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Wednesday14th May 2025
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
News Fallout 1 & 2's Source Code Isn't Lost After All
"When I left, I kept EVERYTHING"
- Fallout
- Game Preservation
- PC
News 'From Joysticks To Haptics' Offers A Visual History of Video Game Controllers
New book from Lost in Cult arrives in July
- Lost in Cult
- Books
News Dangerous Demolition Mashes Breakout With A Top-Down Shooter, And It's Coming To Game Gear
"Leo, the name that resonates in the world of demolition"
- Sega
- Game Gear
Wednesday7th May 2025
News Yuzo Koshiro's Earthion Confirmed For Switch, PS4, PS5 And Xbox Series X/S
Update: Steam page now live, so get wishlisting!
- Yuzo Koshiro
- Earthion
News Chronicles Of The Wolf Delivers Castlevania Vibes This June, Complete With The Voice Of Alucard
Steam demo now available
- Castlevania
News Dreamcast's Aero Dancing Series Takes To The Skies Once More, Thanks To Fans
Trio of games is back online
- Dreamcast
- Modding
Review Farming Simulator 16-Bit Edition (Mega Drive) - From Little Acorns
...you know the rest
- Reviews
- Sega
- Mega Drive
News Capcom Is Keen To Make More Of Its Fighting Games Available On Modern Systems
"We want to offer an environment for you to play them"
- Capcom
"We want to deliver a fantastic fighting game for Lynx fans"
- Atari Lynx
News Konami's Violent Basketball Title 'Punk Shot' Is This Week's Arcade Archives Release
Do you feel lucky?
- Arcade Archives
- Konami
Tuesday6th May 2025
News A Japan-Exclusive Puyo Puyo Dungeon Crawler For Saturn Has Just Received A Fan Translation
Waku Waku Puyo Puyo Dungeon was originally released in 1998
- News
- Fan Translations
- Puyo Puyo
- SEGA Saturn
News Ex-PlayStation President Claims To Have "Partly Saved" Gran Turismo From Failure
"He gathered around thirty consumers to test the game [...] and they all crashed."
- News
- Gran Turismo
- PS1
- Shuhei Yoshida
Monday5th May 2025
News You Can Play This Fan-Made Sega Vs. Capcom Crossover Right Now
Update: Beta 2.75 released featuring two new playable characters
- Sega
- Capcom
- Homebrews
News The Most Advanced Killer Instinct Emulator Yet To Launch In Beta This Week
BigInstinct is the work of BigPEmu creator Rich Whitehouse
- News
- Killer Instinct
- Emulation
News New Dungeon Crawler 'Algolemeth' To Feature Soundtrack From Streets Of Rage's Yuzo Koshiro
Coming to Steam later this year
- News
- RPGs
- Yuzo Koshiro
- Steam
News Apple Arcade Exclusive Amazing Bomberman Being Shut Down Later This Month
The game will no longer be playable from May 29th
- News
- Bomberman
- Konami
- Apple Arcade
Sunday4th May 2025
News Footage Of Taito's Cancelled F-Zero-Style Racer 'Vertexer' Appears Online
Canned shooter Spriggan Powerd also shown off
- Cancelled
- Taito
- Arcade
Saturday3rd May 2025
News Strikers 1945 And Bases Loaded Collections Come To Polymega
Two more physical collections arrive
- Polymega
Friday2nd May 2025
News Limited Run And Retro-Bit Under Fire For Using Recycled Chips In Shantae Advance
"The product is built to last"
- Limited Run Games
- GBA
- Nintendo
News The WavePhoenix Brings Nintendo's Best Controller Back To Life For $5
"I'm hoping WavePhoenix gives a second life to WaveBirds"
- Nintendo
- GameCube
- Modding
News Sega Saturn 'Wuxi' Mod Is A Literal Game-Changer When It Comes To Booting Software
New "disc drive channel switcher" now available
- Sega
- SEGA Saturn
- Modding
