News SuperStation One's Delayed 'Console Mode' Is Available Now
Update: "We delayed this release from last month until today to fix issues and to cook"
Kenji Eno missed the "loose, free atmosphere" of the original Shoshinkai demo
News - July, 2026
Friday31st Jul 2026
"Something was strange about these cartridges"
Hands On Taki Udon's Console Mode Finally Gives MiSTer FPGA the Accessibility I've Always Craved
Works on both MiSTer and SuperStation One
For fans who like "methodical party-building, careful mapping, & turn-based combat"
Arrives on Nintendo Switch & PS4/PS5 next month
News 8 Years After Its Original Release, Lumines Remastered Is Now Available On Android & iOS
"The classic audio-visual puzzle sensation, now in your pocket."
Thursday30th Jul 2026
Tatsumi's 1983 racer 'TX-1' joins Arcade Archives today
News Don't Worry, The Neo Geo AES+ Hasn't Been Delayed
Unconnected delay causes confusion
"The guys that came up with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles pitched Andy first"
'Thimbleweed Park 2' is coming in early 2028
News A New Fan Translation Has Just Dropped For The Casio Loopy Title 'I Want a Room in Loopy Town!'
Human translated, but Claude code was used to "decode" the Loopy's Hitachi SH-1
Wednesday29th Jul 2026
News SuperStation One's Delayed 'Console Mode' Is Available Now
Update: "We delayed this release from last month until today to fix issues and to cook"
News Dev Behind Super Mario 64's AI-Assisted 3DO And Saturn Ports Is Doing It "For Fun"
Update: "[I] completely respect the geniuses that feel their work is being devalued"
News Japan-Exclusive Genesis RPG 'Surging Aura' Has Finally Been Translated Into English And Korean
Patch also fixes a key bug from the original game
Teases a deluxe physical version of new Monty Mole adventure "Dreamtime Monty"
"This project is an experiment to answer that question"
Tuesday28th Jul 2026
"Turns the platform into a second class MAME"
News Magic: The Gathering On Dreamcast Gets A (Slightly) AI-Assisted English Translation
"I did NOT use AI to translate any text"
"An extremely shady site and developers need to be aware of this"
"The level of interest and support we have received has far exceeded my expectations"
News Atari & Twin Galaxies Are Teaming Up To Launch A New Atari World Championship
"Bringing the original, retro spirit and arcade energy of competitive gaming back"
Monday27th Jul 2026
"Look at Final Fantasy VI; it’s such an incredibly huge game."
"We're pushing hard to keep Pocket Nova's price stable"
News Fans Are Convinced This Wolfenstein Game Is Getting A Remaster
Wolfenstein (2009) was delisted from Steam in 2014
Sunday26th Jul 2026
Retro Recap All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (July 26th 2026)
Sega Rally! Atari movies! Anbernoic RG SP! Wizardry!
Saturday25th Jul 2026
"That was really a changing point at the company"
Friday24th Jul 2026
News Sega CD Shown Running On The Analogue Pocket
There's still work to be done, but a release is coming "soon"
Poll Did You Know About The Secret Shop In Zelda: Oracle Of Seasons / Ages?
You'll need a GBA to see it
News The Sega Dreamcast Is Getting A New Resident Evil & D2-Esque Survival Horror Game
White Creek is a new game from Storybird Studio
Do we really need an Asteroids movie? Apparently, yes!
News "Ready Gamers?" - Sega Has Announced Plans To Open Another Store In Osaka
This will be the company's fourth official store in Asia
Thursday23rd Jul 2026
"I have no connection to this article"
News Shuhei Yoshida Thinks It Was "Actually A Good Thing" Sony Didn't Publish Dark Souls
"I remember thinking, 'Man, this game is hard'"
Take a step back in time to a time when E3 was king
Wednesday22nd Jul 2026
The Making Of Wizardry, The Landmark RPG That Inspired Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy
"Technically, they owed us millions, but I think we ended up with a couple hundred thousand."
News This Might Be The Closest We'll Get To Sega Rally On Genesis
"Help, my Sega Mega Drive is out of control!"
News "This Project Is Not Vibe-Coded" - PS1 Recompilation Tool RecompOne Goes Live
"AI can be a useful research tool, but it does not replace the human judgment"
"I was determined to get to the bottom of this dungeon and beat this game"
Arrives this week on Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, PS4, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S
The two groups translating 'Brightis' now plan to build off each other's work
"Video games are now a huge global industry"
Tuesday21st Jul 2026
Guide Suit Up With Virtual-On, Sega's Mecha Masterpiece
Attention, Cyber Troopers!
"Would there be any human soul in what was created?"
"One of the best Gradius clones I've ever played"
News "A Game Changer" - Latest Analogue 3D Update Introduces Internal Graphical Upscaling
"Enhances detail and clarity"
"The first static recompilation of a Wii game"
The Need For Speed debuted on the 3DO in 1994
News Following The Original Game, Star Fox 2 Has Also Been Updated To Take Advantage Of Super FX 3
You'll need to use a nightly version of MesenCE, though
News The Third Game In Square Enix's Full Metal Alchemist PS2 Trilogy Has Just Got A Fan Translation
"Knowledge of the previous games is wholly unnecessary to enjoy the story"
Anniversary The Game Boy Pocket Turns 30 Today
Is that a Game Boy in your pocket?
Monday20th Jul 2026
"Coming Summer 1996... Exclusively for the Eclipse System 32!"
"If you're going to shortcut it with AI, you might as well just go play the original"
News You Can Now Play Physical Discs On Your MiSTer FPGA
PS1, Mega CD and TG-16 CD supported at present
News "Randy Is A Madman!" - SNES Star Fox Gets A Speed Boost Thanks To Super FX 3
"The game is now able to hit the maximum 20fps far more often than before"
News The "Impossible" Dreamcast Core Comes To MiSTer, But It's Very Early Days
"Alejandro must be spinning in his Lamborghini"
The event will include live music & food, inspired by classic Sega titles
Friday17th Jul 2026
News One Year Later, Castlevania's Unofficial SNES Port Has Just Got A 16-Bit Makeover
What do you make of the upgrade?
News This Cool Project Allows You To Emulate Old LCD Games, Including A Possible Nintendo First
"As far as I know, this is the first Mini Classics game to be dumped."
"75% of all PlayStation 3 games are now PLAYABLE on PC!"
News Remember WipEout 2048 On The PS Vita? Its Online Campaign Is Now Fully Revived
All thanks to the AG Racing Foundation & its community
Thursday16th Jul 2026
Kenji Eno missed the "loose, free atmosphere" of the original Shoshinkai demo
News DOOM Has Been Recognised As One Of "The Most Influential Works" Of American Culture
Alongside 'The Star-Spangled Banner', 'Moby Dick', and 'Levi's Jeans'
"There was no other path but this one."
News Here's Our First Proper Footage Of Retroid's New 4:3 Handheld, The Retroid Pocket Nova
We now have 10 videos showing the emulation handheld in action
Wednesday15th Jul 2026
'Hercules no eikou II Taitan no metsubou' is also coming to Console Archives
"Nobody wants to take a risk on unicorn ballet in space"
"You told me when I was good, and you told me when I wasn’t so good"
Tuesday14th Jul 2026
"There really needs to be continued pushback on this kind of methodology."
"You don't gotta catch 'em all!"
"These discs were not burned with a CD writer, these discs were pressed in a factory"
Monday13th Jul 2026
"Going forward, we will review and strengthen our process for evaluating future sponsors"
Guide An Introduction To Another Century's Episode, FromSoftware's A.C.E. In The Hole
You should "mecha" dash for this series
Includes online play, widescreen support, and smoother frame rates
News One Of The World's Most Obscure Consoles Just Got Its Own Version Of DOOM
"An obscure Japanese game console made for little girls finally gets DOOM!"
News Nintendo's Next Official LEGO Set Could Be Based On Donkey Kong's Arcade Debut
That's according to a new leak
Sunday12th Jul 2026
Retro Recap All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (July 12th 2026)
Super Mario Bros. Special! Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure! Evercade price hike!
Friday10th Jul 2026
Update: Funding discussions are happening as we speak
Random The Internet Is Going Crazy For This Early 2000s Activision Surfing Game
The people yearn for Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer
"We have absorbed rising costs for as long as possible, but this is no longer feasible"
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 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
"The game isn’t over yet, and I hope the studio rallies through"
Thursday9th Jul 2026
Chris Graue is back on his BS!
Feature I'm Really Not Sure How I Feel About Sony Killing Physical Media
Picking a side is easy, right?
"I might have been ready to die happy"
Minicraft is available to download now
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"
Wednesday8th Jul 2026
'Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure' released in the US back in 2000
News Konami's Castlevania: Belmont's Curse Steelbook Reminds Me Why I Love Physical Gaming
I wanna get physical, let's get into physical
News Lenovo Kills Controversial Emulation Handheld That Came Pre-Loaded With Nintendo And Sega ROMs
"The Lenovo G02 is officially dead"
Konami's 1987 'Hyper Crash' arrives on modern platforms this week
"I’d rather be judged on that than on what went wrong getting here"
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
Tuesday7th Jul 2026
News New Activision-Themed Super Pocket Handheld Announced
Comes with 34 games pre-installed
Game originally hit store shelves in 1994
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"
"Andreas will direct our growing European business footprint"
Three more obscure titles now preserved & playable
Monday6th Jul 2026
"It was too much for the specs we had available, and I think it was hard to play"
"I've been trying to put together a Mega CD translation project for a long time"
"I'm happy to be away from the drama"
"This is my tentative first Super Play design"
Sunday5th Jul 2026
News The Long-Lost 90's Arcade Racer Is Resurrected Within This Side-Scrolling Fighter
Overtake in Takeover 2
Retro Recap All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (July 5th 2026)
Truxton Extreme! Game Boy mods! 3DO!
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"
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
"The biggest moment in Commodore's modern history"
Retail Therapy Trawling South Africa's Retro Gaming Stores
...plus some others, for good measure
Friday3rd Jul 2026
Random "This Is Cringeworthy" - Commodore's Callback 8020 Holster Gets Ridiculed By Fans
"MY WIFE WOULD DIVORCE ME ON THE SPOT"
News Limited Run's Co-Founder Once Had Aspirations To Make A "Physically-Focused Platform"
"I never made much progress on this idea"
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 "Extremely Disappointing" - Are AI-Generated FPGA Cores The Future, Or The Death Of Accuracy?
"Don't like it, don't use it"
News Physical Media Is Precious, And This Open-Source Gizmo Can Help You Restore Yours
"My birthday gift to the community"
I am once again asking you to read 'Doom Guy - Life in First Person'
Thursday2nd Jul 2026
"It's dragging along this dead body and it's going to slow them down"
News Empire Interactive Withdraws From "3DO Project" Due To "Likelihood Of Prolonged Legal Disputes"
The company "did not anticipate such fragmentation of rights"
Random Evercade Pokes Fun At Sony Killing Physical Media On PlayStation
"This is how you share a game..."
"We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organisation to find a legal path"
Wednesday1st Jul 2026
News "Instead Of The Vita, We Should've Made PSP 2" - Shawn Layden Sticks It To Sony's Last Handheld
"One more analog stick. That's all we needed"
More people have weighed in on Işık Şekercigil's claims
The "beta" version has just been released
News Sunsoft's Cult Classic PS1 Game 'Hard Edge / T.R.A.G' Is Coming To Modern Consoles This Week
Universal's 1981 title 'Lady Bug' is also joining the Arcade Archives library
News Harvest Moon 64 Now Has A Native PC Port, With Mod Support
Boasts higher frame rates, quality-of-life mods, & more!
"Players can finally walk through the places the 1994 version could only imply"
