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YesterdayFri, 10th Jul 2026
News The AYANEO Pocket Micro 2 Is Coming Back In Stock, Adds New 6GB + 128GB Stardust Purple Edition
Previously, only 100 units of the device were allocated overseas
- News
- AYANEO
- Emulation Handhelds
Random The Internet Is Going Crazy For This Early 2000s Activision Surfing Game
The people yearn for Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer
- Random
- News
- Activision
- Xbox
"We have absorbed rising costs for as long as possible, but this is no longer feasible"
- Evercade
News Retro Rail Go! Dev Removes AI Assets & Rebrands Following "Online Hate & Accusations"
Retro Rail Go! is now Retro Rail: Japan!
- News
- Indies
- Steam
- PC
Not so explosive, after all!
- News
- Metal Slug
- SNK
- Board Games
News Surprise! Retroid Is Offering Some Of Its Customers A RAM Upgrade Absolutely Free Of Charge
The upgrade affects outstanding orders for the Retroid Pocket 5 & the Flip 2
- News
- Retroid
- Emulation Handhelds
Update: Funding discussions are happening as we speak
- M2
- Hiroshi Iuchi
"The game isn’t over yet, and I hope the studio rallies through"
- id Software
- Xbox
- Microsoft
- John Carmack
Thursday9th Jul 2026
Chris Graue is back on his BS!
- News
- Game Boy
Feature I'm Really Not Sure How I Feel About Sony Killing Physical Media
Picking a side is easy, right?
- Features
- Sony
- PlayStation
"I might have been ready to die happy"
- PC
- Steam
- Hitoshi Sakimoto
News AYANEO's Next KONKR Handheld Aims To Channel The Spirit Of The Game Boy Advance
The KONKR Pocket Advance is "coming soon"
- News
- GBA
- AYANEO
- Emulation Handhelds
Random "Small Handheld. Big Ben" - Is This The Coolest Use Of The Playdate Yet?
"This is just not the kind of thing you visualise at the start of a project"
- Random
- News
- Playdate
Minicraft is available to download now
- News
- Minecraft
- Game Boy
Wednesday8th Jul 2026
'Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure' released in the US back in 2000
- News
- Console Archives
- PS1
News The Full Line-Ups For Jaleco Arcade Collection Vol.1 & Vol.2 Have Seemingly Been Revealed
Courtesy of the game's PS5 box art
- News
- Jaleco
- Arcades
- Steam
- PC
News Konami's Castlevania: Belmont's Curse Steelbook Reminds Me Why I Love Physical Gaming
I wanna get physical, let's get into physical
- Castlevania
- Konami
- Nintendo Switch
- PS5
News Lenovo Kills Controversial Emulation Handheld That Came Pre-Loaded With Nintendo And Sega ROMs
"The Lenovo G02 is officially dead"
- Lenovo
- Emulation
- Emulation Handhelds
Konami's 1987 'Hyper Crash' arrives on modern platforms this week
- News
- Konami
- Arcade Archives
"I’d rather be judged on that than on what went wrong getting here"
- Kickstarter
- Nobuo Uematsu
- Project Phoenix
Hands On This Power Bank Has Become A Daily Driver For My Switch, AYANEO And Steam Deck
The INIU P63 offers a massive 25,000mAh capacity
- Accessories
- Steam Deck
- Hands On
- Features
Tuesday7th Jul 2026
Super Mario Sunset arrives this month!
- News
- GameCube
- Wii
- Mario
News Sega Appears To Have Been Caught Using GenAI Again, This Time With Dreamcast Keychains
Slop detected
- GenAI
- Sega
- Dreamcast
News New Activision-Themed Super Pocket Handheld Announced
Comes with 34 games pre-installed
- Activision
- Super Pocket
- Emulation
- HyperMegaTech
- Evercade
Game originally hit store shelves in 1994
- Sega
- Nintendo
- SNES
- Mega Drive
News Germany's Largest Video Game Preservation Effort To End, Leaving Its Digital Archive In Peril
The decision to close came due to a "lack of necessary public support"
- News
- Game Preservation
- Germany
"Andreas will direct our growing European business footprint"
- Atari
Three more obscure titles now preserved & playable
- News
- Game Preservation
- Mobile
- Tales
"I’m thinking of everyone at id today"
- News
- Xbox
- Microsoft
- id Software
Monday6th Jul 2026
"It was too much for the specs we had available, and I think it was hard to play"
- Features
- Interviews
- Mario
- Hudson
- Nintendo
"I've been trying to put together a Mega CD translation project for a long time"
- News
- Fan Translations
- Mega CD
- Sega
News We've Had GBA, DS And PS Vita Clones, Now It's The Turn Of The Nintendo 2DS
Company is asking for feedback ahead of full production
- Emulation
- MagicX
- Nintendo
- 2DS
News "This Project Is Not Vibe-Coded" - Developer Behind PS1 Recompilation Tool Takes Aim At AI
"AI can be a useful research tool, but it does not replace the human judgment"
- Recompilation
- PS1
- PlayStation
"I'm happy to be away from the drama"
- Limited Run Games
- Josh Fairhurst
"This is my tentative first Super Play design"
- Super Play
- Magazines
- Wil Overton
- Metroid
- Nintendo
Sunday5th Jul 2026
News The Long-Lost 90's Arcade Racer Is Resurrected Within This Side-Scrolling Fighter
Overtake in Takeover 2
- Nicalis
Retro Recap All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (July 5th 2026)
Truxton Extreme! Game Boy mods! 3DO!
- Retro Recap
- Features
Saturday4th Jul 2026
News "I Almost Left Sony Over That One" - Meet The Unreleased PlayStation Pad With A PS1 Inside
"Sony licensing couldn't get their act together about the royalty terms"
- PlayStation
- Sony
- PS1
- Emulation
News AYANEO's NEXT 2 Is Back Up For Pre-Order, Tops Out At (Reads Notes) $5,299
Update: Only the $3,699 64GB / 1TB option is currently available, though
- AYANEO
- Emulation
"The biggest moment in Commodore's modern history"
- Commodore
- Callback 8020
Retail Therapy Trawling South Africa's Retro Gaming Stores
...plus some others, for good measure
- Features
- Retail Therapy
- South Africa
Friday3rd Jul 2026
Random "This Is Cringeworthy" - Commodore's Callback 8020 Holster Gets Ridiculed By Fans
"MY WIFE WOULD DIVORCE ME ON THE SPOT"
- Commodore
- Random
- Callback 8020
Music to my ears!
- News
- VGM
- Yoko Shimomura
News Limited Run's Co-Founder Once Had Aspirations To Make A "Physically-Focused Platform"
"I never made much progress on this idea"
- Limited Run Games
- Josh Fairhurst
Extreme, close up
- Hands On
- Features
- Truxton
- Nintendo Switch
- PS5
News A Musical Treat Isn't The Only Secret Hiding Inside Banjo Kazooie's New Handheld Edition
A new cheat code has also been discovered
- News
- N64
- Banjo-Kazooie
- VGM
News Physical Media Is Precious, And This Open-Source Gizmo Can Help You Restore Yours
"My birthday gift to the community"
- Game Preservation
News "Extremely Disappointing" - Are AI-Generated FPGA Cores The Future, Or The Death Of Accuracy?
"Don't like it, don't use it"
- GenAI
- FPGA
- MiSTer FPGA
News Wizardry & Final Fantasy Are Set To Collide In A New Collaboration Event Later This Year
Coming this summer!
- News
- Wizardry
- Final Fantasy
I am once again asking you to read 'Doom Guy - Life in First Person'
- News
- Doom
- id Software
- John Romero
