The company faces accusations of "punishing" existing customers
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News Panzer Dragoon Zwei Remake Devs Are Attempting To Win Back Fans With A Newly Updated Demo
"We have carefully reviewed your feedback"
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- Sega
- Steam
Random Can You Beat This "Legally Distinct Homage" To Metroid In Under 86 Seconds?
"Morph ball, what? It's the tuck-ball. Energy-tank who? That's an E-vial."
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- Metroid
- PC
- Fan Projects
News This New Suite Of Tools Aims To Make Developing NES & SNES Games Far "More Intuitive"
Meet RetroGameForge, a new set of tools from the creator of NESMaker
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- SNES
- NES
- Homebrews
"I came across this at a very sad point in my life"
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- Quake
- Cancelled
Super Monkey Ball: Redux arrives Spring 2027, with a demo available now
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- GameCube
- Monkey Ball
"All the planned included software now runs successfully"
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- PC-88
- Emulation
- Hardware
MelonDualDS & Seedless both updated
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- DS
- Emulation
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TodayTue, 11th Aug 2026
The company faces accusations of "punishing" existing customers
- News
- AYANEO
- Emulation Handhelds
News Panzer Dragoon Zwei Remake Devs Are Attempting To Win Back Fans With A Newly Updated Demo
"We have carefully reviewed your feedback"
- News
- Panzer Dragoon
- Sega
- Steam
Random Can You Beat This "Legally Distinct Homage" To Metroid In Under 86 Seconds?
"Morph ball, what? It's the tuck-ball. Energy-tank who? That's an E-vial."
- Random
- News
- Metroid
- PC
- Fan Projects
News This New Suite Of Tools Aims To Make Developing NES & SNES Games Far "More Intuitive"
Meet RetroGameForge, a new set of tools from the creator of NESMaker
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- SNES
- NES
- Homebrews
YesterdayMon, 10th Aug 2026
Playable now on PC
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- Donkey Kong
- PC
- Fan Projects
"All the planned included software now runs successfully"
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- PC-88
- Emulation
- Hardware
Thanks to this handy fan patch
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- PS2
- Fan Translations
MelonDualDS & Seedless both updated
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- DS
- Emulation
"I came across this at a very sad point in my life"
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- Quake
- Cancelled
Super Monkey Ball: Redux arrives Spring 2027, with a demo available now
- News
- GameCube
- Monkey Ball
Sunday9th Aug 2026
Retro Recap All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (August 9th 2026)
KONKR Pocket Advance! Star Wars Racer! EverDrive-64 Pro!
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- Retro Recap
Friday7th Aug 2026
"Some SKUs sold out so quickly that they had to be temporarily removed from sale."
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- GBA
- AYANEO
- Emulation Handhelds
News Mario Kart 64 In VR Looks Just As Bananas As You'd Expect
Based on Harbour Masters' unofficial PC port 'Spaghetti Kart'
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- N64
- PC
- VR
News Jaleco's NES Action Sidescroller 'Shatterhand' Punches Its Way To Nintendo Switch Next Month
The JALECOlle Famicom Ver. series is now 2 years old!
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- NES
- Nintendo Switch
Along with a remix album, and a new online tool for creating your own maps
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- Amiga
- Worms
News "That Was One Game I Wish Had Come Out" - Ex-Rare Artist Kev Bayliss Talks Unreleased Games
"I'm sure there's some ROMs floating around"
- Rare
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- Nintendo
'Marble Souls' rolls onto Steam later this year
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'Dawn of the Machine' is out now!
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- id Software
News OutRun Meets F-Zero In This New Amiga Racer Available To Pre-Order Now
"Do you have what it takes to be the top Hyper Runner?"
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- F-Zero
- OutRun
Thursday6th Aug 2026
Update: Details on editions, pricing and release date revealed
- Exclusives
- SNES
- Nintendo
- 33 Games
News Evercade DOOM Collection + Evercade Nexus DOOM Edition Officially Announced
Update: Includes the first two games
- DOOM
- Evercade
"I can deal with disappointment. This feels more like a betrayal"
- Sega
- Shinobi
News "What if Super Mario Land Came Out Much Later?" - This Short But Sweet Demo Has The Answer
Super Mario Land's opening level gets a Super Mario Land 2 makeover
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- Fan Projects
Get your guesses in now!
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- Taito
- Mini Consoles
Review The Pico GX Makes One Of Console Gaming's Most Infamous Flops Infinitely More Appealing
Amstrad GX4000, you are forgiven
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- GX4000
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News This New NES Patch Overhauls One Of The Console's Most "Difficult" Games
'Silver Surfer Redux' is out now!
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- NES
News After 6 Months Of "Insane" Optimisation Work, PS3 Emulation Now Runs "Way Faster" On ARM
A new video covers the 6-month journey to "close the gap"
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- RPCS3
- PS3
- Emulation
Featuring three playable characters and 221 rooms!
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- Playdate
- Rare
- Ultimate Play The Game
Wednesday5th Aug 2026
Available to order now
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- Anbernic
- Emulation Handhelds
News Mega Drive, Saturn And Dreamcast Watches Are Coming To Japan
Time to get excited
- Sega
- Japan
- Mega Drive
- Dreamcast
- Sega Saturn
News Bandai's Japan-Exclusive PS1 RPG 'London Spirit Detectives' Is Now Available In English
"Artificial intelligence tools were NOT used in the creation of this patch"
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- PS1
- Bandai
- Fan Translations
Love-de-Lic's 'UFO' is also coming to Console Archives
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- Arcade Archives
- Console Archives
News Pre-Orders For Quarter Arcade's Battlezone 1/4 Cabinet Open This Week
"Enter the vector battlefield..."
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- Quarter Arcades
- Atari
- Rebellion
Update: Now available for Analogue Pocket
- Nintendo
- Game Boy
- Emulation
- GenAI
News Ever Wondered How The Dreamcast Boot Sequence Is Rendered? Well, Wonder No Longer
"It's faster to hide them than to erase them from memory"
- Sega
- Dreamcast
"Our database even had a special page on dealing with the call"
- Random
- Nintendo
- Animal Crossing
- GameCube
News The ZX Spectrum Just Got A Colourful Pac-Man Style Game That You Can Play Right Now For Free
A donation to a charity of your choosing is encouraged, though
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- ZX Spectrum
- Homebrews
Tuesday4th Aug 2026
"I can now focus on the parts I enjoy most"
- Emulation
- GBA
- Game Boy
- GenAI
News Two Cancelled Virtual Boy Games Join 'Nintendo Classics' Today
Nintendo Life Retro revival
- Nintendo Switch 2
- Nintendo Switch
- Nintendo Switch Online
- Virtual Boy
- Nintendo Classics
News "The Circle Is Closing" - Duo Of Deals Establishes A "Clear Framework For Commodore And Amiga"
Things are coming together
- Commodore
- Amiga
News "I Threatened Him" - Capcom Producer's Radical Approach To Negotiating With Miyamoto
Nintendo Life Well, it worked
- Nintendo
- Capcom
- Zelda
- Game Boy
Disc-cuss
- Features
- MiSTer FPGA
- FPGA
News Leaked Roadmap Hints At Xbox's Plans For Backwards Compatibility In 2026-2028
Pure Xbox Including a "gradual rollout" for Xbox 360 games "across next-gen devices"
- Xbox
- Xbox 360
- Disc To Digital
- Backwards Compatibility
- PC
News The Original Xbox Intro Was Rendered In Real-Time, And Here's The Proof
Pure Xbox Boundary Break is at it again
- Xbox
- Microsoft
- Random
- Original Xbox
Dirge of Cerberus: Lost Episode is finally preserved in full
- News
- Final Fantasy
- Game Preservation
News Compile's Spriggan Mark 2: Re-Terraform Project Has Been Translated Into English
You couldn't mech it up
- Fan Translations
- PC Engine
News Here's Why LucasArts Couldn't Call Their Game Star Wars Episode 1: Podracer
Anyone remember Ubi Soft's 'POD'?
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- LucasArts
- Star Wars
"No generative AI or LLMs have touched any part of this translation"
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- Fan Translations
- Super Famicom
And public testing has already started
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