Resourceful hackers have long been rejuvenating Nintendo's consoles past their sell-by dates. Armed with in-game exploits, the homebrew community persistently overcame updates to release unofficial ...

The Nintendo Switch may not be the most powerful game console released this year, but it’s one of the most intriguing, thanks to its modular design that lets you use a single device as a tablet, a ...

For as long as consoles have been around, people have been hacking them. Nintendo in particular has a long and storied history with hackers, especially with its more modern consoles. Healthy homebrew ...

It isn't a rare thing to see homebrew communities pop up around Nintendo consoles. We've seen it happen with the Wii, Wii U, and 3DS, and now that the Switch is on the scene, the homebrew community ...

Yeah dudes. That’s Pokemon Ruby (or maybe Sapphire, we don’t know) running on a Nintendo Switch. This proves that the floodgates have been pushed wide open, and you better believe that there’s more to ...

Just before the world celebrated the arrival of 2018, it was revealed the Nintendo’s Switch handheld had been hacked. Using an exploit built into NVIDIA’s Tegra chip, a team in Germany was able to ...

Nintendo gaming consoles are typically pretty well locked down (at least initially), and are a tough nut to crack for enthusiasts. About the closest that homebrew wizards came to prying inside the ...

The Nintendo Switch may soon be a haven for hackers, but not the kind that want your data — the kind that want to run SNES emulators and Linux on their handheld gaming consoles. A flaw in an Nvidia ...

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Nintendo has reportedly issued a DMCA takedown notice to the developers behind Lockpick, a popular Switch homebrew tool. It’s believed that the legal action may be linked to the leak of The Legend of ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Lockpick is a tool used to legitimately play Nintendo Switch games on PC, in that it's designed to work with games you own via accessing the physical files ...

Game console manufacturers don't particularly like hackers, but Nintendo's relationship with them has always been particularly tenuous. At a recent hacking conference in Germany a team presented their ...