Latest News - Page 3
Tuesday8th Apr 2025
News Magician's Apprentice Is A Forgotten Game For A Console That Never Existed
And it's now playable!
- Game Preservation
- Konix Multisystem
News A Treasure Trove Of Amazing Shenmue Artwork Has Just Been Preserved
Includes "400 original sketches, illustrations, 3D renders, and more"
- News
- Shenmue
- Sega
- Game Preservation
Monday7th Apr 2025
News The Genesis / Mega Drive Gets Its Own Operating System
A port of Fusix is in development
- Sega
- Homebrews
- Mega Drive
- Genesis
News "The Best Version Of WipEout To Date" Is Now Available On Sega Dreamcast
Update: Now available to download
- WipEout
- Dreamcast
- Homebrews
"I'll be 50 before we can do that here in the States"
- RetroTink
- Hardware
News We Have Shigeru Miyamoto To Thank For One Of The Best Versions Of Tetris
"Your secretaries and accountants are all playing at lunchtime and after work"
- Tetris
- Shigeru Miyamoto
News Yuzo Koshiro Explains What Inspired Him When Creating Streets Of Rage's Iconic Soundtrack
"The music itself was a message"
- Yuzo Koshiro
- Streets of Rage
- Music
- Mega Drive
News Microsoft Created A Demo Of Quake II Using AI, And It's Gone About As Well As You'd Expect
"What a fundamental misunderstanding of not only this tech but how games WORK"
- News
- Quake
- Microsoft
- AI
News Tower of Druaga's Japan-Exclusive SNES Sequel Has Just Got A Fan Translation
'The Blue Crystal Rod' is the fourth and final mainline entry in the 'Babylonian Castle Saga'
- News
- Namco
- SNES
- Fan Translations
News Tomb Raider Just Got A Brilliant New Proof-Of-Concept Demo For The Commodore Amiga
The Saturn & PlayStation classic comes to Amiga... kind of
- News
- Tomb Raider
- Amiga
- Fan Projects
Friday4th Apr 2025
News AYANEO's "Small, Yet Mighty" Pocket ACE Breaks Cover
Update: Video footage revealed
- AYANEO
- Emulation
"Of course SNK found some way to f**k that up"
- SNK
- Fatal Fury
News An Obscure Taiwanese Fighting Game For DOS Is Being Reborn On Sega Mega Drive / Genesis
Panda Entertainment's 1995 title gets a new 16-bit lease on life
- News
- Bleem
- Mega Drive
"The culprit was definitely that French person"
- Sega
- Atari
- Virtua Fighter
- Jaguar
News 23 Konami Mobile Games Have Just Been Saved, Including Gradius, Castlevania and Parodius Titles
Another huge win for keitai preservation!
- News
- Konami
- Game Preservation
News Polymega Gives An Update On Its Much-Delayed Light Gun
Final production units are apparently almost ready
- Polymega
- Emulation
News Ubisoft Leamington Has Officially Closed Its Doors, Ending Its 22-Year History
The studio was originally formed in 2002 as FreeStyleGames
- News
- Ubisoft
News New Book Pays Tribute To The Designer Of Some Of The Coolest Video Game Boxes Ever Seen
"A rare blend of art and mechanics"
- Books
Thursday3rd Apr 2025
News Nintendo Just Broke The Hearts Of GameCube Scalpers Everywhere With Switch 2
"It will no longer cost $500 to play Path of Radiance!"
- Nintendo
- Nintendo Switch 2
- GameCube
News PlayStation Is Using A "Cold Storage" Vault & Mineshafts To Save Its 30-Year History
200 million files and 650 TB have been preserved so far
- News
- Game Preservation
- PlayStation
News Katamari Damacy Game Has Got Its First All-New Entry In 8 Years, But There's A Catch
Katamari Rolling LIVE is an Apple Arcade exclusive
- News
- Katamari Damacy
- Namco
- Apple Arcade
News Konami Is Reviving A Long Forgotten DS & Game Boy Series For The Switch 2
'Survival Kids' debuted in 1999 on the Game Boy Color
- News
- Konami
- Switch 2
News Toaplan's Tiger-Heli Is Getting A New Port For The Atari 2600+ & Atari 7800+
Arriving this July!
- News
- Toaplan
- Atari
News You've "Probably Never Heard Of" BAFTA's Most Influential Video Game Of All Time, Says ITV News
Yu Suzuki's Shenmue takes the top spot
- BAFTA
- Shenmue
- Sega
News Another Legendary Tokyo Arcade Is Closing Its Doors
Nakano TRF will close for good on May 18th
- News
- Arcades
- Japan
Wednesday2nd Apr 2025
News Namco's 'Ridge Racer' Is Coming To Nintendo Switch 2 At Launch
Arrives this June
- News
- Arcade Archives
- Ridge Racer
- Namco
News GTA: Vice City Has Been Ported To Sega Dreamcast
Update: Now in beta, alongside GTA III
- Sega
- Dreamcast
- Homebrews
- GTA
News This Gorgeous Remake Of Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge Doesn't Exist
"Needless to say, these aren't real screenshots"
- Castlevania
News Developing Homebrew Games For Sega Saturn Just Got A Lot Easier
Saturn Ring Library goes live
- Sega
- SEGA Saturn
- Homebrews
News This Might Be The Only Working 'Galaxian 3: Attack Of The Zolgear' Cabinet In North America
"I’m very proud to have been part of the repair effort"
- Arcades
- Game Preservation
- Galaxian
News iPhone's Delta Emulator Has Just Got Online Play For Nintendo DS Games
You'll be able to play with real DS owners, too
- Nintendo
- Emulation
- iOS
- DS
News Street Fighter Creator Dishes On The Series's Origins In Newly Translated Interview
"I was just zoning out, thinking about random game ideas"
- News
- Street Fighter
- Capcom
- Arcades
Random This Rare Version Of Tetris Stumped The Tetris Company's Co-Founder
Tetris's "Minuet" for Game Boy was only ever released in Japan
- News
- Tetris
- Henk Rogers
News Hamster Is Bringing A Rare Arcade Version Of 'Assault' To Consoles
'Assault Plus' was originally released in 1988
- News
- Namco
- Arcade Archives
- PS4
News XeGrader Is A New MSX2 Game By M2 Staffer And Hydlide Creator Tokihiro Naito
Available to order now
- MSX. Homebrews
Tuesday1st Apr 2025
News Piko Is Using The Bleem Name To Crowdfund "The Ultimate Retro Platform"
Update: Campaign is now live
- Bleem
- Emulation
News Soon, Dead SNES Consoles Will Be Resurrected By FPGA Technology
We can rebuild him
- Nintendo
- SNES
- FPGA
News Recade Wants To Be Netflix For Arcade Games, But It Needs Your Help
"A platform dedicated to the arcade community"
- Arcades
- Recade
- Emulation
News "The Biggest Art Heist In History" - Castlevania Director Takes Aim At AI
"Millions of artists are being violated before everyone's eyes"
- Castlevania
News Billy Mitchell Has Won His Defamation Lawsuit Against The YouTuber Karl Jobst
Jobst has been ordered to pay over 350,000 Australian dollars (plus interest)
- News
- Billy Mitchell
News We Tried To Get To The Bottom Of Jet Force Gemini's Biggest Mystery
Our quest to track down the developers of Jet Force Gemini's cancelled Game Boy Color port
- News
- GBC
- Jet Force Gemini
- Cancelled
Interview "Let's Make Great F**cking Games" - The Legacy Of Monolith Productions
Monolith Productions co-founder Toby Gladwell reflects on the company's history
- Interviews
- Features
- Monolith Productions
News 20 Years After It Crashed And Burned, The Nokia N-Gage Is Getting A New Physical Release
Lowtek Games' Parasite Pack contains three games
- N-Gage
- Nokia
News This Year's Best April Fools' Prank Is A Croc C64 Text Adventure You Can Actually Play
A joke worth playing along with
- April Fools
- Croc
News Mean Machines Magazine Turns 35 This Year, And It Sounds Like Jaz Rignall Has Some Plans
"Watch this space..."
- Mean Machines
- Magazines
- Julian Rignall
Monday31st Mar 2025
News Attacking Retro Modders Is Not Cool, And It Needs To Stop
"I have no employees, I have no investors"
- Modding
News Evercade's First Neo Geo Products Are A Handheld And Game Collection Cartridge
Neo Geo Arcade 1 and a Neo Geo Super Pocket arrive this year
- Evercade
- SNK
- Neo Geo
News A New Fix Has Just Been Issued For A Problem Plaguing Metal Gear Solid 4 Emulation
Players no longer need the "freeze fix" Canary patch to prevent issues on RPCS3
- News
- Konami
- Metal Gear
- PS3
