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TodayMon, 30th Dec 2024
Best Of 2024 Celebrating The Iconic Video Game Art Of Yuji Kaida
Godzilla and Gundam artist has created some of the most iconic game covers
- Gallery
- Features
- Art
- Yuji Kaida
"Wrestlerage never happened; it evolved"
- Features
- Rare
- SNES
- Kev Bayliss
"I believe the potential was definitely there"
- Features
- The Making Of
- Best of 2024
News You Can Play The Dreamcast GTA III Port Right Now
Iconic PS2 game actually started life on Sega's console
- Sega
- Homebrews
- Dreamcast
- GTA
YesterdaySun, 29th Dec 2024
Best Of 2024 Konami Butchered This SNES Classic, So We Fixed It
Everyone should try hacking a game at least once...
- Features
- Hacking
- SNES
- Nintendo
Best Of 2024 Meet The Man Who Supplies Netflix, Disney And EA With Vintage Arcade Cabinets
"I suppose I became a bit of a celebrity of arcade machines"
- Features
- Arcades
- Best of 2024
Best Of 2024 Does Video Game History Have A "Nintendo Problem"?
"Nintendo fans live in a bubble"
- Features
- Talking Point
- Nintendo
- Best of 2024
News 25 Years After It Changed Gaming Forever, Sega Staff Reveal Shenmue Almost Came To PS2 And Xbox
"If you had wanted to release it, you could have done"
- Sega
- Shenmue
- PS2
- Xbox
Saturday28th Dec 2024
News Team17 Co-Founder Martyn Brown Has Passed Away Aged 57
The British games industry loses a legend
- Team17
Best Of 2024 The Truth About Retro Game Hunting In A Post-Pandemic Japan
Is it all doom and gloom?
- Features
- Japan
- Best of 2024
Best Of 2024 Unpacking The 64DD, Nintendo's Most Infamous Flop
We take a closer look at one of Nintendo's biggest failures
- Features
- Nintendo
- 64DD
- Best of 2024
News Sega Admits It Doesn't Know How Many Games It Owns
...but it does appear to own the rights to Warp's games
- Sega
- Games Preservation
Best Of 2024 The Making Of Animal Well, 2024's Most Unique Metroidvania
"I took a vow that I would do this at some point in my life"
- Features
- The Making Of
- Best of 2024
News Voice Commands Have Been Discovered In Zelda: Majora’s Mask
You'll need to speak Japanese, though
- Nintendo
- Zelda
- N64
News OneXPlayer Teases Transforming Nintendo DS-Style Android Handheld, OneXSugar
Powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip
- OneXPlayer
- Nintendo
- Nintendo DS
Friday27th Dec 2024
Best Of 2024 The Making Of FIFA Road To World Cup 98, The "Greatest FIFA Of All Time"
"That’s the best FIFA that’s ever been made and still is"
- Features
- The Making Of
- FIFA
- Best of 2024
Best Of 2024 "A True Original" - Digital Eclipse On 'Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story'
We speak with Digital Eclipse editorial director Chris Kohler
- Interviews
- Features
- Llamasoft
- Jeff Minter
Best Of 2024 "It’s Rare That You Can Identify A Winner" - How Namco Brought Tekken To The West
We chat to former Namco US product manager Jerry "Blood & Guts" Momoda
- Features
- Interviews
- Tekken
- Namco
Thursday26th Dec 2024
Best Of 2024 The Making Of Suikoden, Yoshitaka Murayama's PS1 RPG Masterwork
Following the passing of Murayama, we look at one of his most famous games
- Features
- PlayStation
- The Making Of
- Suikoden
Best Of 2024 The History of Erotic Games In Japan
A (largely) SFW investigation from the Japanese Game Preservation Society
- Features
- Japan
- Best of 2024
News The Star Wars Holiday Special Gets Its Own (Unofficial) Genesis / Mega Drive Game
May the farce be with you
- Sega
- Mega Drive
- Homebrews
- Star Wars
Best Of 2024 "An Enormous Headache" - The Amazing Story Behind Indiana Jones & The Fate Of Atlantis
From the perspective of its director/co-designer Hal Barwood
- Features
- Interviews
- Indiana Jones
- LucasArts
News Sega Superfan Creates His Own Final Fight MD Console
"I may have taken on too much"
- Sega
- Mega Drive
- Homebrews
- Final Fight
News Super Dimension Fortress Macross II Is Coming To Arcade Archives On Switch And PS4
Release date still to be confirmed
- Macross
- Arcade Archives
- Nintendo Switch
- PS4
Wednesday25th Dec 2024
News You Can Now Play SNES Batman Returns On Your Sega Genesis, For Free
Update: Demo now available
- Sega
- Mega Drive
- Homebrews
- SNES
Best Of 2024 3 Cities, 17 Stores – Our Epic Retro Gaming Hunt Across Japan
Here are all the places we visited!
- Features
- Retro
- Japan
- Best of 2024
"Terry's way of looking at the world was ‘Ordinary people in an extraordinary world’"
- Interviews
- Features
- Discworld
- Terry Pratchett
Best Of 2024 The Quest To Preserve Japanese "Keitai" Feature Phone Games
"I looked at all these game preservationist organisations and nobody was saying anything"
- Features
- Game Preservation
- Emulation
- Best of 2024
Editorial Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animals
We hope you get all of the goodies you wished for
- Editorial
- Christmas
Tuesday24th Dec 2024
News It's A Christmas Miracle, SuperSega Now Claims Sega Is Totally OK With Its FPGA Console
Press X to doubt
- Sega
- SuperSega
Feature MiSTer Pi Is Our Pick For The Best Retro Hardware Of 2024
A groundbreaking project
- Features
- MiSTer FPGA
- FPGA
Best Of 2024 The Making Of Wizardry, The Landmark RPG That Inspired Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy
We take a closer look at one of the most influential RPGs of all time
- Features
- The Making Of
- RPGs
- Wizardry
News The NES Ninja Gaiden Trilogy Gets Natively Ported To SNES
Ryu Hayabusa gets a second chance at 16-bit glory
- NES
- SNES
- Ninja Gaiden
- Homebrews
News Fan-Made Classic 'Sonic Robo Blast 2' Comes To Sega 32X
Just in time for its 30th birthday
- Sega
- 32X
- Homebrews
- Sonic
"There was no template. No one had done this before"
- Features
- The Making Of
- Final Fantasy
- Best of 2024
News Sounds Like Duke Nukem's Voice Actor Wants To Buy The Rights To The Character
"No clue how much is needed, or if enough people would back it"
- Duke Nukem
- Kickstarter
Best Of 2024 The Making Of Nintendo Adventure Books, Mario's 'Fighting Fantasy' Period
"They shipped me a Super Famicom and a copy of Mario"
- Features
- Nintendo
- Books
- The Making Of
Monday23rd Dec 2024
News We're Not Getting Saturn And Dreamcast Minis, But We Are Getting More Sega Mini-Arcades
Thanks to retro company MyArcade
- Sega
News SuperSega Boss Puts His Beloved Lamborghini Up For Sale After All Pre-Orders Are Refunded
"This is hard, very difficult for us"
- SuperSega
- Sega
- FPGA
Nasir Gebelli has been off-grid since the '90s
- Final Fantasy
- Secret of Mana
- Nasir Gebelli
News 28 Years Ago, Michael Jackson Collaborated With Sega On A Game That Never Happened
Yu Suzuki is believed to have been involved
- Michael Jackson
- Saturn
- Music
Best Of 2024 The Story Of Sony London's Lost Version Of 'Until Dawn'
"Think Scream versus I Know What You Did Last Summer"
- Features
- Sony
- PS3
- Until Dawn
News 30 Years Later, PC-FX Launch Title Team Innocent Is Finally Playable In English
Survival horror title launched alongside the console
- Fan Translations
- PC-FX
Best Of 2024 Who Created The Dreamcast Logo? We Spent A Year Trying To Find Out
Sources seem to disagree on its origin, so we decided to investigate!
- Features
- Sega
- Dreamcast
- Best of 2024
Best Of 2024 The Making Of Snake Eater, Metal Gear Solid 3's Iconic James Bond-Style Anthem
"I mentioned I'd worked on Snake Eater, and my three young nephews went wild"
- Features
- The Making Of
- Metal Gear
- PS2
Anniversary 30 Years Ago, NEC Rolled The Dice With PC-FX And Lost
Sophomore slump
- Anniversaries
- PC-FX
- NEC
- Hudson Soft
Anniversary Street Fighter's Live-Action Movie Is 30 Years Old Today
But for me, it was Tuesday
- Anniversaries
- Street Fighter
- Movies
Game Of The Year UFO 50 Is The Gift That Keeps On Giving
But what was in second and third place?
- Game of the Year
- Features
News As Japan's Arcades Dwindle, 'The Last Game Centers' Aims To Celebrate Their Legacy
"The ultimate version of the project"
- Books
- Kickstarter
- Arcades
- Japan
Saturday21st Dec 2024
News Sega Has Been "Losing Confidence" But Its New Boss Wants To "Make It Really Shiny Again"
"Now is not the time to be defensive - but more offensive"
- Sega
- Shuji Utsumi
