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@slider1983 It's the source link at the bottom of the page.

@Ristar24 Very much so! It's proper weapon

@breach187 Given that the entire remit of the Evercade range is physical gaming, I highly doubt it.

@GravyThief I'd have to ask Matt, as he ordered this in and did it for me as a favour - this isn't a service he offers any more, but I'm sure there are other places that do.

@SoundShower The LCD mod costs about £50, plus the cost of installation. The CleanJuice is £30, and the EverDrive is around £100.

@Penguinpengy "Cosy" is absolutely the right word to use. I get that feeling every time I pick up my DMG-01!

@RupeeClock Exactly. Spot on summary, there.

Now the video is out, I think it's worth reflecting on what a staggering achievement this is - and it also makes me pine for the days of the PS1 collections. Namco was really cooking with those.

@bring_on_branstons That's very kind of you to say, and it's absolutely the intention!

@Simon-Butler "The recent article hinting at some Amiga-related announcement was an obvious diversionary tactic designed to pull people's attentions away from this ridiculously over-priced nonsense."

While I think most of what you've said is probably bang on the money, that latter point was my fault. I didn't see the Amiga thing until a few weeks after he had posted it, and it was posted well before the Callback announcement.

That one is on me!

@AndyVGR The Falcon is a 'proper' Atari though.

@NoirConceit That's a day-one reduction in price which is removed after the 30th, and I already mentioned it right at the end of the piece

@Florp I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but: https://commodore.net/callback/

@RossoftheRobots I can't believe I missed that! The review has been updated...

@gmar I've updated the piece to make that a little more clear, but given that Sega assigned an official catalog number to the game and included it on one of the Game Gear Micros, I think it's fair to say that the company was involved in some capacity here. Had the GG Micro not happened, I doubt GG Aleste 3 would have existed.

@-wc- Don't have the demo sadly

@mariteaux Both this article and the job listing state that this is a U.K.-only position, sorry.

@slider1983 Again, coverage does not equal promotion. Think of this way: does the BBC 'promote' the topics it covers?

Secondly, we've already highlighted Commodore's use of GenAI here: https://www.timeextension.com/features/talking-point-a-curious-contradiction-at-the-core-of-new-commodore-makes-me-uncomfortable

@truth_will_set_u_3 This video will cover the Namco Museum series, not every Namco game ever made.

@slider1983 And? Sites like ours post trailers to upcoming games / hardware all the time.

The trailer was sent to us along with other assets, some of which have been published this page. We uploaded the trailer so it could be embedded in this article, as Commodore's wasn't live at that point.

I'm not sure what your point is?

@slider1983 "Promoting" and "reporting" are two entirely different things.

@81632bit As far as I can see, someone has spotted a phone which looks the same and jumped to conclusions.

If it does get confirmed, then we'll update this piece, but at the moment it's nothing more than speculation.

@Hank_Scorpio Fresh blood is coming on!

@Dustybin1 I initially removed your comment for obvious reasons, but I've reinstated it because it highlights a truly bizarre trend I've noticed amongst pro-AI people - the belief that those who are angered by IP theft, scams, pollution, job losses, disinformation, and more are somehow "woke".

That's a bit like saying someone who complains about their house being robbed is a communist.

@Dustybin1 This isn't the BBC, so if we have a personal opinion on something, we will say it - just like a great many other video game websites do when covering the topic of AI.

And as for a 'witch hunt', that's 100% correct - you may like AI personally, but a quick glance online shows there are many people who don't, with very good reason. The technology is currently being employed to plagiarise, steal content, scam people, cut corners, fire staff and much more besides.

I realise it has positive uses, just like any tech, but given the remit of this site and the manner in which AI (GenAI specifically) is impacting the industry, I think it's rather niave to expect us to not to cover it and share our opinion.

@Slider2711 Feels like a 'reverse ferret', doesn't it?

@mjparker77 That is already happening, sadly, so you're bang on the money.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/26/spotify-ai-remix-tool-protects-artists-slop

@PZT That should have been the tagline!

@DestructoDisk "Please Damien I ask you to turn back from the low road and take the high road, and get back to community building around retro gaming. Get back to journalism. Take criticism as a way to find your way back to what you were trained to do as a journalist. I assume TE had to have been a passion project. I know you love this stuff. Build up instead of tearing down. Please..."

TE isn't like the BBC; it covers news but is more akin to a 'blog' or magazine, like the old video game magazines of our youth (I'm not a trained journalist, either, which might not shock you). Those magazines, you will recall, never pulled any punches when it came to sharing opinion - and neither do we.

You say "build up instead of tearing down", but GenAI is tearing down this industry (and many others) as we speak. Look at the thousands of people let go by studio CEOs who are chasing the dream of cheap AI-based labour - only to find out that these AI firms are now moving to token-based billing and AI workers are actually more expensive than the human ones they (apparently) were good enough to replace.

If sites like ours don't shine a light on this kind of thing, then the industry is likely to be in a far worse place in a few years. So no, we will not go quietly into the night, as the expression goes.

I appreciate you giving your opinion, but the site's policy to GenAI won't change - it's lazy, exploitative and harmful to the environment – and, at this stage, the only people it truly benefits are the billionaires who own these companies.

@PopetheRev28 I say this with all of the respect I can muster, you might want to read up a little on this topic.

People are getting upset about AI for very, very good reasons.

1) Theft of IP
2) Displacement of jobs
3) Data centres being built close to homes
4) Environmental impact of said data centres
5) Big tech is becoming more powerful via AI adoption

And all for tech which is constantly wrong about stuff.

I have no issue with AI being used in areas of research and data handling, but GenAI is based solely on theft and its use it basically an excuse to cheap out on your product. That's another reason people dislike it.

This is worth a read: https://malwaretech.com/2025/08/every-reason-why-i-hate-ai.html

@PopetheRev28 It's about $375 with all the same connection options (they sell different variants), so that's almost twice as much.

That might not be a lot to you, but it is to a lot of other people - esp if they're not bothered about 4K output.

@Daniel36 I've seen it. I don't even have the words.

@Ristar24 I believe this was one of the first magazines to use some form of digital capture for screenshots, and the tech was very crude back then. EMAP magazines made the transition from traditional "camera pointed at TV in a dark room" approach to digital capture around the same time and the screens never looked quite as good again. Give me lovely scanlines any day of the week!

@GravyThief Thanks for recommending the Talking Minatures book, that's on my wishlist now!

@bring_on_branstons Thanks for the save!

@Guru_Larry The original cover was drawn by hand, I know cos I've seen the original artwork

@HoyeBoye I will have to check that out!

@Dr_Fresh Appreciate you bringing some common sense to this comment thread.

@TheArcadeHustler Microwaves aren't trained on stolen IP.

@Gauchorino "Without providing a source linking AI to this price increase, it's just @Damo weaseling his personal views in and calling them news."

I linked to a news story from the BBC regarding increased demand for chips relating to AI in the first line of this piece.

Also, have a read of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%E2%80%93present_global_memory_supply_shortage

"Unlike the 2020–2023 global chip shortage, which stemmed primarily from pandemic-related supply chain disruptions from COVID-19, this shortage is driven by a structural reallocation of manufacturing capacity toward high-margin products for artificial intelligence infrastructure, creating scarcity of computer memory in consumer and enterprise PC markets"

@DestructoDisk "To clarify, yes AI is wreaking havoc across our technological hobbies, and causing massive price increases... but not that massive. Nintendo units went up $50. Asus units have better tech and are newer builds and are hundreds cheaper than Steam Deck. The Deck is using the same mold it had printed millions of units with. Valve is it's own store front, they share no profits with retailers. Valve makes money off of the games sold for its handheld, Asus and other sub $1000 handheld vendors make zero dollars on games sold.... what is going on here? Does anyone have any real answers?"

There are economies of scale at play here.

Nintendo intends to sell 20 million consoles in the FY 2027 alone, which is around four times more units than the Steam Deck has sold since it went on sale. The more of something you make, the lower the cost is, generally.

Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that Nintendo's manufacturing cost per unit is lower than Valve's, hence the difference in price increases.

Then you have to take into account the fact that the bill of materials for both devices is likely to be very different, so you're not making a like-for-like comparison. Valve may have been aggressively subsidising the cost of the Steam Deck in order to drive up adoption, something Nintendo might not have to do to quite the same degree.

@Gs69 So happy to hear that!

@Gs69 The first one I had was literally a bare circuit board with two cartridge connectors, one for the import game and the other for the PAL game that would bypass the region lock. The latter stuck out the back of the board, and the slightest knock would cause the game to crash!

I then got one of those 'Game Master' converters which allowed both carts to be slotted in from the top, and that was much more reliable.

@jamess There's a lot of good AI can do in terms of scientific research and the like, but at the moment its most visible effects are rising RAM prices, rampant data centre construction, theft of IP, job losses, environmental downsides and AI-generated slop filling up every corner of the internet.

@gojiguy Sakimoto did the music for that, too!

@MoriyaMug I have a sneaking suspicion that some of the people who don't like hearing about the negative aspects of AI are the ones who use it regularly.

I could be wrong, of course...

@slider1983 It's not even remotely the same thing. People tracing artwork is still a human copying the work of another by hand; Gen AI is a program created by a company that has taken IP without permission and is generating revenue from a long production line of imagery, all based on stolen human-made assets.

You cannot compare one with the other.

@slider1983 Have a think about why that is.

@ojisan As others have said in this thread, AI and the related demand for chips is 100% the reason behind recent price hikes. Lots of things "aren't going away" but that doesn't mean we should simply lie down and accept it.

@Teksette That's a lovely thing to say! So glad you feel like you're getting a good return on your investment. Your support means a lot!