Retro Recap All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (May 3rd 2026)
C64 and Spectrum handhelds! Capcom! Rare! Smash Bros!
- Retro Recap
- Features
Ocean's Gary Bracey will also be there
- Events
- UK
- Kev Bayliss
- Rare
An official N64 port was considered back in the '90s, but never finished
- News
- Tomb Raider
- N64
- Fan Projects
Random Game Saturday Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness - The Limited Edition (Saturn)
Heavy metal
- Random Game Saturday
- Sega
- Sega Saturn
News Godzilla Minus One Director Puts Star Fox Puppet Mystery To Bed, Once & For All
Update: Takashi Yamazaki, the person who created the puppets, has now waded in
- News
- Star Fox
- Nintendo
News "Juggernaut Can't Jump" - Ex-Capcom Dev Recalls The Early "Headaches" Of Working With Marvel
And how success & money appeared to change everything
- News
- Capcom
- Marvel
News The Day Has Arrived, Tomb Raider's Free Fanmade 'Side Scroller Edition' Is Finally Available
You can download the fan project now from TRCustoms
- News
- Tomb Raider
- Fan Projects
"There was no such word as 'localisation.' They were just calling it 'text translation.'"
- Interviews
- Features
- Capcom
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TodaySun, 3rd May 2026
Ocean's Gary Bracey will also be there
- Events
- UK
- Kev Bayliss
- Rare
Retro Recap All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (May 3rd 2026)
C64 and Spectrum handhelds! Capcom! Rare! Smash Bros!
- Retro Recap
- Features
Poll Box Art Brawl - Duel: Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales
Nintendo Life Do Chocobo have tails?
- Features
- Polls
- Box Art Brawl
- DS
- Final Fantasy
YesterdaySat, 2nd May 2026
Guide Shopping For Retro Nintendo Grails In Madrid
Nintendo Life The game in Spain
- Guides
- Features
- Nintendo
- Retro
An official N64 port was considered back in the '90s, but never finished
- News
- Tomb Raider
- N64
- Fan Projects
Random Game Saturday Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness - The Limited Edition (Saturn)
Heavy metal
- Random Game Saturday
- Sega
- Sega Saturn
Friday1st May 2026
"Please continue to support me"
- Castlevania
- Music
- Michiru Yamane
News "Juggernaut Can't Jump" - Ex-Capcom Dev Recalls The Early "Headaches" Of Working With Marvel
And how success & money appeared to change everything
- News
- Capcom
- Marvel
News Godzilla Minus One Director Puts Star Fox Puppet Mystery To Bed, Once & For All
Update: Takashi Yamazaki, the person who created the puppets, has now waded in
- News
- Star Fox
- Nintendo
News The Day Has Arrived, Tomb Raider's Free Fanmade 'Side Scroller Edition' Is Finally Available
You can download the fan project now from TRCustoms
- News
- Tomb Raider
- Fan Projects
News "A Hollow Victory" - '100% AI-Generated' Smash Bros. PC Port Comes Under Fire
"You cheated not only the game, but yourself"
- AI
- Super Smash Bros
- N64
- Nintendo
News The Arcade-Inspired Platformer 'Donut Dodo' Is Coming To The N64, With A Bunch Of New Features
Nintendo Sixty-FOOOOOOOOOOUR
- News
- Homebrews
- N64
- Dreamcast
"There was no such word as 'localisation.' They were just calling it 'text translation.'"
- Interviews
- Features
- Capcom
News Never-Before-Seen Shenmue Concept Art Unearthed and Shared Online
Push Square Dates back to the Virtua Fighter RPG days
- SEGA
- PS5
- PS4
- Shenmue
- Art
"We were completely enamoured by One More Win"
- Books
- Rocket Books
- Ridge Racer
News Dreamcast Owners, Take Note - 8BitMods' VMU Pro Just Got Its "Biggest Update Yet"
Includes "tons of fixes and polish"
- Sega
- Dreamcast
- 8BitMods
- Accessories
News An Iconic Tokyo Game Store Is Being Forced To Move Location Later This Month
'Beep Akihabara' is getting ready to move to an undisclosed location
- News
- Retro
- Japan
Thursday30th Apr 2026
News The C64 And ZX Spectrum Are Being Reimagined As Nintendo-Style Clamshell Handhelds
"Takes inspiration from some of the most successful gaming handhelds of the past"
- C64
- ZX Spectrum
- Emulation
- Emulation Handhelds
News You'll Soon Be Able To Play A Mega Man Classic On Your Wrist, Thanks To This New Gaming Watch
'Mega Man 2' joins the My Play Watch line of digital watches
- News
- Mega Man
- Merchandise
- Capcom
"Did the staff actually play these or what?"
- Sega
- Japan
- Sega Universe
News PopoloCrois Creator Yosuke Tamori Has Passsed Away At The Age Of 74
He died earlier this month
- PopoloCrois
Wednesday29th Apr 2026
Promises "top-tier image quality"
- Hardware
- Pixel FX
News Sounds Like Plaion Has Another Console In The Works Following The Neo Geo AES+
"I think the guys from Plaion are going to give us more joy"
- SNK
- Neo Geo
Game Changer ActRaiser - The SNES Classic That Signalled The Dawn Of A New Generation
God-tier
- Game Changer
- Features
- SNES
Which will you be playing?
- News
- Arcade Archives
- Console Archives
Carts? Hardware? Or something else?
- ZX Spectrum
- C64
- Blaze
- Emulation
"Studios [were] seeing what they [could] get away with"
- Interviews
- Books
- Aliens
Tuesday28th Apr 2026
Update: Pre-orders open today
- News
- Castlevania
- Game Boy
Say hello to the Commodore 64C Ultimate
- Commodore
- C64
- FPGA
News Xbox Continues To 'Actively Investigate' Issue With Backwards Compatible 360 Titles
Pure Xbox Update: Now fixed!
- Xbox
- Backwards Compatibility
- Xbox 360
- Xbox Series X
News How Xbox's "Hidden" USB Port Has Opened The Door For The Console's "Most Powerful Add-On"
"I’ve been keeping a secret for 5 years…"
- Xbox
- Modding
Talking Point Is Legend Of Zelda's Link Left Or Right-Handed? Let's Look At The Evidence
Nintendo Life Rightward Sword or A Left to the Past?
- Talking Point
- Features
- Nintendo
- Zelda
- Polls
"Elden Ring as it was originally intended... a 1989 Nintendo portable console"
- News
- FromSoftware
- Game & Watch
- Fan Projects
News "Wow, That Was Fast" - Hardcore RetroAchievements Support Comes To MiSTer FPGA
Update: NES 'hardcore' core support is here, other cores expected soon
- RetroAchievements
- FPGA
- MiSTer FPGA
"It's weak. Get out, do something"
- Call of Duty
- Movies
"Days of getting scolded by Sega-sama"
- Treasure
- Sega
- Guardian Heroes
News Struggling To Pre-Order The Neo Geo AES+ In North America? Plaion Is Working On It
"The short answer: your best bet at the moment is to pre-order at Amazon"
- Neo Geo
- SNK
Super Turrican (1993) & its Director's Cut on a single cartridge
- News
- SNES
- Factor 5
- Japan
News Shuhei Yoshida Reveals Resident Evil Almost Had Green Blood
(In Japan, at least)
- Resident Evil
- Shuhei Yoshida
Monday27th Apr 2026
"The creativity was still there at Rare"
- Rare
- Xbox
- Ed Fries
- Banjo-Kazooie
- Xbox 360
"'Well, we could be selling so much more if we were cross console'"
- Interviews
- Features
- Xbox
- Rare
Thanks to the fan translators Chapu & Etokapa
- News
- Fan Translations
- PS1
"There's more detail to the story than you can ever possibly absorb"
- Metal Gear
- David Hayter
Showcases the 'Super Enhancement Engine'
- Nintendo
- SNES
- Emulation
- ZSNES
Works with pretty much any Neo Geo system
- Neo Geo
- SNES
- Accessories
News Game Boy Color Spin-Off 'Mega Man Xtreme' Gets New Fan "Revamp," With A Range Of Cool Features
Including a "re-imagined story", "improved controls", & more!
- News
- Mega Man
- PC
- Fan Projects
News 25 Years After It Began, Langrisser III's Fan Translation Rises From The Dead
Better late than never
- Fan Translations
- Sega Saturn
- Langrisser
- Sega
Sunday26th Apr 2026
Poll Box Art Brawl: Yoshi's Universal Gravitation (GBA)
Nintendo Life Going Topsy-Turvy
- Features
- Polls
- Box Art Brawl
- GBA
Retro Recap All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (April 26th 2026)
R-Type! Punch-Out!! Sega! Nintendo in Brazil!
- Retro Recap
- Features
Saturday25th Apr 2026
Update: Release date is confirmed
- Atari ST
- Amiga
