Latest Features

Flashback Almost 30 Years Ago, SNK And Bandai Made The Exact Same Mistake Trying To Take Down Nintendo

Monochrome madness

22

• Yesterday, 2:30pm
• Features
• SNK
• Neo Geo Pocket
• WonderSwan

Talking Point "We, The Consumers, Need To Vote With Our Wallets" - The Moral Dilemma Of Supporting SNK In 2026

"You have the right to boycott, and the right to buy"

241

• Tue 21st Apr 2026
• Talking Point
• SNK
• Neo Geo
• Features

Retro Recap All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (April 19th 2026)

Neo Geo+! Polymega! Zelda!

2

• Sun 19th Apr 2026
• Retro Recap
• Features

Interview "You're Always Facing The Risk Of It Coming To An End" - M2 Co., Ltd.'s Naoki Horii On Creating Retro Perfection

"Everyone at M2 Co., Ltd. has a strong passion and love for classic games"

39

• Sat 11th Apr 2026
• Features
• Interviews
• M2
• Naoki Horii

Feature The DNA Of Hideo Kojima, Video Gaming's Greatest Auteur

"So much can be offered only through the medium of games"

13

• Mon 6th Apr 2026
• Features
• Hideo Kojima

Retro Recap All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (April 5th 2026)

Ninja Gaiden! Evercade Nexus! Lego PSP!

3

• Sun 5th Apr 2026
• Retro Recap
• Features

The Making Of The Wizard - "I Couldn't Get A Job For 7 Months After That" - An Oral History Of Nintendo's Hollywood Debut

"It's really wonderful that it has the meaning it does for people"

32

• Wed 1st Apr 2026
• The Making Of
• Movies
• Features

Feature It's Tough Out There, So Check Out These Amazing Websites

...and YouTube channels, and podcasts, and physical magazines...

30

• Wed 1st Apr 2026
• Features

Feature Learning From The End Of i-mode, The "Life Infrastructure" That Revolutionised Japanese 'Keitai' Gaming

The service gets switched off today

10

• Tue 31st Mar 2026
• Features
• Keitai
• Japan

Retro Recap All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (March 29th 2026)

Wind Waker! Sonic X-treme! Evercade!

1

• Sun 29th Mar 2026
• Retro Recap
• Features

Interview "I Won't Claim It's A Perfect Game" - This Japanese Cult Classic Worth Hundreds Of Dollars Is Getting A Second Chance

"We used every card we had"

8

• Mon 23rd Mar 2026
• Interviews
• Features

Retro Recap All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (March 22nd 2026)

DOOM! Devastators! Animal Crossing!

3

• Sun 22nd Mar 2026
• Retro Recap
• Features

Retro Recap All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (March 15th 2026)

ThunderPass! Castlevania! Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb!

4

• Sun 15th Mar 2026
• Retro Recap
• Features

Feature "What Naughty Dog Did Was Inexcusable" - Crash Bandicoot And Jak & Daxter Artist Charles Zembillas On Why Independence Is The Key

"Work-for-hire is not the way we should be doing things"

8

• Sat 14th Mar 2026
• Features
• Crash Bandicoot
• Naughty Dog

Interview "I'm The Luckiest Son Of A B**ch In The Industry" - Skyrim's Bruce Nesmith On TSR, Elder Scrolls & Daggerfall's "Miserable" Crunch

"Pretty much everything done on Daggerfall was a negative lesson in what not to do"

8

• Wed 11th Mar 2026
• Features
• Interviews
• Bethesda
• Elder Scrolls

Retro Recap All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (March 8th 2026)

The Tairyou Jigoku! SEGAGAGA! Cookie's Bustle!

1

• Sun 8th Mar 2026
• Retro Recap
• Features

Feature A Year On From The AYANEO 3, I Wish More Companies Were Copying Its Best Feature

It's a kinda magic

8

• Thu 5th Mar 2026
• Features
• AYANEO
• Emulation

Interview "I Was Their 'Man In Japan', But In Reality, I Was A Teenager In Putney" - Shintaro Kanaoya Talks Raze, Bullfrog And Rare

"I didn't think about games as a career at all"

4

• Tue 3rd Mar 2026
• Features
• Interviews
• Rare
• Xbox

Talking Point "Why Bother If You're Not Going To Do It Properly?" - Why SEGAGAGA's AI Translation Is Upsetting So Many People

"The game IS the writing"

19

• Mon 2nd Mar 2026
• Talking Point
• Features
• Fan Translations

Retro Recap All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (March 1st 2026)

Banjo-Kazooie! Mortal Kombat! Ridge Racer Type 4!

0

• Sun 1st Mar 2026
• Retro Recap
• Features

Feature Pure FX Appeal - Unpicking The History Of The PC-FX, One Of Japan's Biggest '90s Console Flops

NEC and Hudson's last roll of the dice

22

• Thu 26th Feb 2026
• Features
• PC-FX

The Making Of Omega Boost - "Layzner's Movement Was Burned Into My Imagination" - How Yuji Yasuhara Created A PS1 Mecha Classic

"If you entrust this to me, I will absolutely make it work"

13

• Mon 23rd Feb 2026
• Features
• The Making Of
• PS1

Retro Recap All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (February 22nd 2026)

Bangai-O! Castlevania! Sonic!

2

• Sun 22nd Feb 2026
• Features
• Retro Recap

Interview "I Never Thought I'd Get To Collaborate With Nintendo" - Vicarious Visions Co-Founder Talks Activision, Tony Hawk, & Mastering The GBA

Karthik Bala runs us through his early years in gaming

3

• Fri 20th Feb 2026
• Features
• Interviews
• Vicarious Visions
• GBA

Feature They Buried My Beloved CeX

Gone but not forgotten

32

• Fri 20th Feb 2026
• CeX
• Retail
• UK
• Features

Retro Recap All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (February 15th 2026)

Space Channel 5! PaRappa the Rapper! Minecraft on Saturn!

1

• Sun 15th Feb 2026
• Retro Recap
• Features

Feature Achievement Unlocked - How RetroAchievements Has Changed The Way I Play Classic Games In 2026

RetroAchievements is quite the (ahem) achievement

27

• Tue 10th Feb 2026
• Features
• Emulation
• RetroAchievements

Retro Recap All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (February 8th 2026)

Rave Racer! Nobuo Uematsu! Top Speed! Space Station Silicon Valley!

3

• Sun 8th Feb 2026
• Retro Recap
• Features

Interview "I Believed Fang Was Forgotten" - Former Sonic Artist Talks Batman, Design Changes, & Swapping Games For Vinyl Toys

"I view Fang almost like a fan myself. I think I might be his biggest fan."

5

• Sat 7th Feb 2026
• Features
• Interviews
• Sonic
• Sega

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?

14

• Sat 7th Feb 2026
• Features
• Community Challenge
• Capcom

Interview "I Did My Best To Make It Work" - Legendary Localiser On Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, & The "Total Nightmare" Of Xenogears

"I was telling [the Xenogears team], 'Please tone down some of this stuff.'"

8

• Thu 5th Feb 2026
• Features
• Interviews
• Final Fantasy
• Dragon Quest

Retro Recap All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (February 1st 2026)

Sonic R! Banjo: Recompiled! Beavis and Butt-Head!

4

• Sun 1st Feb 2026
• Retro Recap
• Features

Community Challenge How Fast Are You On Ridge Racer's Most Difficult Course?

"SOMEBODY'S RIGHT ON YOUR TAIL"

24

• Sat 31st Jan 2026
• Features
• Community Challenge
• Ridge Racer

Interview "Miyamoto-San Was A God To Us" - Richard Honeywood On The Raiden Project, Working With Iwata, & Turning Down Pokémon

Localisation legend Richard Honeywood talks us through his incredible game dev origin story

4

• Thu 29th Jan 2026
• Features
• Interviews
• Seibu Kaihatsu
• Satoru Iwata

Feature "Yes, It Was Elitist, And No, That Wasn't A Bad Thing" - EDGE Alumni On Why The Mag Is Still Going Strong, Over 30 Years On

"That's born from cherishing the artform, not a desire to be contrarian"

40

• Wed 28th Jan 2026
• Magazines
• Features
• Interviews

Retro Recap All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (January 25th 2026)

Sonic! Smurfs! Lara Croft! 2DS!

2

• Sun 25th Jan 2026
• Retro Recap
• Features

Community Challenge Can You Overcome Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Deadly Technodrome Level?

Get your pizzas at the ready

25

• Sat 24th Jan 2026
• Features
• Community Challenge
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• NES

Interview "Everything Was Turned Up To Eleven" - Uncovering The Epic Story Behind Mortal Kombat's Unforgettable Audio

Audio director Dan "Toasty" Forden reflects on an incredible 37-year career

8

• Fri 23rd Jan 2026
• Interviews
• Features
• Mortal Kombat
• VGM

Talking Point What Are Your Favourite Fable Memories?

We'd love to know your favourite anecdotes from across Lionhead's classic series

8

• Fri 23rd Jan 2026
• Talking Point
• Features
• Fable
• Xbox

Feature The Best Mistake Nintendo Ever Made? Why 2DS Is The Perfect Embodiment Of Gunpei Yokoi's Core Principles

Don't disrespect the door stop

42

• Thu 22nd Jan 2026
• Features
• Nintendo
• 3DS
• 2DS

Retro Recap All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (January 18th 2026)

News, features and talking points from the retro gaming world

2

• Sun 18th Jan 2026
• Retro Recap
• Features

Community Challenge Can You Beat Battletoads' Most Notorious Level?

Do you have any suggestions for future challenges we should complete?

54

• Sat 17th Jan 2026
• Features
• Community Challenge
• Battletoads

The Making Of Dungeon Master, A Truly Trailblazing First-Person RPG

"I think in a certain sense we were a little bit too early"

16

• Thu 15th Jan 2026
• Features
• Making Of
• Atari ST
• Dungeon Master

Talking Point What Was Your First Animal Crossing Game?

As New Horizon's 3.0 update drops, we want your memories of the popular series

33

• Wed 14th Jan 2026
• Features
• Talking Point
• Animal Crossing
• Nintendo

Game Changer Shining In The Darkness - My Bumpy But Brilliant Introduction To JRPGs

Better than Dungeon Master, though? Not quite...

23

• Tue 13th Jan 2026
• Game Changer
• Features
• Sega

Feature "It Was Exciting & Terrifying" — The Ultima Legend Who Taught Computers To Sing

Kenneth W. Arnold reflects on his work on the groundbreaking RPG series

6

• Mon 12th Jan 2026
• Features
• Ultima
• RPGs

Retro Recap All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (January 11th 2026)

Missed some retro news this week? We've got you covered

5

• Sun 11th Jan 2026
• Retro Recap
• Features

Talking Point What Are Your Retro Gaming Resolutions For The New Year?

New year, new you!

25

• Wed 7th Jan 2026
• Talking Point
• Features
• Retro

Game Changer Forget Pokémon And Magic: The Gathering, Fantasy Top Trumps Was My Introduction To Card-Based Gaming

You got the Demon? Right, I'm not playing

14

• Tue 6th Jan 2026
• Features
• Game Changer