Timeline
Thursday5th Feb 2026
News "I Hardly Ever Went Home" - Behind The Herculean Effort To Bring Xenogears To The US
"People saw me sleeping in the office every night and coming up like a zombie
"I was telling [the Xenogears team], 'Please tone down some of this stuff.'"
News This N64 Classic From The Developers Of GTA Has Gotten A Native PC Port
Space Station Silicon Valley: Recompiled is here
News This New Web App Takes The Pain Out Of Setting Up Your Analogue 3D
Label management, save data, backups and more
News Like Dungeon Master? Then Underkeep Will Be Right Up Your Rat-Infested Catacomb
"Grid movement, slow tension and tactical combat"
Wednesday4th Feb 2026
News A Fanmade VR Port Of The N64 Classic 'Perfect Dark' Is Currently In The Works
The port is now in its "experimental" stages
Castlevania 64 is finally shown some love!
News The MSX2 Versions Of The Ambitious RPG 'Burai' Are Coming To Nintendo Switch Later This Month
New 'Burai Complete Edition' announced for Japan
Coming to Steam, Xbox, PS5, & Nintendo Switch
News Prolific Saturn Modder Creates A Successor To One Of Sega's Rarest Consoles
Update: Final version of the one-off 'Sega CDX2' is shown off
News Taito's 1987 OutRun Clone 'Top Speed' Makes Its Debut On Modern Consoles Later This Week
Prepare for "an explosive sense of speed!"
Tuesday3rd Feb 2026
News The Latest ScummVM Update Could Be "The Biggest Release" Yet
Adds "12 new engines" & support for almost 200 titles
News Roguecraft DX Is Available Now On Amiga, Mega65 And Game Boy Color
Update: And it's on offer!
'F-22: Air Dominance Fighter' is being rereleased this month
News You Can Pick Up The Original Alone In The Dark Trilogy Now For Free On GOG
All three games are also part of GOG's preservation program
News Netflix Documentary Shines A Light On Korean Virtua Fighter Sensation "Akira Kid"
South Korean player famously beat the best Japanese players in the world
News AYANEO Is Giving Away A Free Handheld After Pocket S Mini "Supply Chain Communication Error"
Due to an error the device's battery is smaller than initially advertised
Monday2nd Feb 2026
"It was a game that was truly outstanding in terms of sound design"
"That's why I'm very anti-AI right now"
News Lord of the Rings: Conquest, "The Game That Killed Pandemic", Is Playable Online Once More
And it works on Steam Deck, too
News AYANEO Has Just Done Something Totally Different With Its Pocket S Mini Handheld
Available right now for as little as $319
News Slay, Queen! Another PC-FX Game Has Been Translated Into English
It's 'All Japan Women's Pro Wrestling Queen of Queens'
News This New "Dark Science-Fiction" Shoot 'Em Up Aims To Push The SNES Hardware
Super Storm Buster will feature "a very high number of projectiles" & huge bosses
News The Simpsons: Hit & Run Is Being Unofficially Ported To Dreamcast
The GTA clone could be coming to Sega's console
News The Definitive Version Of Tales Of Phantasia's PSP Remake Is Now Available In English
'Tales of Phantasia X' was released in 2010, alongside Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon X
Sunday1st Feb 2026
Retro Recap All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (February 1st 2026)
Sonic R! Banjo: Recompiled! Beavis and Butt-Head!
Saturday31st Jan 2026
Community Challenge How Fast Are You On Ridge Racer's Most Difficult Course?
"SOMEBODY'S RIGHT ON YOUR TAIL"
Friday30th Jan 2026
Fatal Fury: King of Fighters, Fatal Fury 2, and Fatal Fury Special
News The 32X Version Of Virtua Racing Has Been Decompiled
"A complete, buildable disassembly of Virtua Racing Deluxe for the Sega 32X"
"I'd rather quit the industry than use Generative AI"
News New MiSTer FPGA N64 'Turbo' Core Delivers 17.5 Percent Performance Boost
Overclocks from 80MHz to 94MHz!
Promises "totally dynamic worlds" and extensive modding possibilities
News Here's Why Official Dreamcast Magazine Never Got A Proper Final Issue
"The loss of the demo disc was the killing blow"
News Strong Museum Of Play Acquires "Comprehensive Collection Of Atari Materials"
The Curt Vendel Collection now has a brand, new home
Thursday29th Jan 2026
Anniversary "Hail To The King, Baby" - Duke Nukem 3D Has Officially Turned 30 Years Old
The shareware version, that is
"We've had part of the previously unreleased VB game for years"
"It was him wanting our help to deal with whatever he was going through"
"They wouldn't release it under the Seibu Kaihatsu name"
Localisation legend Richard Honeywood talks us through his incredible game dev origin story
