News "One Of The Rarest Video Games In History" Has Finally Been Preserved, And Here's Some Footage
Only a single copy of TRIPITAKA is known to exist
"I don't intend on having anyone tell me what to do on this one"
Update: Comes to Kickstarter this month
Graphics from the game 'Earthquake' recently recovered
News - June, 2025
Monday30th Jun 2025
News Namco's Air Combat 22 Is Coming To Arcade Archives On PS4, PS5, Switch And Xbox
Based on the 1995 arcade title
News Street Fighter's Worst Character Has Been Cast In The Upcoming Live-Action Movie
"My dad could beat you, and he's dead!"
News Evercade EXP-R And VS-R Refreshed With A New NES-Style Colour Scheme
"Available for the first time as just the hardware"
Thanks to Cybermind, TheMajinZenki, and company
News A New Fan Project Aims To Translate Taito's PS2 Remake Of 'Ys V' Into English
Arc System Works and Taito remade the Super Famicom action-RPG in 2006
News 'Nearly Complete' Prototype Of Cancelled Animaniacs GBA Game Surfaces Online
'Animaniacs: Hollywood Hypnotics' was in development in the early 2000s
Sunday29th Jun 2025
CIBSunday Panzer Dragoon Saga (Saturn)
"If you remember me, then you must also remember what you did"
Saturday28th Jun 2025
"Transcending history and the world..."
Friday27th Jun 2025
News More Amico Games Release On Switch & Steam, As The Company Still Insists Hardware Is The Goal
"We are actively progressing with our phased plan"
Review PowKiddy V90S - A GBA SP Lookalike That Won't Break The Bank
At just $50, this is well worth a look
News Bandai Namco Wants To "Preserve" Its History And Bring "Forgotten Games" Back To Life
"One of our goals is to bring those titles back to life"
News This Buffy The Vampire Slayer Xbox Exclusive Helped Shape God Of War And Reboot Killer Instinct
"Jaffe... had everybody sit down and play Buffy"
News Xak's Action RPG Spin-Off 'Fray' Is Getting An EGGCONSOLE Release for Switch
Again, there's no English translation sadly
"Right now, there are about four games in the queue ahead of it"
Thursday26th Jun 2025
News Super Smash Bros. Mod 'Smash Remix' Hits 2.0.0, Adds Crash Bandicoot, Peach, Lanky Kong, & More
The N64 classic gets even better
News The Indiegogo Campaign For The New Dreamcast Run 'N Gunner 'Sovietborgs' Is Now Live
Sovietborgs is also coming to Sega Mega Drive / Genesis, Neo Geo, & MS-DOS
"Double Helix got bought by Amazon and we couldn't work on anybody else's IP"
Interview Urban Strike's Agent Ego On EA, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, & Rebooting A Capcom Classic
"I could probably roll out of bed and sleepwalk through making a new Strike game"
News Jada Toys' Mega Man Wave 3 Is Finally Available To Pre-Order
The wave was first revealed back in 2023
News 50 Cent Appears To Confirm He's Balrog In The Upcoming Street Fighter Movie
Update: More potential casting news has been revealed
Wednesday25th Jun 2025
Michiru Yamane has been involved with the Castlevania series since 1994's Bloodlines
Review Gremlin Collection 2 (Evercade) - We Wanna Get Loaded And Have A Good Time
...so we'd better stick with Hogs of War
'Rockman The Puzzle Battle' & 'Galaga Kai'
Random I Was Pranked By These Metroid Barcode Battler Cards, And Now I Wish They Were Legit
Could Nintendo have made the system a global hit?
News Arcade Archives' Latest Rerelease Is An Old Taito Title From The Golden Age Of Arcades
Taito's 'Crazy Balloon' lands on Switch & PS4 this week
News Sega Teases Its New Store In Tokyo
Was confirm last year by the company's transmedia boss
Tuesday24th Jun 2025
News Duke Nukem Co-Creator Responds To Adi Shankar's Claim That His "Dirty" Duke Is "Now Canon"
"We've had nothing to do with Duke for over a decade"
News Yuzo Koshiro Wants To Work On Ys Again
"Ys... set me on the path to everything I’m doing now"
"We reached out separately to him to include his likeness"
News 'Final Fantasy Mystic Quest' Could Soon Be Playable On Your Sega Mega Drive / Genesis
Fans are currently working on a port of the SNES RPG
Monday23rd Jun 2025
Iida and producer Koji 'IGA' Igarashi speak in new interview
News Konami's NES Shmup Life Force / Salamander Has Been Ported To The SNES
No more slowdown or sprite flicker!
News This Mech-Based 3DO Adventure From The Studio Behind Clock Tower Is Now Available In English
A fan patch for the 1994 adventure game 'Belzerion' is now available
News Turrican's Amstrad CPC Port Has Just Got An Incredible 128K Remaster
'Turrican 128k' is now available to download
News A Rare 'Lost In Blue' Spin-Off For Japanese Flip Phones Has Just Been Preserved
Lost in Blue Mobile: Marina & Riku is an original game in the classic survival series
Sunday22nd Jun 2025
News Mario Kart 64 Has Been Ported To PC
Say hello to SpaghettiKart
Friday20th Jun 2025
"I don't intend on having anyone tell me what to do on this one"
News Developers Saddened By Beloved Adventure Game Site's Pivot Into World Of Online Gambling
"Enshittification destroys everything."
News You Can Now Play This Sunsoft Famicom Disk System Game In English For The First Time
Fans have released a new patch for 'Märchen Veil'
News The X68000 Z's Next Double Pack Combines Two Classics From Telenet Japan
Sol Feace & Valis II arrive this July
Thursday19th Jun 2025
News Shinobi: Art of Vengeance To Feature Music From Sonic Mania & Streets Of Rage Composers
Tee Lopes & Yuzo Koshiro join the fun!
News A Fan Translation Is In The Works For The Japan-Exclusive MSX2 RPG 'Burai'
A demo will be available later this year
Wednesday18th Jun 2025
News The BBC Has Republished One Of The Most Infamous Video Game Documentaries Ever Made
'Commercial Breaks: The Race For Santa’s Software' aired in 1984
Review Terrorbytes Is An Exceptional Horror Game Doc Packed With Extraordinary Interviews
Though the price may shock you!
News You Might Want To Download These Free Sega Games Before They Get Delisted
Crazy Taxi! Streets of Rage 2! Sonic CD! Virtua Tennis!
News This Week's Arcade Archives Release Is Another Deep Cut From Konami's Past
'Strategy X' heads to PS4 & Switch this week
News Digital Eclipse Sounds Keen On Doing A Sega Saturn Fighting Game Collection
"Virtua Fighters, Fighting Vipers, all that stuff... I think that would be really popular"
News Neo Geo And Data East Super Pocket Handhelds Hit With Small Delay
Will now launch next month
News Oops, Square No Longer Has The Source Code For Final Fantasy Tactics
"Keeping that kind of data wasn’t a normal thing to do at the time"
News This "Bonkers" Hidden Mini-Game In Shining The Holy Ark Is Finally Accessible
"The strangest hidden feature I’ve ever seen"
News Can Top Gear's Former Stig Beat The (Unofficial) OutRun World Record?
Ben Collins takes on 'Mr OutRun'
Tuesday17th Jun 2025
"The way the game is set up means that we can fully mod the game"
News You'll Soon Be Able To Play One Of The Most Obscure Final Fantasy Games In English
Final Fantasy Unlimited on PC released in 2003
"You simply cannot believe how excited I am"
News Digital Eclipse's Next Collection Focuses On The "Iconic" Golden Tee Arcade Series
"Golden Tee is a cultural phenomenon"
"Now there's a pullback, at least with the high-end graded stuff"
News Tenshi No Uta's Super Famicom Sequel Looks Like It's Getting An English-Language Release
The Japanese version will be released in physical form later this year
Monday16th Jun 2025
News It Looks Like Another Old Legacy Of Kain Title Is Being Reissued For PlayStation Consoles
Legacy of Kain: Defiance has been rated for PS5 & PS4
The threat of Generative AI is very real
News Here's Our First Look At Compile & M2's New Aleste / Zanac Crossover 'Zaleste'
Coming to Nintendo Switch, PS4, and PS5
News Two More Famicom Classics From Jaleco Are Heading To Switch
Saiyuuki World 2 & Rod Land announced!
News Want To Shape The Future Of Evercade? Make Sure You Take Part In This Survey
"Whether you're a casual fan or a dedicated collector, your opinions matter"
News G-Mode Announces Release Date For Armored Core Mobile 2, & Unveils Another New Archives+ Title
Exerion DX announced for G-Mode Archives+
Friday13th Jun 2025
"There is no way to make that make sense"
News Earthion Launches Next Month, Mega Drive Version Pushed Into 2026
Earthion 8BitDo M30 Gamepad also announced
"Some games were never meant to be translated..."
News Shuttered Wonder Woman Studio Once Pitched A Big Trouble In Little China Game
"I would probably pitch a different pantheon..."
Thursday12th Jun 2025
Graphics from the game 'Earthquake' recently recovered
News You Can Now Play Xanadu's Enhanced PC-98 Remake On Your Nintendo Switch
The "easy version" to be precise
News Ex-Metal Slug Devs Plan To Revive A Never-Released GBA RPG For The Nintendo Switch
Yokai Buster: Navinosuke will arrive in "early 2026"
Gallery Turning The Page On Sega Mega Drive/Genesis: Ultimate Works
An updated version of the 2014 classic
News Xbox 360 Run 'N Gunner Heavy Recoil Is Getting A Sega Mega Drive / Genesis Port
Update: The Kickstarter is now live
News This New Wing Commander Overhaul Mod Provides Some Much-Needed TLC To The Legendary Flight Sim
The Wing Commander AllTinker Overhaul Mod is here!
News Video Game History Foundation Shares New Archive Collection From Ex-Sega & Insomniac Artist
The 'Craig Stitt Art & Design Papers' are now available
News A Steam Version Of The PS2 Shmup 'Triggerheart Exelica Enhanced' Is On The Way
A Western release for Switch is also on the way
Wednesday11th Jun 2025
News Pre-Orders For Retroid's New Dual-Screen Add-On Are Now Open
Compatible with the Retroid Pocket 5, RP Mini, and RP 4 Pro
News OpenAI's ChatGPT Lost A Game Of Chess Against The 48-Year-Old Atari 2600
"ChatGPT got absolutely wrecked on the beginner level"
News A Jet Set Radio 25th Anniversary Event Is Being Held In LA, Starting This Week
Including DJ sets, Q&As, and more!
News The Composer Of Soul Blade's Iconic Opening Song Has Passed Away
Benten-Maru wrote the music to legendary theme song
News Atari Jaguar Has Come To Polymega, But Don't Dust Off Your Carts Just Yet
"Adventure" collection also announced
News "I Am Not Going To Pass The Baton To Anyone. I Would Rather Crush The Baton" Says Hideo Kojima
"I Don't Need To Give 'Hideo Kojima' To Anyone"
News The Creator Of Mega Man Launches New Online Blog 'Kitamura Blueprints'
The new Patreon blog focuses on design insights & slices of Mega Man history
News Break Nazi Spines In This Bizarre 2-Player Shooter, Coming To Arcade Archives This Week
Spinal Breakers arrives tomorrow on PS4 and Switch
Tuesday10th Jun 2025
News Quartet (No, Not That One) Is A JRPG Which Takes Direct Aim At Your Nostalgia Gland
A spiritual successor 2017's Shadows of Adam
News Please Find 22 Minutes To Watch This Video On The Genesis Of Sega's Virtua Fighter
Another classic video from Splash Wave
Tron 2.0 first released on PCs back in 2003
Monday9th Jun 2025
"It certainly sounds like something I would have written"
News Croc's Game Boy Color Debut Is Getting A Re-Release To Celebrate Its 25th Birthday
Quality-of-life improvements promised
News This Classic Ghostbusters Game Is Getting A Fan-Made Remaster
Coming to the C64 soon
News You Can Now Play This Sega Mega Drive Patlabor Game In English, Thanks To Fans
Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor: 98-Shiki Kidou Seyo! has been translated
Anniversary Killer7 Is 20 Years Old Today
"I went to see the devil, now it's your turn!"
Friday6th Jun 2025
Random This Decade-Old Nintendo Handheld Is Now Worth Almost As Much As A Switch 2
The New 3DS XL's price is only going one way, it seems
News A Build Of A Cancelled PS2 Duke Nukem Game From Rockstar Has Just Emerged Online
Duke Nukem D-Day was in development in the early 2000s
News Tatsujin Reveals New Info On Upcoming Shmup Revival 'Truxton Extreme', Including A PC Port
The game was first announced back in 2023 for PS5
We speak to Paul Docherty about his new film Heart of Neon
News Someone Is Trying To Resurrect PaRappa The Rapper 2's Modding Scene, But They Need Your Help
Poly has been working on a decompilation of the PS2 game for the past two years
Thursday5th Jun 2025
Update: Comes to Kickstarter this month
Random You Won't Believe How Perfect Ridge Racer's Working Title Was
Adds plenty of texture, you see?
News Fans Are Translating An Obscure PC-98 Sidescroller From Koei Based On Dante's Inferno
"It's a fascinating game that deserves more recognition"
News Onion Games' Stray Children Heading West In 2025, Adds New Platform
The game was originally released for Switch in Japan late last year
Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection announced!
News City Connection Reveals The Latest Jaleco NES Game To Sneak Out Of The Shadows Onto Switch
'The Last Ninja' is out today!
Wednesday4th Jun 2025
News "One Of The Rarest Video Games In History" Has Finally Been Preserved, And Here's Some Footage
Only a single copy of TRIPITAKA is known to exist
Update: Here's what it looks like in action
"A design that is restrictive and faithful to ’90s hardware"
News Anbernic's PSP Go Spiritual Successor, The RG Slide, Shown Running Wii And PS2 Games
Update: Anbernic shows it in action
The Making Of Ape Escape, Sony's Groundbreaking Platformer That Unlocked The DualShock's Potential
"Most of the CG designers were college students doing part-time work"
News Zombies Ate My Neighbors Gets A New Survival Mode Thanks To This Unofficial Patch
It's called 'Escape The House!'
News Ape Escape Composer Would Love To Work On A New Entry, But Thinks It Would Be "Difficult"
"I hope that a group can produce it someday"
Tuesday3rd Jun 2025
News WWF WrestleFest Is Being Rereleased In Home Arcade Cabinet Form Later This Year
Courtesy of Basic Fun!
Feature 'Sega's Switch' Lives On Thanks To This Absolutely Incredible Mod
Say hello to the Venus SUB 2020 kit, and its maker, Oleg Endo
News Fanmade Amiga Port Of SEGA Genesis Classic 'Phantasy Star 2' Gets Another Demo
Featuring a new town and two new dungeons
News This Nintendo 3DS Fanzine Is Utterly Adorable
"Hey! Let me tell you about my favourite 3DS games!"
News Nightmare Busters Rebirth May Be Getting A New Boss Designed By A Star Fox & F-Zero Legend
A new stretch goal has been added
Monday2nd Jun 2025
News After 27 Years, A Filmmaker Has Tracked Down The Prosthetic Used For Resident Evil 2's Cover
"I am super pleased to be able to share this"
News ThemSkates To Celebrate Jet Set Radio's 25th Anniversary With Stylish New Merch
Includes a Jet Set Radio-inspired pair of skates
Anniversary The Atari ST, Everyone's Second Favourite 16-bit Home Computer, Turns 40
ST fans of the world, unite
Review Anbernic RG557 - A Powerful Emulation Handheld With One Too Many Issues
How much power does $250 get you these days?
News A Rare Manga Spin-Off To One Of Hideo Kojima's Greatest Games Is Being Preserved Online By Fans
Act 1 of Osamu Kobayashi's 'Snatcher' is now online
News After Resurrecting Croc, Argonaut Hopes To Do The Same With Another Classic 3D Platformer
"One day we hope to do that"
News Unreleased Sega Naomi Version Of 'Pochi And Nyaa' Gets Ported To PC
...but you might want to grab it quickly
News It Looks Like We Could Be Getting A 'Snow Bros. Classic Collection' For PS5 & Switch
That's according to the ESRB
News Tempest-Inspired Tube Shooter 'Operius DX' Makes Its Debut On Nintendo Switch Today
Also available on Steam and itch
