Site News Why We Won't Be Covering ModRetro Products Moving Forward
The 'Anduril Chromatic' is the final straw
News Basic Fun Has Acquired "Select Assets" Of Arcade1Up
Update: Intends to support existing products
News "They Lied" - New Research Casts Doubt On Analogue 3D Accuracy Claims
Is the Analogue 3D as accurate as the marketing suggests?
News Commodore International Says Commodore Industries Trademarks Are "Invalid"
"Our decision to pursue this legal action is not taken lightly"
Guide Best Tactical RPGs - 20 Turn-Based Strategy Classics You Should Play
One good turn deserves 19 more
News - December, 2025
Wednesday31st Dec 2025
Former Tectoy CEO Stefano Arnhold on the Master System, Mega Net, and more
James Mielke reflects on the Team Ninja creator who treated him as a brother
News Japan Dreamcast Exclusive 'Macross M3' Gets An English Translation
You can finally understand the story!
Tuesday30th Dec 2025
Leslie Swan's journey from Nintendo Power to Nintendo legend
"The Mega Drive is my favourite console of all time"
"Beautiful non-dopamine loop gameplay that is just pure joy"
Monday29th Dec 2025
"I’d get all excited just seeing something like 'syntax error' pop up on the screen"
"Most of the CG designers were college students doing part-time work"
News How The NES "Defined The Home Video Game Industry As We Know It"
VGHF's latest video celebrates 40 years of the NES
Sunday28th Dec 2025
Best Of 2025 Barcode Battler, The Early '90s Classic That's So Crap, It's Almost Cool
Get ready for some Commerce Conflict
Best Of 2025 Tomohiro Nishikado On Making 'Space Invaders' And What Makes Games Fun
"Younger people who want to make games should play really old games"
Saturday27th Dec 2025
Feature The Analogue 3D Is The Best Retro Hardware Of 2025
The N64 got an upgrade this year
Jerry Momoda on his journey from expert gamer to industry veteran
"I didn't know anything about what other people in the gaming industry were doing"
Friday26th Dec 2025
I thought, 'Damn, I think this is why ToeJam and Earl sprang into my brain 10 years later.'
"A number of overseas developers have said, 'We want you to make a [Segagaga] sequel'"
Thursday25th Dec 2025
"Our whole goal was to capture the sheer variety and texture that was in the Japanese script"
News Star Fox 64 Gets Another PC Recompilation Just In Time For Christmas
I CAN let you do that, Star Fox!
Wednesday24th Dec 2025
Guide Best Tactical RPGs - 20 Turn-Based Strategy Classics You Should Play
One good turn deserves 19 more
"Austin Powers...completely changed the perception of our game"
Best Of 2025 How A Cult Comic About A Samurai Rabbit Became A Classic Commodore 64 Game
"Stan's vision of people running at each other is fun but 'unique!'"
Tuesday23rd Dec 2025
News Zelda: Twilight Princess Has Been Decompiled
Paves the way for native ports to other platforms
We recently had the opportunity to chat with the influential artist
"Satoru Iwata wrote in his card, 'You know, Shigeru Miyamoto also likes Samba de Amigo'"
Retroid is the first to feel the pinch
Monday22nd Dec 2025
News You Can Now Use The Analogue Pocket To Dump Your Game Boy Cartridges
And preserve your save data, too
Best Of 2025 The Story Of Jet Set Radio's Unexpected Journey From Dreamcast To Game Boy Advance
"We ended up hacking the Dreamcast disc, because we couldn't get any actual assets."
"We paid special attention to the death scenes..."
News Saturn RPG 'Airs Adventure' Is Finally Playable In English
1996 game finally gets localised
News "Long Lost" Genesis Sequel To Pit Fighter Is Found, Thanks To The VGHF
Prototype dates back to April 1993
News Game Boy Title 'Ninja Gaiden Shadow' Is Getting The Unofficial DX Treatment
1991 action platformer gets a lick of paint
News Road Rash Is Getting A Spiritual Successor Called 'Bash Moto'
"One too many hits on your rider or bike may end your race"
Friday19th Dec 2025
Site News Why We Won't Be Covering ModRetro Products Moving Forward
The 'Anduril Chromatic' is the final straw
News "They Lied" - New Research Casts Doubt On Analogue 3D Accuracy Claims
Is the Analogue 3D as accurate as the marketing suggests?
And why developers probably shouldn't include them
News "He Will Be Missed By The Spectrum Community" - ByteDelight's Ben Versteeg Has Passed Away
"He was an absolute gentleman"
"The response to the software at the pre-order event was dismal"
News Romhack.ing's BlueSky Account Gets Suspended Over Cookie's Bustle English Patch
Update: "This action was taken by a copyright troll"
News Here's How To "Fix" Knuckles' Chaotix, One Of The Most Divisive Sonic Games Of All Time
"Rediscover this divisive game in a whole new light"
Thursday18th Dec 2025
Review Commodore 64 Ultimate - The Gold Standard Of Retro Computer Revivals
The '80s classic gets upgraded for the modern era
News Hamster Has Revealed The Identity Of Its 500th Arcade Archives Release
But don't get too excited!
"It has been a very long time since we communicated [about] the game"
News Julian "Jaz" Rignall Shows Off His Potential Successor To Mean Machines
Welcome to the 'Golden Age'
'Carbuncle Pi' was released in 1991
Gallery Opening Up Retro-Bit's Toaplan Shooter Collection 2 And Undeadline Re-Releases
More rare titles get a second lease of life
Wednesday17th Dec 2025
News 30 Years On, Namco's Smash Bros Precursor 'The Outfoxies' Is Finally Coming To Consoles
Joins the Arcade Archives range this week
And debunks a popular fan theory in the process
'Super Woden: Rally Edge' hits Steam on January 2026
News MicroProse Is Partnering With Geoff Crammond To Bring Back His Formula One Grand Prix Series
Now called "Geoff Crammond Racing"
Tuesday16th Dec 2025
News Basic Fun Has Acquired "Select Assets" Of Arcade1Up
Update: Intends to support existing products
Industry veteran Mike Fischer runs us through his years at Sega, Namco, & Xbox
Including The Flinstones & Garfield Caught In The Act: The Lost Levels
"He said to me, 'Why don't you just tell us to make porn?'"
A browser version is also now via Wavedash
News ActRaiser Was Originally Supposed To Be A Dragon Quest-Style JRPG
"He was heavily into Rockman at the time, which had a strong influence"
"We were trying to think dynamically on how we could make it more of a destination"
News The Sega Dreamcast Visual Novel 'Di Gi Charat Fantasy' Is Now Available In English
Thanks to a new fan translation patch
Monday15th Dec 2025
News "Lost" Space Harrier Sequel Planet Harriers Runs Great In This Updated Dreamcast Emulator
DEmul gets its first update in seven years
News One Of The Most Iconic Joysticks Of The '80s And '90s Is Being Revived
The Quickshot II makes a return next year
Featuring a new character called 'Ralle'
Takaya Imamura is the designer of Fox McCloud, Tingle, and Captain Falcon
News SNES Port Of The Much-Maligned Contra Force Is Now Playable
It's still in beta, however
Fehmi Atalar from Turkey faced off against Leo Soloranzo from Peru
News The Ninja JaJaMaru-kun Series Is Getting A New Game Next Year To Celebrate Its 40th Anniversary
JaJaMaru no Hyakki Yagyou Den was announced this past weekend
Friday12th Dec 2025
News Commodore International Says Commodore Industries Trademarks Are "Invalid"
"Our decision to pursue this legal action is not taken lightly"
News "THIS IS THE END" - The Man Behind The Infamous SuperSega Console Finally Admits Defeat
"SuperSega Is Officially Death [sic]"
News This New NES Game Mixes Arkanoid With Castlevania To Create A Genre We Didn't Know We Needed
"The Trial of Kharzoid is an Arkanoidvania"
News After Multiple Delays, Bitmap Bureau's New Terminator Game Is Finally Out Across Consoles & PC
Out now on PS5, PS4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC
News Here's Our First Look At The New Live-Action Street Fighter Film
The film is expected to hit cinemas in 2026
Thursday11th Dec 2025
Love Hina: Totsuzen no Engeji Happening came out in the year 2000
News The RG 477V Is Anbernic's "Strongest Vertical Retro Handheld" Yet
Borderless screen with 120Hz refresh rate
News After 34 Years, This Abandoned NES Game Is Finally Getting A Cartridge Release
With 100 percent of the profits going towards the Video Game History Foundation
News These Fan-Made WipEout Lego Sets Are Amazing, And You Can Build Them Yourself
AG-Systems, Van Uber and Tigron available for construction
The obscure piece of Breath of Fire history has now been preserved for the ages
News "Never Played A Game Like It Before" - John Romero's New FPS Isn't Dead, It's Just Smaller
"We're not starting at ground zero"
Can you spot all the references?
News Atari's Lost '80s Precursor To Beatmania Has Been Recovered
Jammin' prototype was discovered on old VAX backup tapes
Wednesday10th Dec 2025
News Three More Evercade Carts Are Being Retired Early Next Year
More carts are set to enter "legacy" status soon
“What if Symphony of the Night took place in Mexico?”
News 'Taito Milestones 4' Announced With A Lineup That Includes Arkanoid, Syvalion, & Cameltry
It will release next year, in March 2026
Konami's 'Roc 'N Rope' is coming to consoles this week
News ReStory Is A "Wholesome" New Game All About Fixing Busted Atari Consoles & Other Retro Tech
File this under "oddly satisfying"
News Nintendo Switch 2 Version Of 'The Rumble Fish 2' Announced, With A Brand New Mode
The announcement was made earlier today
Tuesday9th Dec 2025
News Abxylute's $70 Retro Gaming Handheld Runs Android And Linux
Powered by the Rockchip RK3566
In an effort to enhance "brand power"
News The "2-In-1" OneXPlayer Super X Looks Like An Emulation Powerhouse
With a price tag to match, of course
News Yuzo Koshiro's Failed Streets Of Rage 4 Pitch Was Inspired By Team Fortress Classic
"It didn’t get a good response from SOA"
The documentary aired last month in Japan
News Legendary M. Bison & Akuma Voice Actor Tomomichi Nishimura Has Passed Away, Aged 79
The actor passed away from unspecified illness on November 29th, 2025
Monday8th Dec 2025
Masakazu Sugimori created many of the game's most iconic tracks
News "We Believe This Is The Right Step" - Unofficial FPGA Sega Neptune Gets Pushed Into 2026
"Integrating these improvements will require additional development time"
News "Retrobrighting" Might Actually Cause More Harm Than Good To Your Yellowing Consoles
A 10-year study throws up some worrying results
News Analogue 3D Is Getting Some "Funtastic" Case Options
Guaranteed for Christmas
News Sorry Shenmue Fans, But That "Leaked" 'Shenmue 4' Trailer Isn't Real After All
Ys Net is considering taking "legal action" against its creator
News Hitoshi Sakimoto's 40-Year Career In Video Game Music Is Being Celebrated With A New Concert
"The composer will join us in person for this special evening"
Saturday6th Dec 2025
Friday5th Dec 2025
'Michigan: Report from Hell' first released in Japan back in 2004
News This One-Of-A-Kind Sonic Arcade Machine Could Fetch Over $50,000 At Auction
"A rare opportunity to secure a historically important piece of Sega’s arcade lineage"
News Bad Dudes Is Getting A Fan-Made Sega Genesis Port
Are you a bad enough dude to bring it to Sega?
Review The Llamasoft Collection (Evercade) - A Fascinating Dive Into Jeff Minter's Early Career
Camels most certainly included
News T&E Soft's MSX Shoot 'Em Up 'Super Laydock Mission Striker' Arrives On Switch Next Week
The MSX shooter is about to gets its console debut
Thursday4th Dec 2025
News Cancelled Splatterhouse RPG 'Splatter World' Is Now Playable In English
Update: Aeon Genesis' patch is now available
News This New Robin Hood Game For The Commodore 64 Looks Seriously Impressive
'Sherwood' is the new game from Psytronik Software and Griffinsoft
News Nightdive's Re-Remaster Of The 1997 PC Shooter 'Blood' Is Out Today On Consoles & PC
A Switch 2 version is also coming next year
Banjo Kazooie: Mumbomania is out now in Dreams
"This is one case where l did something smart that did work out"
Random Now You Can Smell As "Good" As Snake With These Official Metal Gear Solid Delta Toiletries
"Smooth, moisturised, and ready for your next mission"
Wednesday3rd Dec 2025
The Making Of Body Harvest - The N64 Cult Classic That Went Through Development Hell
Former DMA Design staffer Steve Hammond spills the beans
SNK's 'Bermuda Triangle' arrives tomorrow
"The deals they were offering just made absolutely no sense to me to go do this"
The document is believed to belong to Sakaguchi's 1984 ADV 'The Death Trap'
News It Looks Like Eidos-Montréal Cancelled A Legacy Of Kain Reboot
Along with a "sci-fi stealth game"
Tuesday2nd Dec 2025
News Time Is Running Out To Secure Your Vectrex Mini
Update: Kickstarter nears £1,000,000
Handles sprite scaling and rotation
"A return to big shooters is probably unlikely"
News N64 Cult Classic Body Harvest Is Now Available On Polymega
Along with A Boy And His Blob
News "AI Is Gonna Eventually Eat Itself... Like When We Fed Cows With Cows And Got Mad Cow Disease"
Rockstar founder Dan Houser talks AI
News "I Do Have Some Regrets" - How The Creator Of Counter-Strike Gave Up A Money-Making Behemoth
"We didn't understand the value"
Monday1st Dec 2025
Random Tommy Tallarico Got Bodied So Badly He's Now Using A Fake Name
Say hello to 'Sammy Salazar'
News Former Rare Designer Pranks Everyone With Doctored Fax From Miyamoto On Banjo-Tooie
Update: It was all a cheeky joke! Guffaw, etc
"People around me gradually began to see me as 'the guy who sings'"
A "first look" at the patch has just been released
News Secret Of Mana On PC Engine? It's Early Days, But Someone Is Trying To Make It Happen
Fan-made effort is looking promising, though
News Triple Threat Terror Is A Fusion Of Graphic Novel And Game Boy Grappler
"A special edition that fuses a physical comic book with a real, playable Game Boy cartridge"
Includes Zan II: Spirits, Zan III: Spirits, and Sangokushi Seishi: Tenbu Spirits
