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 ...

Editor's take: A few years after launching the original iPod, Apple began offering commercial games compatible with the fifth-generation model and later. By 2006, the media player had evolved into a ...

The iPod age of gaming came and went fairly quickly during the two-decade lifecycle of Apple's signature brand of music players. Apple released 54 games for the iPod clickwheel that could have been ...

In the film Steve Jobs, the character Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender) echoed the company’s tagline by promising to put 1,000 songs in his daughter’s pocket. Today, a dedicated group of classic iPod ...

Last year, we reported on the efforts of classic iPod fans to preserve playable copies of the downloadable clickwheel games that Apple sold for a brief period in the late ’00s. The community was ...

Today we’re going to explore how the very first iPod was developed, how it was almost cancelled before release, and how it caused an actual explosion on Apple’s campus. Now Apple became involved with ...

I got my first iPod — complete with 40 GB of storage to stuff all my favorite songs and albums into — in sixth grade. It didn’t have any apps, I couldn’t browse the web, and there were no red bubbles ...

A truly astounding collection of fashion designer-owned iPods, including a few bespoke models, has surfaced at auction. Part of prolific fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld's estate is currently being ...

Every now and then a developer creates an app that lets you turn your iPhone display into a classic iPod. They never last long before Apple pulls them from the App Store, but there’s a new one you can ...

As great as modern technology is, sometimes it can be a bit overwhelming. Smartphones today are capable of virtually endless tasks and are light-years better than mobile gadgets from a decade or two ...