Feature Achievement Unlocked - This Free Service Has Changed The Way I Play Retro Games In 2026
RetroAchievements is quite the (ahem) achievement
- Features
- Emulation
- RetroAchievements
News Kunio-kun And River City Ransom Composer Kazuo Sawa Has Passed Away
"I really wish I had asked him more about those things while he was still alive"
- Kunio-kun
- Music
Available now on the OpenGOAL launcher
- News
- Jak & Daxter
- Half Life
- PC
News 8BitMods Launches Web-Based UI For Its Range Of Next-Gen Memory Cards
MCP WebUI 2.0 is live
- 8BitMods
'Mario Kart Wii Deluxe X' is out now
- News
- Wii
- Mario Kart
- Mods
News The Fanmade Mega Drive / Genesis Port of The SNES Shooter 'Super Pang' Has Just Been Updated
Update: MegaPang's "v0.2 alpha" is out now
- News
- Mega Drive
- Ports
- Fan Projects
Update: MediaTek's Dimensity 9300 chipset is calling the shots
- AYANEO
- Hardware
- Emulation
- Smartphones
News Anti-Grav Racer AGX GP Is Giving Us What Sony Won't: A New WipEout
Get immersed in "a true competitive 'flow state'"
- Steam
- PC
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TodayTue, 10th Feb 2026
Feature Achievement Unlocked - This Free Service Has Changed The Way I Play Retro Games In 2026
RetroAchievements is quite the (ahem) achievement
- Features
- Emulation
- RetroAchievements
News Kunio-kun And River City Ransom Composer Kazuo Sawa Has Passed Away
"I really wish I had asked him more about those things while he was still alive"
- Kunio-kun
- Music
Available now on the OpenGOAL launcher
- News
- Jak & Daxter
- Half Life
- PC
News 8BitMods Launches Web-Based UI For Its Range Of Next-Gen Memory Cards
MCP WebUI 2.0 is live
- 8BitMods
'Mario Kart Wii Deluxe X' is out now
- News
- Wii
- Mario Kart
- Mods
News The Fanmade Mega Drive / Genesis Port of The SNES Shooter 'Super Pang' Has Just Been Updated
Update: MegaPang's "v0.2 alpha" is out now
- News
- Mega Drive
- Ports
- Fan Projects
YesterdayMon, 9th Feb 2026
Update: MediaTek's Dimensity 9300 chipset is calling the shots
- AYANEO
- Hardware
- Emulation
- Smartphones
News Limited Run Games Is Bringing NES 'Jaws' To Switch Later This Week
Nintendo Life Update: Digital release is out on Friday
- Nintendo Switch
- Upcoming Releases
- News
News PlayStation Classic 'PaRappa the Rapper' Is Getting A Bunch Of New Clothing & Merch In Japan
"You gotta believe!"
- News
- PS1
- PaRappa the Rapper
- Sony
News Sega Celebrates Its 65th Birthday With This Fancy Seiko Wristwatch
"Suitable for a wide range of occasions"
- Sega
- Anniversaries
The solo Japanese developer is back with another promising shmup
- News
- Shmups
- Steam
- Nintendo Switch
Review Miyoo Mini Flip - Seriously Pocket-Friendly
Mini and marvelous
- Miyoo
- Reviews
- Emulation
- Emulation Handhelds
News After 25 Years, Rare Footage Of Space Channel 5's MTV Crossover Has Finally Resurfaced Online
Putting to bed decades of information
- News
- Sega
- Dreamcast
- MTV
News Anti-Grav Racer AGX GP Is Giving Us What Sony Won't: A New WipEout
Get immersed in "a true competitive 'flow state'"
- Steam
- PC
News You Can Now Play The 1986 Famicom Disk System Version Of Konami's 'Moero TwinBee' In English
The 1993 Famicom cartridge version previously got a patch back in 2018
- News
- FDS
- TwinBee
- Fan Translations
Sunday8th Feb 2026
Retro Recap All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (February 8th 2026)
Rave Racer! Nobuo Uematsu! Top Speed! Space Station Silicon Valley!
- Retro Recap
- Features
Poll Box Art Brawl: Duel - Super Bomberman 2 (SNES)
Nintendo Life Bob-bob-bob-bomb
- Features
- Polls
- Box Art Brawl
- SNES
Saturday7th Feb 2026
News Hamster's 'Console Archives' Starting Lineup Revealed, Includes More Than 10 Titles
Nintendo Life Here's what's on the way
- Nintendo Switch 2
- Hamster
- Console Archives
- Retro
- Upcoming Releases
"I view Fang almost like a fan myself. I think I might be his biggest fan."
- Features
- Interviews
- Sonic
- Sega
Random Fan-Made 'Star Fox CD' Adds The Hornet From Daytona USA, Because Why Not
"We've been playing Daytona USA a lot lately"
- Homebrews
- SNES
- Star Fox
- Daytona USA
You can finally understand what's happening in 'Nekketsu Nikki' mode
- Sega
- Dreamcast
- Fan Translations
Community Challenge How Far Can You Get In Ghosts 'N Goblins NES Without Taking A Hit?
Can you master this tough-as-nails NES classic?
- Features
- Community Challenge
- Capcom
Friday6th Feb 2026
News Super Bomberman Collection Out Now On eShop, Full Cart Release Coming In August
Nintendo Life Bombs away!
- Nintendo Switch
- Nintendo Switch 2
- Upcoming Releases
"I've been itching to try to make some progress"
- Sega
- Panzer Dragoon
- SEGA Saturn
- Recompilation
"We spent over a year perfectly color matching the original colors"
- Nintendo
- N64
- FPGA
- Analogue 3D
"For 30 years, I have never seen the episodes where I won"
- TV
News Mangmi Modular And Powerful Pocket Max Handheld Is Available Now For $200
Could be going up against the Retroid Pocket 5
- Mangmi
- Emulation
- Emulation Handhelds
News Here's Why Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon & Tobal 2 Were Never Localised Outside Japan
"Nobody was doing resource management at all."
- News
- Square Enix
- PS1
News We're Getting Not One But Two Culdcept Titles This July
Play your cards right
- Culdcept
- Nintendo Switch
- Nintendo Switch 2
Random The Weeknd Follows In Michael Jackson's Footsteps With Visit To Sega's HQ
Potential collab in the works?
- Random
- Sega
- Music
- Michael Jackson
News Bothtec's Choplifter-Inspired PC-88 Action Game 'Eggy' Is Coming To Switch
Arrives next week!
- News
- EGGCONSOLE
- Bothtec
- PC-88
Thursday5th Feb 2026
News This N64 Classic From The Developers Of GTA Has Gotten A Native PC Port
Space Station Silicon Valley: Recompiled is here
- Nintendo
- N64
- Recompilation
"I was telling [the Xenogears team], 'Please tone down some of this stuff.'"
- Features
- Interviews
- Final Fantasy
- Dragon Quest
News Arcade-Only Ridge Racer Sequel Rave Racer Is Finally Making Its Home Console Debut, 31 Years On
Also, Console Archives is announced
- Arcade Archives
- Ridge Racer
News Hamster's 'Console Archives' Is The Closest We'll Get To Virtual Console In 2026
Nintendo Life Cool Boarders and Ninja Gaiden II launch today
- Nintendo Switch 2
- Retro
News This New Web App Takes The Pain Out Of Setting Up Your Analogue 3D
Label management, save data, backups and more
- Analogue
- Analogue 3D
- N64
- FPGA
News Japanese Fans Are Getting A Ganbare Goemon Collection, And We've Never Been More Jealous
Releases in Japan this July
- News
- Goemon
- Konami
- Nintendo Switch
News "They Really Hated It" - The Battle To Get British English Into Dragon Quest VIII
"If you let British English in... it's not going to sell in America"
- Dragon Quest
- PS2
News "Don't You Dare Look Sad About It" - Former Xbox VP Sandy Duncan Has Passed Away
"I'll see you again, somewhere down the road"
- Xbox
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
- News
- Xenogears
- PS1
- Square Enix
News Like Dungeon Master? Then Underkeep Will Be Right Up Your Rat-Infested Catacomb
"Grid movement, slow tension and tactical combat"
- Steam
- PC
Wednesday4th Feb 2026
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
- Sega
- Modding
- SEGA Saturn
News Nintendo Expands Switch Online's Game Boy Library With Two More Titles
Nintendo Life Available now
- Nintendo Switch 2
- Nintendo Switch
- Nintendo Switch Online
- Game Boy
- GBC
News Taito's 1987 OutRun Clone 'Top Speed' Makes Its Debut On Modern Consoles Later This Week
Prepare for "an explosive sense of speed!"
- News
- Arcade Archives
- Taito
Nintendo Life "I think there are people who have trouble connecting with cute characters"
- Nintendo Switch 2
- Nintendo Switch
- Interviews
- Features
Update: The Kickstarter is now live
- News
- Indies
- Zelda
- PS2
Castlevania 64 is finally shown some love!
- News
- Castlevania
- Indies
- Steam
Coming to Steam, Xbox, PS5, & Nintendo Switch
- News
- Steam
- PC
- Nintendo Switch
News The MSX2 Versions Of The Ambitious RPG 'Burai' Are Coming To Nintendo Switch Later This Month
New 'Burai Complete Edition' announced for Japan
- News
- MSX2
- Mebius
