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YesterdayThu, 8th Oct 2026
News Playdate Owners Urged To Update Firmware Before Certificate Expiration On October 15
Don't Panic
- Playdate
- Indies
Review Evercade Nexus - a Commendable Upgrade, but Bundling Banjo-Kazooie Is the True Masterstroke
Evercade's next evolution is here
- Reviews
- Evercade
- Hardware Reviews
- Emulation Handhelds
News Atari's 800XL Is The Next Hardware Revival From The Company Behind The Neo Geo AES+
Has a a full-sized mechanical keyboard and working cartridge slot
- Atari
- Plaion
News Times Square Decked Out With 'Life-Size Street Fighter Arcade' To Promote Upcoming Movie
Ryu and crew hit the big screen October 16
- Street Fighter
- Capcom
- Arcade
- Films
News SuperStation Creator Taki Udon Just Teased An FPGA SNES Console
'Don't worry, we have all regions covered'
- SNES
- Emulation
- FPGA
- Indies
News 1990 Bubble Bobble Clone Snow Bros. Is Getting a New Physical Famicom Release
Let's spin to SNOWBALL! 50 stages DEATH MATCH!
- Famicom
- Nes
The artist is officially unretired & available to work on new projects
- News
- Konami
- VGM
- Indies
Wednesday7th Oct 2026
"I said, 'Hey, bro, you know, it's all fun and games!"
- PlayStation
- PSP
- Shawn Layden
'When these are gone, they are gone'
- Emulation
- PlayStation
- Homebrews
"Any ethical hacker would recognise, 'Oh, this is some guy's project'"
- Features
- Decompilation
- PC
- N64
Design Room presents an oral history on a true uniquity
- Sony
- PS1
- PlayStation
- Music
- Japan
Well, the arcade version, at least!
- News
- SNK
- Arcade Archives
News New Footage From Xbox's Cancelled Perfect Dark Reboot Surfaces Online
Taking The Initiative
- Rare
- N64
- Perfect Dark
- Cancelled
The clock's tickin', dude
- Indies
- ZX Spectrum
- Homebrews
Tuesday6th Oct 2026
News SuperStation One's $20 Memory Card Goes on Sale Today, and Yes, It Plays DOOM
Runs on PS1 and PS2, as well
- PlayStation
- PS1
- SuperStation One
- PS2
- Taki Udon
"In North America, Japanese art styles like that just won't be accepted"
- Street Fighter
- Akira Yasuda
Got 500 hours to spare?
- PlayStation
- PS1
- RPGs
- Japan
- Modding
"I’m proud that we have got some of their tales down in print for posterity"
- Interviews
- Features
- Bitmap Books
- Books
News 1992's Ultra Gory PC-98 Horror Title Dead Of The Brain Is (Be)Heading To Steam
Rave from the Grave
- Steam
- PC
- PC-98
- PC Engine
- Indies
News DOOM On Vectrex Brings An Eerie Vector Beauty To The Legendary DOS Shooter
Grab your plastic overlays
- Doom
- Id Software
- Modding
- Vectrex
News The Blue Bomber Blasts Onto PICO-8 With New Mega Man Fan Game Kiloman
Super Fighting Robot tribute title now live
- Capcom
- Mega Man
- Fan Projects
- Homebrews
- PICO-8
News Kumagumi Is Releasing Halloween-Themed Metal Slug T-Shirts
"The fright is now"
- SNK
- Metal Slug
- Kumagumi
News Thalamus Reveals Cave Dave Physical Edition Artwork, Drawn By Veteran Rare Artist Wil Overton
Going Deeper Underground
- Game Boy Color
- Indies
- Rare
Monday5th Oct 2026
News Castlevania's Fanmade Sega Master System Port Just Keeps Getting Better and Better
Sega fans, be fang-ful
- Castlevania
- Sega
- Master System
News Dev Behind AI-Assisted Daytona USA PC Port Says They Didn't Intend To Hide Claude's Involvement
Update: "It is a very useful tool"
- Sega
- Emulation
- Game Preservation
- Arcade
News RetroAchievements Come To Original Hardware Thanks To This PS2 Software Plug-In
xeRAbora brings RetroAchievements to modded hardware for the first time
- RetroAchievements
- PS2
- PlayStation
"This is an incredible time to be alive for a creator"
- Features
- The Oliver Twins
- Dizzy
"Transforms the 1-player race view into a true fullscreen experience"
- ROM Hacks
- Mario Kart
- SNES
News "We Completely Shot Ourselves in the Foot" - the Vectrex Mini Just Got a Display Downgrade
"We know perfectly well that this is not what we originally announced"
- Vectrex
- Vectrex Mini
Gunbird, Samurai Aces, Strikers, and more
- Shmups
- TGS
- PS5
- Nintendo Switch 2
News Essencelord, A Brand New RPG For Game Boy Color, Is Now Crowdfunding On Kickstarter
You're a wizard, Marty Butterblatt Jr.
- Game Boy Color
- Kickstarter
- Indies
- Nintendo
Sunday4th Oct 2026
We take a look at the history of Bethesda's groundbreaking, yet flawed, RPG classic
- Features
- Elder Scrolls
- Bethesda
"It’s still one of my favourite career moments to this day"
- News
- Robin Williams
- Nintendo
- Zelda
- Commercials
Retro Recap All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (October 4th 2026)
Splatterhouse! Anbernic RG DS Plus! TMNT! Donkey Kong!
- Retro Recap
- Features
News Double Dragons Is An Unhinged Mashup of Kunio-kun, IK+, and... WWF Superstars
Hacksaw Jim Thuggin'
- Taito
- Arcade
- Fan projects
- Modding
Saturday3rd Oct 2026
News New Old Pixels Signs Deal With Microids To Bring 1989 Arcade Toki To Classic Platforms
Go Ape! Spit!
- Arcade
- Ports
News The Master System's Popularity In The UK Is Still Surprising Some People
Sega's 8-bit system outsold some pretty big names in the United Kingdom
- Sega
- UK
- Master System
Thin as a deck of cards, but more like the Joker than the Ace
- Reviews
- Hardware Reviews
Game Changer Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge - Where My Love For Konami's Legendary Series Began
You've got to start somewhere
- Features
- Game Changer
- Castlevania
- Retro Recap
- Game Boy
Gallery Unboxing Shinyuden's Vixen 357 - The Japanese SRPG Finally Comes To The West
Mech'in a right fuss
- Mega Drive
- Sega
- Gallery
- Features
Friday2nd Oct 2026
"Our belief that this would be like publishing an issue of a magazine was quite simply wrong."
- News
- EGM
- Kickstarter
"I knew I wouldn't be capable of doing it without tackling other smaller games first"
- Features
- Interviews
- Donkey Kong
- ROM Hacks
News New Book Celebrating 45 Years Of The ZX Spectrum Smashes Its Kickstarter Goal Day One
The Rubber-Keyed Wonder
- Zx Spectrum
- Books
- Kickstarter
Deadly fun!
- News
- Neo Geo
- PC
- Steam
- Kickstarter
Demon Slay-er
- SNES
- Fan Translastions
- Emulation
- Anime
Dead Man Dan returns when we need him most
- PlayStation
- Modding
- PC
- PS1
- Fan Projects
News Croc 2: Kingdom Of The Gobbos Remaster Hang-Glides Onto PC and Consoles This Month
Tipping the Scales
- Remasters
- Croc
- PlayStation
- PS1
News Taito's Nonsense Platformer Chack'n Pop Stretches Its Legs On The Console Archives
Long Fellow
- Taito
- Arcade
- Nintendo Switch 2
- PS5
