Update: Claimant brands dawn raid "a Tier-1 governance scandal"
News Sega Accused Of Using Police To Recover Nintendo Dev Kits It Had "Negligently Disposed Of"
DSi, 2DS, 3DS, Wii and Wii U dev kits are all in the hands of the police
News The Atari Gamestation Go Launches Next Month, Costs $180 - And You Can Pre-Order It Now
Update: Pre-order links now live
"Without you, I was just like any other cliff. A dead end. No way forward"
Update: "We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused"
News - September, 2025
Tuesday30th Sep 2025
Random No, Ridge Racer's Reiko Nagase Isn't Based On The Man Who Created Her
"I didn't use my own face as a reference"
News Pre-Orders For Epic GBC SRPG 'Infinity' Go Live Today, And Yuzo Koshiro Is Involved
"I really love how it turned out!"
News Preservationist Digs Up Early Version Of Obscure Nintendo Fighting Game 'Joy Mech Fight'
The game was originally developed for the Famicom Disk System
Anniversary Mean Machines, The UK's Greatest Console Magazine, Turns 35 Today
"Brutally honest reviews, top-class tips, and close-to-the-knuckle humour"
News Fancy Making Apps For 8BitMods' Upcoming Dreamcast VMU Pro? Here's Your Chance
VMU Pro Store launches in November
Monday29th Sep 2025
"We respect hard-working artists & are adamantly opposed to AI-generate assets"
"It was tough at the beginning for sure"
Gallery You Can Now Own Silent Hill 2's Guilt-Drenched Antihero In Statue Form
"He’s lost, he’s broken, and he’s armed with a bloodied plank"
Saturday27th Sep 2025
News Here's Why Controllers Have 'A, B, X & Y' Buttons, And Not 'A, B, C & D'
It's all thanks to Nintendo
Friday26th Sep 2025
Say hello to the 'MegaWang 2000 Turbo Edition'
News 26 Years On, The Mystery Of Vandal Hearts II's Gradius Weapon Has Finally Been Solved
"It feels satisfying to finally put this decades-old mystery to bed"
News You'll Battle Over Land, Sea And Air In The Advance Wars-Inspired Tiny Metal 2
Confirmed for Steam in 2026
Thursday25th Sep 2025
Review Taito Arcade 1 (Evercade) - A Welcome Refresher On One Of Coin-Op Gaming's Greatest
There's more to Taito than Space Invaders
News After 35 Years, Sunsoft's PC Engine 'City Hunter' Game Is Being Revived For Modern Platforms
With an English localization!
News Remember Square's Einhänder? The Developer Behind Metal Crisis Certainly Does
Shmup shown off at SAGE '25
News Following Last Month's Mega LD News, NEC LD-ROM² Emulation Just Got A Major Breakthrough Too
Support is now available in Ares' nightly builds
Banshee's Last Cry was released in Japan back in 1994
Wednesday24th Sep 2025
'Dacholer' & 'Kick Boy' arrive tomorrow
News This New Pizza Tower, Antonblast & Sonic-Inspired Platformer Just Got Its First Demo
'Artius' was first announced back in March 2025
"We've seen that this work can go better than ours"
News Retro Fighters Has Gone Back To Where It Started With The Brawler64 Pro
Update: Crowdfunding is now live on Kickstarter
News City Connection Is Resurrecting A Classic R-Type Game Boy Color Game For Modern Platforms
'R-Type DX' is being resurrected later this year
News The Original Game Boy Color 'Rayman' Is Getting A Physical Re-Release
Complete with a new soundtrack
"We've got to put ourselves out there"
Rayman Lum'o'grams has a demo out now!
Tuesday23rd Sep 2025
Review The 2025 Evercade EXP-R And VS-R Models Please Me As A Nintendo Fan
Now you're playing with power
News Italian Museum Uncovers Blueprints To Historic Lost Sega Game From The 1970s
Heavyweight Champ was released by Sega in 1976
Feature Forget Nintendo Switch, You Probably Own A Great Way To Play Virtual Boy Games Already
...and you don't need to crane your neck!
"They said, 'We want to do Phoenix Wright'. I was like, 'Really? That's not a name'
Monday22nd Sep 2025
Update: "We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused"
News Mega SmartDrive Is "The Ultimate Accessory" For Your Genesis / Mega Drive
"Mega SmartDrive redefines the Megadrive gaming experience"
News Golden Axe Is Being Unofficially Ported To The Atari 2600
Based on the Master System version
And how it almost didn't happen...
News Dimitris 'Modern Vintage Gamer' Giannakis Leaves Limited Run Games To Join Digital Eclipse
"I'm excited to get locked into my new role"
News Core Design Legend Sarah Jane Avory Is Cooking Up Something Pretty Special For Spectrum Next
The unreleased C64 space trader Delphian is being revived
News "We're Building The Future Together" - Commodore Has Sold Over 10,000 C64 Ultimate Systems
Units are still available if you want one from the first batch
News Fundraiser Opens To Help 'Final Fight MD' And 'Driftin' Rage' Dev Mauro Xavier
"I wanted to do something for him"
Friday19th Sep 2025
News You Can Now Grab Two Of The Best Castlevania Games For Less Than $5 On PS4/PS5
Castlevania Requiem was released in 2018
"He brought a lot of people together and really loved retro games"
AYANEO claims the device will be able to emulate N64, PlayStation, & Sega Dreamcast games
News AYANEO Sneakily Unveiled Yet Another Retro Handheld During Its Pocket Air Mini Livestream
Here's our first pieces of information on the "High-Performance" 'Pocket S Mini'
The game features remakes of the two PSP strategy games
Thursday18th Sep 2025
News Indie Metroidvania 'Eternal Soul' Absolutely Nails That Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night Vibe
Explore Castle Lexington to discover your true power
News "Amiga Lives!" - Apollo A6000 Promises To Pick Up Where Commodore Left Off
"True greatness doesn't need to be big. It just needs to be bold"
News "We Were Blown Away" - Belfast's First Retro Arcade Opens Its Doors
Four years in the making
News Irem's Handheld Spin-Off To 'Undercover Cops' Is Now Available In English, Thanks To Fans
The board game RPG was released in 1993
The game company, that is - not the singer or the famous wrestler
Wednesday17th Sep 2025
"SEGA’s position amounts to accusing a charity of theft"
News Bitfunx GCMCE "Breaks The Limits" Of Your GameCube's Save Data Storage
More than you'd ever need!
"I heard Nakatsuji-san mutter, 'So that's Gunpei Yokoi...'"
"I felt such a strong respect for the original"
"The golden age of gaming has never smelled so good"
News Taito's Early Lemmings-Like Construction Game 'Steel Worker' Is Coming To Arcade Archives
Originally released in 1980
Tuesday16th Sep 2025
Update: Claimant brands dawn raid "a Tier-1 governance scandal"
News Four More Evercade Carts Are Being Removed From Circulation
"Legacy cartridges will remain on sale with retailers where stocks last"
News Well, That's Another Minor Duke Nukem Mystery Solved
"We were too busy doing our own thing which we were sure was awesome"
You've never seen the Mario brothers like this before
Was originally intended for the ZX Spectrum, C64 and Amstrad CPC
News Sunsoft Is Reviving One Of Its Classic Famicom Titles In The Form Of An Overcooked Clone
'Ripple Island: Kyle & Cal's Restaurant' announced for Japan
Monday15th Sep 2025
News Developer Of Saturn FPGA Core Refutes Claim It's 100% Hardware Accurate
"It's still far from complete accuracy"
News Castlevania-Inspired 'Spine Lasher' Is A "Megavania", Not A Metroidvania
"Inspired by NES classics, serving as a true homage to gaming in the 8-bit era"
The Making Of Tekken Advance, Namco's Unexpected GBA Conversion Of The Classic Fighting Game Series
"We really had to shorten the move list for Tekken Advance"
"Everyone's happy to work for the company"
News "You Still Can't Beat Me" - 100-Year-Old Grandma Plays Her Super Famicom Every Day
"I don't want to just sleep all the time"
News Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Atlantis Is Reimagined As A ZX Spectrum Text Adventure
"Of all the shops in Algeria and we had to walk into this one"
The "missing" second chapter in the Popolocrois series launched in Japan in 1998
News The DS-Inspired Adventure Game 'Detective Instinct' Hits Steam & Switch This November
For fans of Phoenix Wright & Hotel Dusk: Room 215
Saturday13th Sep 2025
News One Of The Virtual Boy Games Coming To Switch Is "Worth $10,000"
That's pretty good value for NSO subscribers, then
Friday12th Sep 2025
"Without you, I was just like any other cliff. A dead end. No way forward"
News "It Looks Beautiful" - FPGA PS1 'SuperStation One' Appears In The Flesh
Also shown running N64 games
News Tatsujin's Upcoming Shmup Revival 'Truxton Extreme' Is Getting A Team Mode
Update: A new co-op trailer has just been released
News Here Are The Best-Selling Dreamcast Games Of All Time (In The US)
The console launched 26 years ago this week in North America
"We did start working on a prototype for Bubsy 4D"
Thursday11th Sep 2025
News 'The Ark' Is An Alien-Inspired Point-And-Click Horror For Your Genesis / Mega Drive
In space, no one can hear you point-and-click
News Terraonion's Dreamcast Optical Drive Emulator MODE Gets Updated Ahead Of VMU Pro Release
Also compatible with the Saturn
'DoDonPachi DaiOuJou DX Reco.ver' was only available for a day
News Fan-Made Genesis Port Of Final Fight Might Get Support For Three Players
That's two more than the SNES version!
News "A Cult Classic Lives Again" - Here's Your Chance To Own The 'Darkstalkers' Soundtrack On Vinyl
Update: European shipping confirmed via Black Screen Records
News Here Are The Next Two PC-88 Titles Getting EGGCONSOLE Reissues On Nintendo Switch
'Crimson II' & 'Dai Dassou' are both coming to the Nintendo eShop
Wednesday10th Sep 2025
News This White Limited Edition Vectrex Mini Will Cost $250, Standard Model Starts At $115
Update: Kickstarter goes live in November
"They had an early draft of a Resident Evil movie from Romero, but it was not good"
News Crowdfunding For Open-Source FPGA Game Boy Clone 'Game Bub' Is Now Live
"The first fully open-source FPGA retro-emulation handheld"
"Every game doesn't need a remake"
News Nintendo Of America Didn't Think Pokémon "Was Going To Take Off In The US", And It Wasn't Alone
"We looked at it and said, 'We don't get it. We don't know what this is.'"
Feature "The Worst Console Of All Time" Turned 20 This Year – Is Gizmondo Worth A Look In 2025?
A $300 million black hole in handheld form
Talk to robots or conduct cruel experiments with electricity
Video Hustler arrives tomorrow!
Tuesday9th Sep 2025
"30- recounts the PS1’s journey to the top, blow by blow"
From its "reviled" Tomb Raider action figure to teaming up with Nintendo & Capcom
"We had so many other names that we were in love with"
Monday8th Sep 2025
News Sega Accused Of Using Police To Recover Nintendo Dev Kits It Had "Negligently Disposed Of"
DSi, 2DS, 3DS, Wii and Wii U dev kits are all in the hands of the police
News The Atari Gamestation Go Launches Next Month, Costs $180 - And You Can Pre-Order It Now
Update: Pre-order links now live
You can pre-order the KONKR Pocket Fit and KONKR Pocket Elite today
Leslie Swan's journey from Nintendo Power to Nintendo legend
News This "World First" Wireless Dreamcast Controller Has A Colour Screen
The Dream Color Plus will be shown off this month
News Decades After Being Canned, These NES And SNES Games Could Be Getting A Release
Defectors! (NES) and Warrior of Rome III (SNES) never saw release back in the day
News How Super Mario 64 Fixed Princess Peach's Ad-Agency Induced Naming Mishap
"It was my idea to say, 'Why don't we call her Princess Peach Toadstool?'"
News Limited Run Games CEO Obtains Rights To Several FMV Games By Night Trap Dev Digital Pictures
Including Maximum Surge, Prize Fighter, and Slam City With Scottie Pippin
Saturday6th Sep 2025
News "I Hope Elon Musk Never Googles Me, Because I'll Be Murdered", Says Deus Ex Co-Writer
"It's bizarre that Musk would not recognise where he sits in the Deus Ex universe"
Penned by GamesIndustry.biz veteran James Batchelor
The Making Of Geoff Crammond's Formula One Grand Prix Series
"The simulator had to be realistic but also drivable"
Friday5th Sep 2025
"Christopher Nolan wanted nothing to do with this game"
"I hope they have an option to switch back to the original sprites"
"I really wanted to lean into the pinball thing"
News Anbernic Is Taking On The AYANEO Pocket Air Mini With The RG476H
Bezel-free screen seems to be the selling point
News Retroid Has Pushed An OTA Fix For Its Dual-Screen Add-On's Recent Compatibility Issue
Update: It will now work with the Retroid Pocket 4 Pro, after all
News "Lost" Gradius Sequel Nemesis '90 Kai Is Getting A Reissue For The X68000 Z
Will be given away with a one-off issue of Oh!X
News WipEout's Getting Another Soundtrack This Year
Thanks to Tim "CoLD SToRAGE" Wright
Thursday4th Sep 2025
News Homebrew Coder Breaks Nintendo's Rules To Create The First Super Game Boy "Exclusive"
Say hello to 'DMG vs. Super Game Boy'
News Four Classic Final Fantasy Games Have Just Got The "DX" Treatment For Game Boy Color
Including Final Fantasy Legend I-III & Final Fantasy Adventure
News We Could Be Getting A New Version Of NES Cult Classic Shatterhand
Natsume Atari files trademark in Japan
News New Footage From Human Head Studio's Cancelled Prey 2 Briefly Surfaces Before Being Removed
Update: The videos have now been pulled
News Kazeta OS Turns Your PC Into A Streamlined Game Console
The perfect OS for "kids, parents, and grandparents who just want to play"
News The Nintendo DS Game 'Sonic Rush' Is Getting A Fanmade Reimagining For PC
A demo is expected to launch later this month
News Another Bomberman Game For Japanese Feature Phones Has Been Preserved
This time it's the turn of 2004's 'Bomberman 3D'
Wednesday3rd Sep 2025
Thanks to Japanese company Edia
News Following The Game Boy, Sega's Genesis / Mega Drive Is Getting The Lego Treatment Next
Update: Lego confirms the leak
Update: PAX West 2025 footage has us very excited
News Namco's 1995 Sequel To Numan Athletics Is Being Reissued On Consoles This Week
Including PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and Switch 2
News Koei's FM Towns Visual Novel Series 'EMIT' Gets English Language Patch
Series was designed to help Japanese gamers learn English
"We are working hard on solutions and new schedules"
News GBA Visual Novel 'Chobits: Atashi Dake No Hito' Has Been Translated Into English
Based on Clamp's manga series
Tuesday2nd Sep 2025
News "Rarest" Nintendo Famicom Game Found In US Retro Store For $12
"I cannot put into words how happy I am"
News Atari Boss Says "T-Shirts, Energy Drinks, Shoes And Headphones" Figure In Company's Future
Atari 2600+ is also an "evergreen project"
News "Life's Too Short, You Know?" - Atari's CEO Wants To Remaster Snatcher And Panzer Dragoon Saga
"I would love to work on one of those"
News "Today Is A Huge Day For The Dreamcast Homebrew Community"
After two years, DreamSDK gets an update
Review Polymega Collection Vol. 3 - Tiger-Heli - Five Of Toaplan's Finest
Tigers and sharks, living together
News Smash Bros. Modder Promotes Infamous Nintendo 'Cease And Desist' Letter To Playable Character
"See how much court fines you can stack up against your opponents"
News This Jaleco Arcade Game Is Finally Getting An NES Release, Over 30 Years Later
Soldam first released in arcades back in 1992
Monday1st Sep 2025
'Attic Archive' releases later this week
News Analogue's FPGA N64 Is Shown Running For The First Time
The Analogue 3D in action
News OutRun's Unofficial Game Boy Color Port Is Available Now, For Free
Update: "All the tracks - all the music - all the wind in your hair!"
News Atlus's "Lost" Mobile Spin-Off To The PS2 Title Stella Deus Is Coming To Steam & Switch
Stella Deus: The Black Gate was released in 2006
Anniversary Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Is 10 Years Old Today
"We are Diamond Dogs"
News Forgotten Worlds Issue Six Is All About Sega's Blue, Blue Skies
Interviews with Gary Cutlack, Dean Mortlock and Al Nilsen
Also features an exclusive 6" 120Hz FHD AMOLED screen
