily to bring a bit of the gaming arcade experience to homes, providing graphical ...

The PlayStation 2, a console that defined an era of gaming, has seen its legacy preserved and celebrated thanks to the dedicated efforts of the PCSX2 team. This open-source emulator, born in 2002, has ...

The author is a practicing lawyer and has been playing videogames ever since he could hold a gameboy; obsessed with all things Dark Souls. The PlayStation 2 is the one of the most iconic video game ...

The PlayStation 2 was the first game console I ever bought. Heck, it was the first big ticket item I ever bought, period. That was a big deal at a time when I was only making $135 a week, and most of ...

When you hear “PS2” and “Windows 95,” you probably think someone forgot a slash and are talking about peripherals, but no — this hack is very much about the Sony PlayStation 2, the best-selling game ...

Ask any PlayStation fan worth their salt about Sony’s console history and, specifically, which system they consider the most important — the one that signalled a watershed moment, if you will — and ...

“PlayStation changed the history of video games,” is how Hiroyuki Maeda describes the gaming giant as the company is set to celebrate its 30th anniversary. Maeda, a Japanese who specialises in video ...