Latest News - Page 6
Monday19th May 2025
News The Strong Museum Of Play Faced With a Half-Million-Dollar Shortfall Due To Budget Cuts
"We need your help now more than ever"
- The Strong Museum
Saturday17th May 2025
Feature Japan's Game Preservation Society Is Safe For Now, And It's All Thanks To You
A message from GPS founder Joseph Redon
- Game Preservation
- Game Preservation Society
- Features
Friday16th May 2025
News Sonic Wings Reunion Is Heading To Consoles In The West This October
Update: Red Art Games is attached to publish
- Aero Fighters
News "Saturn Is A Lot More Fun" - 1995 Trade Ad Shows Just How Rattled Sega Was About PlayStation
"Sony's got quite a bit of catching up to do"
- Sega
- SEGA Saturn
- PS1
- PlayStation
News Sega Saturn Is Getting A New Fan-Made Dragon Ball Fighter
And it's looking very promising indeed
- Homebrews
- SEGA Saturn
- Dragon Ball
News The Classic ZX Spectrum Series 'Magic Knight' Is Getting A New Reissue To Celebrate 40 Years
On tape, no less!
- News
- ZX Spectrum
- Crowdfunding
News Even More Toaplan Reissues Are On The Way To Consoles, And Are Now Confirmed For The West
Update: Toaplan Arcade Collection Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 will release this August in the West
- News
- Toaplan
- PS4
- PS5
Review Lunar Remastered Collection (Switch) - Two Must-Play JRPG Classics Get A Second Chance
To the moon and back
- Reviews
- Nintendo Switch
- Lunar
"I wanted to live in the meme moment, but I didn't get to"
- Metal Gear
- Music
American Oudan Ultra Quiz was released in 1992
- News
- SNES
- Fan Translations
News Strictly Limited Games Cancels Physical PS4 Release Of Parasol Stars & Spica Adventure
PS5 and Nintendo Switch releases will now be a 2-pack
- News
- Strictly Limited Games
- PS4
Thursday15th May 2025
News Namco's Unported Arcade Classic 'NebulasRay' Gets Its Console Debut And A Steep Price Point
On both Nintendo Switch & PS4
- News
- Arcade Archives
- Namco
- Nintendo Switch
News Treasure Trove Of Over 200 Undumped GBA, DS, DSi And 3DS Beta Carts Is At Risk
"We're hoping to at least be able to hand pick some carts"
- Game Preservation
- Nintendo
- GBA
- DS
News Fanmade Genesis / Mega Drive 'Metal Gear' Port Sneaks Out Of The Shadows
And you can download it now!
- Konami
- Metal Gear
- Sega
- Mega Drive
News 8BitMods' Dreamcast 'VMU Pro' Will Cost You £74.99 / $81.23 / €74.99
"The last VMU you'll ever need for your Dreamcast"
- Sega
- Dreamcast
News Rocket League-Esque 'Driving Strikers' Makes The Jump From Dreamcast To N64
You can download the game for free now from GitHub
- News
- Dreamcast
- N64
- Homebrews
Review Indie Heroes Collection 4 (Evercade) - Dig Dug & Bomberman Mash-Up Murtop Is The Highlight
Eleven "modern" retro titles included
- Reviews
- Evercade
We speak to Zork designer Dave Lebling about his most "disappointing" adventure
- Features
- Infocom
- Activision
- PC
News A Lost Mobile-Exclusive 'Mana' Game Has Just Been Partially Preserved
The trial version of Friends of Mana has successfully been dumped
- News
- Game Preservation
- Square Enix
Wednesday14th May 2025
News Polymega's Next Module Plays Atari 2600 And 7800 Games
Comes with the Polymega Pro Joystick
- Polymega
- Atari
News Please Don't Sleep On This Genesis Mecha Cult Classic, Now Available On Switch, PS4 And Xbox
Wolf Team's Final Zone is well worth a look
- Nintendo Switch
News Creator Of The Shmup Genre Sees "Bullet Hell" As A "Dead-End"
But he's a big fan of Radiant Silvergun and Ikaruga
- Tomohiro Nishikado
- Taito
Feature Tomohiro Nishikado On Making 'Space Invaders' And What Makes Games Fun
"Younger people who want to make games should play really old games"
- Features
- Interviews
- Tomohiro Nishikado
News You Can Only Hear This Mario 64 Sound If You Leave Your N64 Running For Over A Year
"We have unlocked a secret sound effect no one else has heard before"
- Nintendo
- N64
- Super Mario
News Saturn Port Of Dungeons & Dragons: Tower Of Doom Now Playable In English
No dice required
- Sega
- SEGA Saturn
- Fan Translations
News SNK Is Getting A New CEO Following Fatal Fury's Flop
Kenji Matsubara "will transition to an advisory role"
- SNK
News Creator Of Space Invaders Thinks Video Games Are Made The Wrong Way Today
"We, the game creators, were increasingly expected to listen to the sales team"
- Tomohiro Nishikado
- Space Invaders
John Mulaney will play Trip Hawkins
- Madden
- Movies
News Ultima VII Replacement Engine 'Exult' Just Got A Fantastic New Update
Includes new MIDI audio fixes and options, among other features
- News
- Ultima
- PC
- Android
Tuesday13th May 2025
News Hot On Diddy Kong's Tail, Mario Kart 64 Has Now Been Successfully Decompiled
Update: Actually, it's a "byte for byte" function match
- Nintendo
- N64
- Mario Kart
- Decompilation
Review ZPF (Mega Drive) - A Wild Fantasy Shmup That Lights Up Sega's 16-Bit System
The 68000's heart really is on fire
- Reviews
News Retro Fighters' PlayStation 'Defender' Controller Just Got An Impressive Upgrade
Update: The Kickstarter for the project is now live
- News
- Retro Fighters
- PS3
- PS2
News Mega Man Creator Reunites With Harumi Fujita For New Album 'Rockmama'
Donkey Kong Country composer David Wise is also collaborating on the album
- News
- VGM
- Mega Man
News GameCube Decompilation Kicks Off With Mario Party 4
The source code has now been reverse engineered to 99.8%
- News
- Mario
- Nintendo
- GameCube
News Monolith Almost Made A Horror Game For Nintendo's Ill-Fated 64DD Add-On
From the co-designer and lead programmer of Blood
- News
- Cancelled
- N64
- 64DD
News Legendary Pokémon Artist Mitsuhiro Arita Is Behind Earthion's Soaring Key Art
"Evokes the hand-drawn style of posters that once adorned the walls of game centers"
- Sega
- Mega Drive
- Pokemon
Monday12th May 2025
News Looks Like Another PS1 Classic Is Coming To Dreamcast
"This is how all great ports start out!"
- Dreamcast
- Sega
- PS1
News Data East's Terrible Mortal Kombat Clone 'Tattoo Assassins' Is Getting Revived
Coming to the exA-Arcadia arcade system
- Arcades
- exA-Arcadia
News 30 Years Ago, Sega Took Its Biggest Gamble With Saturn And Failed
"That’s not how you launch a system"
- Sega
- SEGA Saturn
- Anniversaries
News Telenet Shooting Collection's Second Volume Is Packed With Middling Quality PC Engine Shmups
Coming this August
- Nintendo
- Nintendo Switch
News Maverick's Baghdad Extraction Is A NES Zapper Game That's Been Called "Zelda With Guns"
"Engage in fast-paced shootouts against Saddam’s ruthless elite guards"
- Nintendo
- Homebrews
- Kickstarter
News GuliKit's Latest Controller Takes Inspiration From Sega Saturn
Shame it's not available in a six-button option, though
- Sega
- SEGA Saturn
- GuliKit
News In A Rare Piece Of Positive Games Media News, Giant Bomb Is Now Independent
"Giant Bomb has new owners, and you're looking at them"
- Industry
News Ape Escape Was Born Because "3D Games Offered Way Too Much Freedom"
"It became very easy for players to lose sight of what they should be doing"
- News
- PS1
- Ape Escape
- Sony
Friday9th May 2025
News Rare's Cancelled N64 Title Dinosaur Planet Is Getting The Recompilation Treatment
Native PC port on the horizon
- Rare
- Game Preservation
- N64
Feature This Retro Game Store Is So Good It Has Its Own Video Game
"People think it's cute that a retro store has its own retro game"
- Features
- Interviews
- Retail
- Game Boy
News You Know That Insanely Rare SpaceWorld 2000 GameCube? It's Now Up For Sale
Was previously listed on eBay for (checks notes) $100,000
- Nintendo
- GameCube
Feature Let's Pour One Out For The Dreamcast's Best Controller
(Well, if you like fighting games, at least)
- Features
- Sega
- Dreamcast
News 2025 World Video Game Hall Of Fame Inductees Are Confirmed, And One Might Surprise You
Everyone's favourite virtual pet makes the cut
- News
- Hall Of Fame
Thursday8th May 2025
News There's A New Sega Saturn Emulator On The Block
Ymir is already looking very promising
- Sega
- Emulation
- SEGA Saturn
