TodayThu, 23rd Jul 2026

• 

  News "If I Met Mario, What Would He Be Like?" - Super Mario Bros. Writer On Giving Nintendo's Most Famous Characters A Voice

  Phil Harnage shares some memories of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show!

  6

  • 5 hours ago
  • News
  • Mario
  • Nintendo
  • TV
• 

  News Shuhei Yoshida Thinks It Was "Actually A Good Thing" Sony Didn't Publish Dark Souls

  "I remember thinking, 'Man, this game is hard'"

  1

  • 6 hours ago
  • Shuhei Yoshida
  • PlayStation
• 

  News "Thanks For Sharing, But I Do Not Support GenAI" - Dev Behind Sonic And The Black Knight Recomp Corrects "AI Slop" Website

  "I have no connection to this article"

  11

  • 7 hours ago
  • PC
  • GenAI
  • Sonic
• 

  News "We're Taking You Closer To The Event Than Ever Before" - Early Conker & Banjo Footage Among Materials Preserved In New VGHF E3 Collections

  Take a step back in time to a time when E3 was king

  1

  • 8 hours ago
  • News
  • VGHF
  • E3
  • Game Preservation
• 

  News Here's Sega Rally Championship Running On The Nintendo 64

  Finish!

  8

  • 9 hours ago
  • N64
  • Sega Rally
  • Nintendo
  • Homebrews
• 

  News Donkey Kong Arcade LEGO Set Officially Revealed, Available August 2026

  Nintendo Life A legendary DK player has already put it to the test

  21

  • 4:30am
  • Donkey Kong
  • LEGO
  • Nintendo
  • Arcade

YesterdayWed, 22nd Jul 2026

• 

  News Hyperkin Is Re-Releasing Its 15-Year-Old Portable SNES In Two New Designs

  Crimson and Prime

  17

  • Yesterday, 4:45pm
  • Hyperkin
  • Nintendo
  • SNES
• 

  The Making Of Wizardry, The Landmark RPG That Inspired Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy

  "Technically, they owed us millions, but I think we ended up with a couple hundred thousand."

  10

  • Yesterday, 4:05pm
  • Features
  • The Making Of
  • RPGs
  • Wizardry
• 

  News "Relive The Pure Joy Of The 2D Golden Era" - Meet The RG SP, Anbernic's Latest GBA SP-Inspired Handheld

  Featuring a 3.4-inch 720 X 480 display & no sticks

  7

  • Yesterday, 12:30pm
  • News
  • Anbernic
  • Emulation Handhelds
• 

  News "This Is Real Progress" - Super Mario 64's 3DO Version Is Already Looking Significantly Less Cursed, Just One Week Later

  But still needs "some significant performance fixes"

  8

  • Yesterday, 3:30pm
  • News
  • 3DO
  • Mario
  • N64
• 

  News "This Project Is Not Vibe-Coded" - PS1 Recompilation Tool RecompOne Goes Live

  "AI can be a useful research tool, but it does not replace the human judgment"

  14

  • Yesterday, 1:15pm
  • Recompilation
  • PS1
  • PlayStation
• 

  News This Might Be The Closest We'll Get To Sega Rally On Genesis

  "Help, my Sega Mega Drive is out of control!"

  6

  • Yesterday, 1:30pm
  • Sega
  • Homebrews
  • Sega Rally
  • Mega Drive
• 

  Interview "I May Have Been The First Person To Ever Finish The Game" - The Real Story Behind Wizardry's Iconic Enemy, Murphy's Ghost

  "I was determined to get to the bottom of this dungeon and beat this game"

  3

  • Yesterday, 8:05pm
  • Features
  • Interviews
  • Wizardry
• 

  News "Deeply Meaningful" - Namco's Arcade Racer Armadillo Racing Is Getting Its First-Ever Console Release

  Arrives this week on Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, PS4, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S

  3

  • Yesterday, 12pm
  • News
  • Namco
  • Arcade Archives
  • Console Archives
• 

  News "A Misunderstanding" - It Seems The Quintet Fan Translation Drama May Have A Happy Ending, After All

  The two groups translating 'Brightis' now plan to build off each other's work

  11

  • Yesterday, 10:30am
  • News
  • Quintet
  • PS1
  • Fan Translation
• 

  News "I Don't Even Know What A Prompt Is" - Developer Behind Stunning Midway Wolf Unit FPGA Core Refutes AI Allegations

  "This is a complete fabrication"

  6

  • Yesterday, 11:30am
  • FPGA
  • MiSTer FPGA
  • Midway
  • Arcades
• 

  Random "That Would Be Wonderful" - Count Binface Wants To Reboot London's SegaWorld

  "Sonic The Hedgehog back in his prime"

  6

  • Yesterday, 9:45am
  • Random
  • Sega
  • SegaWorld
  • Sonic
  • UK
• 

  News Tomb Raider And Super Mario Come To The National Videogame Museum's 'Together We Play' Exhibition

  "Video games are now a huge global industry"

  0

  • Yesterday, 2:30pm
  • UK
  • Events
  • Super Mario
  • Tomb Raider
• 

  News Thin Ice Is A "Fun New Arcade Action Experience For The Commodore 64" From Ex-Gremlin & Core Design Devs

  Arrives digitally this week!

  1

  • Yesterday, 5pm
  • News
  • Gremlin
  • Core Design
  • C64

Tuesday21st Jul 2026

• 

  Guide Suit Up With Virtual-On, Sega's Mecha Masterpiece

  Attention, Cyber Troopers!

  11

  • Tue, 4pm
  • Guides
  • Virtual-On
• 

  News "What Passion Is There In Watching Everything Get Done Automatically?" - Final Fight MD Dev Opens Up On AI

  "Would there be any human soul in what was created?"

  15

  • Tue, 10:30am
  • GenAI
  • Homebrews
  • Sega
  • Mega Drive
• 

  News "I Can't Believe This Game Is Free" - Gradius And Thunder Force Collide In Doujin Shmup 'Spolous II'

  "One of the best Gradius clones I've ever played"

  2

  • Tue, 1pm
  • Homebrews
  • Gradius
  • Thunder Force
  • PC
• 

  News "A Game Changer" - Latest Analogue 3D Update Introduces Internal Graphical Upscaling

  "Enhances detail and clarity"

  5

  • Tue, 5:30pm
  • Analogue
  • Analogue 3D
  • N64
  • Nintendo
• 

  News "This Sucks Ass" - Mario Kart Wii Is Getting An AI-Assisted Recomp, And Some People Aren't Happy

  "The first static recompilation of a Wii game"

  23

  • Tue, 2pm
  • News
  • Mario Kart
  • Wii
  • Recompilation
• 

  News "The Original 3DO Programmers Deserve Serious Kudos" - This "Experiment" Is Bringing A Classic EA Racer To The Atari Jaguar

  The Need For Speed debuted on the 3DO in 1994

  4

  • Tue, 10am
  • News
  • Atari Jaguar
  • 3DO
• 

  News Following The Original Game, Star Fox 2 Has Also Been Updated To Take Advantage Of Super FX 3

  You'll need to use a nightly version of MesenCE, though

  6

  • Tue, 4:30pm
  • Star Fox
  • Super FX 3
  • SNES
  • Nintendo
• 

  News The Third Game In Square Enix's Full Metal Alchemist PS2 Trilogy Has Just Got A Fan Translation

  "Knowledge of the previous games is wholly unnecessary to enjoy the story"

  1

  • Tue, 3pm
  • News
  • Anime
  • PS2
  • Fan Translations
• 

  Anniversary The Game Boy Pocket Turns 30 Today

  Is that a Game Boy in your pocket?

  2

  • Tue, 11:30am
  • Anniversaries
  • Game Boy
  • Nintendo

Monday20th Jul 2026

• 

  Feature "We Wanted To Try Something Different" - Dungeon Lurker's Dev On Making A Game For A 32-Bit Console That Never Existed

  "Coming Summer 1996... Exclusively for the Eclipse System 32!"

  4

  • Mon 20th Jul 2026
  • Features
  • Interviews
  • Indies
  • Steam
• 

  Interview "It Has A Special Place In Hearts And Minds" - How The Bodice-Ripping Epic 'Defender Of The Crown' Is Getting Remastered For Its 40th Birthday

  "Our idea was to preserve the spirit"

  14

  • Mon 20th Jul 2026
  • Steam
  • PC
  • Interviews
  • Features
• 

  News Cannon Fodder & Broken Sword Devs To Collaborate On A New "16-Bit" Game For The Amiga & Sega Genesis

  Stoo Cambridge & Tony Warriner announce 'UrbX Warriors 16-bit Edition'

  4

  • Mon 20th Jul 2026
  • News
  • PC
  • Spectrum Next
  • Mega Drive
  • Amiga
• 

  News "Truly An Injustice" - Looks Like This Mischief Makers Recomp Is Another Vibe-Coded Disappointment

  "If you're going to shortcut it with AI, you might as well just go play the original"

  22

  • Mon 20th Jul 2026
  • GenAI
  • N64
  • Recompilation
• 

  News "Randy Is A Madman!" - SNES Star Fox Gets A Speed Boost Thanks To Super FX 3

  "The game is now able to hit the maximum 20fps far more often than before"

  8

  • Mon 20th Jul 2026
  • Nintendo
  • SNES
  • Star Fox
  • Super FX 3
  • ROM Hacks
• 

  News You Can Now Play Physical Discs On Your MiSTer FPGA

  PS1, Mega CD and TG-16 CD supported at present

  9

  • Mon 20th Jul 2026
  • MiSTer FPGA
  • FPGA
• 

  News The "Impossible" Dreamcast Core Comes To MiSTer, But It's Very Early Days

  "Alejandro must be spinning in his Lamborghini"

  6

  • Mon 20th Jul 2026
  • MiSTer FPGA
  • FPGA
  • Dreamcast
  • Sega
• 

  News SNES Save States Are Coming To Analogue Pocket

  Save the day!

  3

  • Mon 20th Jul 2026
  • Analogue
  • Analogue Pocket
  • FPGA
  • SNES
• 

  News Sega Universe Is Holding A 30th Anniversary Sakura Wars Event With The Series' Creator Next Month

  The event will include live music & food, inspired by classic Sega titles

  4

  • Mon 20th Jul 2026
  • News
  • SEGA
  • Japan
  • Sakura Wars

Sunday19th Jul 2026

• 

  Poll Box Art Brawl - Duel: Digimon World 4 (GameCube)

  Nintendo Life Brawlmon

  45

  • Sun 19th Jul 2026
  • Features
  • Polls
  • Box Art Brawl
  • GameCube

Friday17th Jul 2026

• 

  News One Year Later, Castlevania's Unofficial SNES Port Has Just Got A 16-Bit Makeover

  What do you make of the upgrade?

  9

  • Fri 17th Jul 2026
  • Nintendo
  • SNES
  • Castlevania
  • NES
  • Homebrews
• 

  News Look Familiar, Anyone? Here's Our First Image Of The KONKR Pocket Advance

  The KONKR Pocket Advance is "coming soon"

  11

  • Fri 17th Jul 2026
  • News
  • GBA
  • AYANEO
  • Emulation Handhelds
• 

  News This Cool Project Allows You To Emulate Old LCD Games, Including A Possible Nintendo First

  "As far as I know, this is the first Mini Classics game to be dumped."

  14

  • Fri 17th Jul 2026
  • News
  • Game & Watch
  • LCD Games
  • Game Preservation
• 

  News With The PS3 Store Facing Closure Next Year, RSPC3 Is Making Some Incredible Strides With Its Library

  "75% of all PlayStation 3 games are now PLAYABLE on PC!"

  11

  • Fri 17th Jul 2026
  • News
  • PS3
  • Emulation
• 

  News Remember WipEout 2048 On The PS Vita? Its Online Campaign Is Now Fully Revived

  All thanks to the AG Racing Foundation & its community

  2

  • Fri 17th Jul 2026
  • News
  • WipEout
  • PS Vita
  • Fan Projects
• 

  News More Toaplan Physical Collections Are Coming To Polymega, Based On Truxton, FixEight, & Snow Bros.

  Will you be tempted?

  4

  • Fri 17th Jul 2026
  • News
  • Polymega
  • Toaplan

Thursday16th Jul 2026

• 

  News A Legendary Japanese Game Dev Once Told Miyamoto Mario 64 Was Like "A Really Strict After-School Sports Club"

  Kenji Eno missed the "loose, free atmosphere" of the original Shoshinkai demo

  12

  • Thu 16th Jul 2026
  • News
  • Mario
  • N64
• 

  News Capcom's 'Midnight Wanderers' Is Being Ported To The Neo Geo, And There's A Demo Available

  Midnight Wanderers was originally included in the 'Three Wonders' arcade compilation

  7

  • Thu 16th Jul 2026
  • News
  • Neo Geo
  • Capcom
  • Ports
• 

  News DOOM Has Been Recognised As One Of "The Most Influential Works" Of American Culture

  Alongside 'The Star-Spangled Banner', 'Moby Dick', and 'Levi's Jeans'

  10

  • Thu 16th Jul 2026
  • News
  • DOOM
• 

  News "Not Everyone Was Brimming With Confidence" - Nintendo Legend Chip Tanaka Reflects On The Famicom's Uncertain Launch, 43 Years Later

  "There was no other path but this one."

  12

  • Thu 16th Jul 2026
  • News
  • Nintendo
  • Famicom
• 

  News Here's Our First Proper Footage Of Retroid's New 4:3 Handheld, The Retroid Pocket Nova

  We now have 10 videos showing the emulation handheld in action

  3

  • Thu 16th Jul 2026
  • News
  • Retroid
  • Emulation Handhelds
• 

  Gallery This 8BitDo Pad Is A Cool Reminder Of A Time When Xbox Wasn't A Mess

  Jade Empire

  8

  • Thu 16th Jul 2026
  • Xbox
  • Gallery
  • 8BitDo