Latest News - Page 2
Tuesday7th Jul 2026
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
Thursday2nd Jul 2026
"It's dragging along this dead body and it's going to slow them down"
- David Darling
- PlayStation
News Empire Interactive Withdraws From "3DO Project" Due To "Likelihood Of Prolonged Legal Disputes"
The company "did not anticipate such fragmentation of rights"
- News
- 3DO
News M2's 'Ganbare Goemon' Collection Hides A Never-Before-Ported Konami Shoot 'Em Up
Crisis Force released for the Nintendo Famicom in 1991
- News
- Konami
- Goemon
- Shmups
Coming this August!
- News
- Amiga
- Worms
Random Evercade Pokes Fun At Sony Killing Physical Media On PlayStation
"This is how you share a game..."
- Evercade
- PlayStation
- Random
"We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organisation to find a legal path"
- News
- VGHF
- Game Preservation
- ESA
Wednesday1st Jul 2026
News XBLA Version Of Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night Gets The Recompilation Treatment
Thanks to NocturneRecomp
- Recompilation
- Castlevania
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"
- Sony
- PS Vita
- PlayStation
Feature Thanks To These Upgrades, My Beloved Game Boy May Have Reached Its Final Form
And it only took 37 years!
- Features
- Nintendo
- Game Boy
- Modding
More people have weighed in on Işık Şekercigil's claims
- News
- 3DO
The "beta" version has just been released
- News
- VR
- Perfect Dark
- Rare
- PC
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
- Arcade Archives
- Console Archives
News Harvest Moon 64 Now Has A Native PC Port, With Mod Support
Boasts higher frame rates, quality-of-life mods, & more!
- News
- Harvest Moon
- N64
- PC
"Players can finally walk through the places the 1994 version could only imply"
- News
- Access Software
Tune in
- Croc
- Argonaut Games
Tuesday30th Jun 2026
"We aim to launch two types of hardware"
- 3DO
- Hardware
News Evercade's Next Two Carts Are Confirmed Following Leak
16 of Visco's arcade titles across two collections
- Evercade
- Visco
News Sega's Crazy Taxi Spins Its Wheels Thanks To Another GenAI Kerfuffle
This time over an air freshener, of all things
- Sega
- GenAI
- Crazy Taxi
- Merchandise
"I don't understand why you continue to use AI-generated video adverts"
- Commodore
- GenAI
- Callback 8020
News The Polymega App Now Lets You Play Your Digitised Retro Games On Steam Deck
Polymega Collection games work too, as well
- Polymega
- Emulation
- Steam Deck
"Hi Sandy, hope you're well"
- News
- id Software
- Doom
- Piracy
Monday29th Jun 2026
"Put your hands together if you wanna clap"
- News
- Nintendo
- Donkey Kong
- N64
- PC
