Guide The Best Castlevania Games Of All Time
There's so much to count!
News Saturn Fans Can Now Play The Ultimate Version Of Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night
"The most complete and advanced version"
News Does Your SNES Have A Ticking Time Bomb Inside?
"We REALLY need CPU replacements soon"
News - January, 2024
Wednesday31st Jan 2024
News Sega AI, One Of The Company's Rarest Systems, Just Got Preserved Online
ROM dumps, scans and much more besides
News Tanita's $460 PS4 'Virtual-On' Twin-Stick Controller Is Going Back Into Production
Update: Pre-orders open now
News Amateur Coding Event Wants You To Make The Worst Sonic Mania 2 Imaginable
"Make the stupidest, silliest, and terrible game"
News Atari Is Republishing Three 7800 Classics This May, Along With The CX78 Joypad
Have you played Atari today?
News Pinball Wizard's 'Balls Of Steel' Is Back On Steam, With 2 New Atari-Themed Tables
Duke Nukem is sadly missing in action though
News Tecmo's Silkworm Is This Week's Arcade Archives Release
Coming February 1st on PS4 & Nintendo Switch
Retail Therapy Leicester Vintage & Old Toy Shop, UK
Where does he get those wonderful toys?
News Colossal Cave Is Getting A Physical Release For PS5, PS4, PC, & Switch
Pre-orders are open now!
News Spec-Ops: The Line Has Unexpectedly Been Delisted From Steam
Update: The game will be removed from other digital storefronts too
News Retro Mystery Club Vol. 2 Is Releasing In The West Later This Spring
The game will be released for Nintendo Switch & PC
Tuesday30th Jan 2024
News AYANEO Flip DS And KB Now Available For Pre-Order
Early bird pricing applies, too
News My Word! Jane Austen Is Getting Her Own NES Platformer
"Play as Jane Austen, English novelist, in this 2D platforming adventure"
News The Sugar Cubes X Jelly Controller Turns This Smartphone Into A Handheld Console
Compatible with the Unihertz Jelly Star Phone
News Perfect Organism: An Alien: Isolation Companion Book Gets August Release Date
In space, no one can hear you read
News GBA ROM Dumper 'INAZUMA REPLAY' Hits Japanese Stores
Comes in a 3D-printed case
News Celeste Devs Release N64-Inspired 3D Platformer To Celebrate 6th Anniversary
"Celeste 64: Fragments of The Mountain" is out now on itch
News A Classic "Ganbare Goemon" Manga Series Is Getting Reissued Digitally in Japan
13 volumes will be available as e-books from February 8th
Monday29th Jan 2024
Guide Building The Ultimate Nintendo 64
Giving your console the 'ultra' treatment
News AYANEO CEO Explains How The DS-Style FLIP DS Will Work
Second screen can be used for "real time data"
Review Technōs Arcade 1 (Evercade) - Double Dragon 2 (Almost) Worth The Price Of Admission
Eight arcade games from Technōs Japan
News Game Boy-like Pocket DMG "Will Astonish Many People" Says AYANEO Boss
"We have designed a surprise that most players would not expect"
News Arcade Archives Officially Hits 400 Titles Released
Last week's reissue of Rainbow Islands was the 400th game distributed
Random We Need This Fanmade Monkey Island LEGO Set To Be Real
"That's the second biggest LEGO Monkey Head we've ever seen!"
News The Brilliant Coup Is A New Zak McKracken-Esque Adventure Game Coming To Steam
The Brilliant Coup looks to be a brilliant tribute to '80s point & click adventures
Sunday28th Jan 2024
Guide All Yakuza / Like A Dragon Sega Minigames
Updated with games from Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth
News Nintendo Just Filed Multiple Trademarks For The GameCube Controller
All registered in the UK
Saturday27th Jan 2024
Guide Building The Ultimate Sega Saturn
Upgrading Sega's 32-bit powerhouse
Guide Best Sega Console - Every Sega System, Ranked By You
From SG-1000 to the Dreamcast, which one got your vote?
News Saturn Shmup 'Kingdom Grand Prix' Has Hidden English Language Option
Now unlocked by a new patch
Friday26th Jan 2024
Guide Best Tekken Games Of All Time, Ranked By You
The Rave War to end all Rave Wars
News One Of Gaming's Worst Controllers Is Back Thanks To Zelda "Spiritual Successor"
Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore is giving you the full CD-i experience
News 'Shenmue' Earns Hilarious Reference In 'Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth'
"This kid is a force of nature"
News Edia's 'Cosmic Fantasy Collection' Is Out Now On The Switch eShop
Includes new localisations for Cosmic Fantasy & Cosmic Fantasy 2
News Silhouette Mirage's Demo Disc Contains The Full Game, And Here's How To Unlock It
"A late prototype build" to be precise
News Fan Releases Translation Patch For 'Wind's Seed', A "Cute" RPG From Puyo Puyo Dev Compile
Wind's Seed was released in 1995 in Disc Station magazine Vol. 07
News "We Approached The Work As Though These Things Were Real" Says WipEout Graphic Designer
"It was world-building really"
News Early Proposal For WayForward's "Shrek Kids" Nintendo DS Game Appears Online
The game was released as Shrek: Ogres & Dronkeys in 2007
Thursday25th Jan 2024
News The $300 AYANEO Next Lite Will Launch With Windows 11 And Not The Steam-Style HololSO
Update: HololSO can be loaded after purchase
Feature Before Dragon Quest, Yuji Horii Created This Groundbreaking Erotic Adventure
Karuizawa Yūkai Annai would influence the NES JRPG
News Speedrun World Records Are Being Contested On One Of The Saturn's Worst Games
Update: Record beaten twice in the space of a few days
News The Exact Perfect Collection For The X68000 Z Is Out Today In Japan
Includes Naious, Aquales, Etoile Princesse & Geograph Seal
News New Pac-Man Oreo Promotion Offers The Chance To Win A Trip To Japan
The promotion is now available in the UK and Ireland
News This New 3D Engine For The GBA Will Let You Build Your Own Doom-Esque Maps
3DSage is a new game engine for the GBA "coming soon"
Random The Creator Of The DMA Design Logo Reflects On Its Legacy 30 Years Later
"It was born very quickly, and it still annoys me!"
Wednesday24th Jan 2024
Guide The Best Castlevania Games Of All Time
There's so much to count!
News Here's Where You Can Pre-Order The Atari 400 Mini
The mini device will emulate the whole 8-bit Atari range & the Atari 5200
The Making Of Nintendo Adventure Books, Mario's 'Fighting Fantasy' Period
"They shipped me a Super Famicom and a copy of Mario"
News Newly Translated Interview Sheds Light On Lost SNES Satellaview RPG
"I'd certainly have no complaints if it got turned into a live-action show"
News Lunar: Silver Star Story Touch Arrives On Android Devices This Week
SoMoGa, Inc. teases more news coming this Spring
News Midnight Challenge Is An Awesome Ridge Racer Homage Created In Game Maker Studio
That's just what I wanted to see!
Tuesday23rd Jan 2024
News This Game Preservation Group Wants To Archive LaserDisc Games Before They're Lost Forever
"This project needs international cooperation"
Interview "It's Never Easy" - SNEG's Quest To Make Old Games Available Again
"We feel like there’s just an infinite amount of work to be done."
News Even Conker's Dad Didn't Know About The Playboy Multiplayer Tour
"It's a fun and sexy game ... very Playboy-esque!"
Feature Why The Video Game History Foundation Is Creating A Digital Library Of Games Media
"Based on our historical standpoint, we have a strong fair use case"
Random Ex-Metal Slug Developer Reveals Team's Digimon Obsession
It apparently got so bad their boss had to ban them
News New "Mega Album" To Feature Music From Ninja Gaiden & Mega Man Composers
You can pre-order the album now!
Monday22nd Jan 2024
Feature Is Quintet's Robotrek The Most Underrated SNES JRPG Ever?
Too many people passed on this 16-bit gem
News Over 40 Years Later, William Shatner Still Loves The Commodore Vic-20
"The Commodore VIC-20 was THE best personal computer of the 1980 for the price"
News The 'Ted' TV Show Recalls Sega's Glory Days
Seth MacFarlane was a Genesis kid, clearly
News Vengeance Hunters Is A New Action-Packed Brawler For The Neo Geo
Also coming to the Switch, Steam, PlayStation and Xbox digital stores
News New Bravoman Patch Addresses Its Notoriously Terrible TurboGrafx-16 Translation
And also restores its cut developer Easter Eggs
News New Prototypes Of Spyro: Year Of The Dragon & Crash Bash Have Been Discovered
Fans can now take a closer look at the development of the PlayStation titles
Sunday21st Jan 2024
Anniversary Smash Bros. Turns 25 Today
A quarter-century of brawling
Saturday20th Jan 2024
Feature Going Back In Time - Do You Play Retro Games To Reconnect With Your Past?
"As retro gamers, we are chasing these memories"
News Castlevania Fan Game 'Maria Renard's Revenge' Ported To Sega Saturn
Was originally developed for the Amiga
Friday19th Jan 2024
Guide Best Nintendo DS Games Of All Time
Double the screens, double the fun
News Here's A Brand New Trailer For Rocket Knight Adventures Re-Sparked Collection
Pre-orders are also live!
News Polymega's Missing Games Will Be Restored With Next System Update
Update: Deal has been worked out with Piko
News The First Ever Megami Tensei Game Has Just Been Fan Translated Into English
Telenet Japan's 1987 MSX title has been translated into English
News Modder Restores One Of Gaming's Biggest Commercial Flops, And It's Mesmerising
Includes taking a bath in an ultrasonic cleaner
News Super Sunny World Is A Brand New NES Game Featuring Zapper Support
Player 2 can plug in and fire away!
News New Game Boy Title Gives You A Reason To Dust Off Your Game Boy Printer
"There will be 12 bookmarks in my game for you to print"
Thursday18th Jan 2024
Review AYANEO Slide - A Formidable Steam Deck Rival With A Physical Keyboard
...and a high price tag, to boot
News AYANEO's $500 NES-Style Mini PC Has A Built-In 4-Inch Touchscreen
Update: Pricing now revealed
News 8BitDo's 2.4G Ultimate Controller Now Has Drift-Free Hall Effect Sticks
Now available in purple, too
News Dammit, We Need This ZARA Dreamcast Bag
Seems to be exclusive to the southern hemisphere at present
News Toxic Tomb Is A New Master System-Inspired Action Platformer, Available For PC
Did we mention it's free?
News Archivists Have Scanned & Preserved Every Game For The Gakken Compact Vision TV Boy
The obscure Japanese console was released all the way back in 1983
News 'Yokai Tantei Chima Chima' Is The Latest PC-88 Title Heading To Switch
Distribution starts on January 25th!
News Impossible Mission Is Getting A Fanmade Port For The Atari Lynx
Its creator hopes to license the game properly for a physical release
Wednesday17th Jan 2024
News Check Out The Game Gear-Inspired Z-Pocket Game Bubble
Sega fans, take note
News Has Twin Galaxies Restored Billy Mitchell's Donkey Kong Scores? Not Really
Update: Scores are present on archived, pre-2014 "historical database"
Guide Gaming's Best 'Leftfield' Control Interfaces, Ranked
If it's not a pad or stick, it might be on this list...
News Alone In The Dark's Digital Deluxe Edition Will Include Retro Skins Based On The 1992 Original
Surely, this is the best way to play the game!
News Team Behind 'Boku no Natsuyasumi 2' Translation Announces Next Project, 'Rowdy Princess'
"It is the most exciting game that I’ve ever worked on"
News This Week's Arcade Archives Release Is Super Contra
Heading to Nintendo Switch & PS4 on January 18th
News NES-Style Games 'Reknum' And 'Ploid' Come To Dreamcast
New physical releases from VGNYsoft
News ScummVM Announces Support For '90s Point And Click Classic Orion Burger
Featuring the legendary voice talent of Rob Paulsen and Jim Cummings
Tuesday16th Jan 2024
News Mega Final Fight's Latest Build Brings New Mode And Improved Performance
Update: January 2024 build now available to Patreon supporters
News Octopus Arcade Stick Gets New System Stretch Goals And A Revised Layout
PS2, SNES and PC Engine support on the cards
News Sega's Turbo Outrun Has Been Ported To The Commodore Plus/4
By the developers of last year's incredible Lemmings port
News 'The Legend Of Steel Empire' Resurrects The Famous Steampunk Shmup (Again)
Update: New trailer shows the visual upgrade
News Uniqlo Is Producing New Shirts To Celebrate Capcom's 40th
Street Fighter, Monster Hunter, Final Fight and more
News Crash Bandicoot Composer Cites The Song That "Locked In" The Series' Soundtrack
"It didn’t sound like Mario music"
News Tower of Druaga For The PC Engine Has Just Got A New Fan Translation
Play the 1992 remake in English for the first time
Monday15th Jan 2024
News "Don't Be Mad At Valve" Says Dev Behind DMCA'd Portal 64 Project
Update: "The project was probably doomed to be taken down"
Feature Who Created Dreamcast's Logo? We Spent A Year Trying To Find Out
Sources seem to disagree on its origin, so we decided to investigate!
News Back In 1990, Macaulay Culkin Thought TurboGrafx-16 Was "Better Than Nintendo"
Home Alone star got something special from Arsenio Hall
News The 'Small Universe X Sugar Cubes' Handheld Has A Rotating OLED Screen
Check out this design
News Shiren The Wanderer 4 Plus For PSP Gets English Fan Translation
The fan translation is four and a half years in the making
Sunday14th Jan 2024
News We Never Got A Good Altered Beast 2, So A Fan Is Making One
Wise from your gwave!
News OneXPlayer X1 Is A Powerful 3-In-1 Gaming Handheld With An 11-Inch Screen
Powered by Intel Core Ultra
Saturday13th Jan 2024
The Making Of Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within, Square's Groundbreaking Box Office Bomb
"There was no template. No one had done this before."
The Making Of Rez - Tetsuya Mizuguchi's Timeless Masterpiece
"When we first made this work, it felt like magic"
Friday12th Jan 2024
Feature Meet Naked War, The Wii 'Advance Wars' Beater That Never Was
"I think it's the best-designed game we've ever made"
Feature 20 Years After Atari's E.T., Another Company Made The Same Mistake
How NewKidCo gambled it all on E.T. with disastrous results
News Nintendo's Game Boy Color Becomes A Speedometer
Color me surprised
News GameShark Is Back From The Dead, But As AI
Altec Lansing is releasing AI Shark this year
News Freshly Translated 1995 Interview Reveals Miyamoto's Indie Aspirations For The SNES Satellaview
"if we only had to send the data, distribution becomes much more doable"
Thursday11th Jan 2024
News Rare 'SegaSonic' Arcade Game Has Been Dumped And Preserved
Update: Board has been donated, not sold
The Making Of Metropolis Street Racer, Project Gotham's Origin Story
"We were doing so many things that had never been done before"
News A Fan-Made 'Saturn Mini' Could Be On The Horizon
Update: Footage of handheld prototype posted online
News Twilight Bastion Is A PS1-Style Metroidvania Inspired By Vagrant Story
"Navigate through a dark and twisted castle in search of escape"
News PlayStation And Dreamcast Veteran Shuji Utsumi Is Now Sega's Western Big Boss
He's also worked at Disney and Q Entertainment
News Partial English Translation For 'Saturn Bomberman Fight!!' Now Available
Japanese exclusive now (partly) playable in English
Wednesday10th Jan 2024
Review IPS 16Bit Pocket MD HD - A Genesis / Mega Drive Handheld That Plays Carts
One step ahead of Hyperkin? Not quite...
News Miyamoto Discusses Zelda 64DD In Newly Translated 1997 Spaceworld Interview
"We can easily release something like a Second Quest version on the 64DD"
News Atari Gamestation Portable Comes With Built-In Paddle And Trak-Ball
My Arcade reveals its 2024 line-up at CES
News Polymega's Latest System Update Has Some Unwelcome Surprises
Next system update should provide fixes
News Game Designer Jennell Jaquays Has Passed Away Aged 67
"Great person, great gamedev"
News The PC-88 Adventure-RPG 'Märchen Veil' Is Coming To Nintendo Switch
It will be released tomorrow on January 11th
News Namco's Cosmo Gang The Puzzle Is This Week's Arcade Archives Release
The falling-block game originally launched in arcades back in 1992
Tuesday9th Jan 2024
Feature We Sat Down With Legendary Irem Devs To Talk Game Design, Pixel Art And Sekaikan
"Some of my colleagues called me the 'dark lord of perverts'"
News A Sonic Mobile Card Game From The 2000s Has Just Been Preserved
Sonic no Daifuugou was released in 2005 for various Japanese mobile platforms
News One Of The World's Most Obscure Consoles, The Casio Loopy, Gets Its Own Flash Cart
And it's sold out already
News Hyperkin's Portable Genesis / Mega Drive Docks Like A Nintendo Switch
Say hello to the Mega 95
News Hiroshi Yamauchi Talks 64DD In Newly Translated 1997 Conference
"The domestic video game market is clearly losing steam"
News Saturn Softmod 'Pseudo Saturn Kai' Gets Huge Update
V6.541 has been in development for two years
News Bubsy "Rough" Prototype Pitched To Atari Breaks Cover Online
The cat's out of the bag
Random Did You Know About This Hilarious Easter Egg From Street Fighter Alpha 2?
This probably wouldn't fly in a modern fighting game
News Former SNK Staffer Confirms 'Akira' Inspired Classic Neo Geo Shmup 'Last Resort'
"I am a huge Katsuhiro Otomo fan"
Monday8th Jan 2024
Guide Best Evercade Games, Ranked By You
Is your favourite cartridge at the top of the list?
The Making Of Witchwood, Team17's Abandoned Zelda Rival
"We were trying to be better than Zelda with the little things"
News SNESTang Is The World's Smallest FPGA 'SNES Classic'
A promising work in progress
Random These Adorable Pac-Man Crochet Kits Will Have You Hooked
And they're perfect for beginners!
News 'Dungeonette - The New Adventure' Is A Promising Dungeon Crawler For The Amiga / CD32
From the developer behind Cyberpunks & Cyberpunks 2
News Phantasy Star II Designer Would Love To Do A Genshin Impact-Style 3D Remake
...with cinematics like Uncharted, apparently
News Did You Know That Konami's Simpsons Coin-Op References A Scrapped 'Rabbit Ears' Plotline?
What's Marge hiding in her hair?
Sunday7th Jan 2024
Feature Streets Of Rage 2, ActRaiser And Story Of Thor - Ayano Koshiro On Her Career In Games
"It's like clothes. If you find something you like, you just put it on"
Random Modder Creates Frankenstein 'Nintendo PlayStation'
"Now I own a Nintendo PlayStation!"
The Making Of Chandragupta: Warrior Prince - The Indian 'Prince Of Persia' Published By Sony
"I wrote the entire design, but the implementation was catastrophic"
News Platinum's Apple Exclusive 'World of Demons' Is Headed For Digital Purgatory
"We extend our gratitude to all players who have enjoyed the game"
Saturday6th Jan 2024
News Two More People Have Beaten NES Tetris
Fractal161 and P1xelAndy did it within a day of each other
The Making Of Nintendo Magazine System's Street Fighter II VHS - The Ultimate Cover Gift?
"It was basically an escalation of the 'cover-mounted gift wars' of the period"
The Making Of Music, The PlayStation Audio Creation Tool From WipEout's Tim Wright
"The deepest crunch development I've ever done"
The Making Of Steel Battalion, The Ultimate Hardcore Mecha Experience
"I felt this anger against the entire industry. You're all just making the same old shit"
Friday5th Jan 2024
News AYANEO's Nintendo DS-Style 'Flip DS' Shown Running Forza Horizon 5
Packing a AMD Ryzen 7 7840U processor
News Evercade Previews TheC64 Collection 3, Coming This February
Update: Game previews go live on Evercade site
News Neo Geo Pocket FPGA Beta Core Now Available
For MiSTer and Analogue Pocket
News Teen Who "Beat" Tetris Dedicates Feat To Late Father Who Passed Away Just Weeks Ago
Adam Gibson died on December 14th, aged just 39
Random Wonder Woman "Will Outshred You All" At Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
Don't ever question Lynda Carter's Tony Hawk's Pro Skater skills!
Thursday4th Jan 2024
Guide Best WipEout Games, Ranked By You
Which of Sony's anti-grav racers is best?
News Teen Who "Beat" Tetris Told To "Go Outside And Get Some Fresh Air"
"Beating Tetris is not a life goal"
News Bitmap Books Is Launching 'N64: A Visual Compendium' This Year
Another book to look forward to in 2024
News The Elder Scrolls Daggerfall Now Has A Fanmade Remaster
Adds modern lighting, high-resolution widescreen support, and more!
Wednesday3rd Jan 2024
News Here's (Even More) Footage Of Street Fighter Alpha Running On Mega Drive / Genesis
Update: Port continues to shape up nicely
News The Monty Mole Collection Brings Four Speccy And C64 Classics To Nintendo Switch
No, not THAT Monty Mole, Mario fans
News 34 Years After Release, A 13-Year-Old Has Just "Beaten" NES Tetris
The "true" kill screen has been reached
Feature The Story Of Sony London's Lost Version Of 'Until Dawn'
"Think Scream versus I Know What You Did Last Summer"
News New SNES Game 'Dottie Flowers' Is Getting A Physical Release This Year
You'll need to play the demo to learn how to get it...
News 11 Unseen Prototypes From Cancelled Vectorman PS2 Project Surface Online
The game was being developed by Pseudo Interactive
News Here's Why The Designers Republic Stopped Working On WipEout
"No thank you. Mission complete. Game over"
News Nichibutsu's Vertical Action Scroller 'Mighty Guy' Heading To Switch & PS4 This Week
The game originally released in arcades back in 1986
Tuesday2nd Jan 2024
News Saturn Fans Can Now Play The Ultimate Version Of Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night
"The most complete and advanced version"
News Does Your SNES Have A Ticking Time Bomb Inside?
"We REALLY need CPU replacements soon"
News Lufthoheit Is A Thunder Force-Style Shmup For The Genesis / Mega Drive
LUFTHOHEIT has scaling, loads of sprites and bags of colour
The Making Of PS2, The World's Most Successful Video Game Console
"By the end of the process, I'm almost hallucinating with jet lag"
News Golden Axe '32X Edition' Now Works On Real Hardware
"This is as close to arcade perfect as we're gonna get"
Random 24 Years On, This 'Hogs Of War' Ad Is Still Going Strong In A British Pub Toilet
Who's got the biggest weapon?
News Clockwork Knight 2 Has Been Hiding This Amazing Secret For Almost 30 Years
"A Clockwork Knight Christmas present"
News ScummVM Adds Support For 50 More Games, Including Muppet Treasure Island
RetroArch recode! Online multiplayer! Nancy Drew!
News This Resident Evil 2 Remake Reimagines The Game As A First-Person Shooter
Get up close and personal
News How Many References Can You Spot In This Amazing Fan-Made Sonic Video?
The whole gang is here
News Warhammer Designer Bryan Ansell Has Passed Away
"Without him, there would almost certainly be no Warhammer today"
Monday1st Jan 2024
Feature I Spent $75,000 Documenting Japan's Gaming History, And It Was Quite The Ride
A wild adventure of tropical typhoons, insane litigation, and fish testicles
The Making Of John Romero's Daikatana, The Game Boy Zelda Clone That Outscored Its Big Brother
"The plan to turn an FPS into an action-RPG like Zelda was a challenge"
The Making Of Grimace's Birthday - The McDonald's Game Boy Adventure That Became A Viral Sensation
"No one in the team expected such a warm reception"
Feature The PlayStation Performance Analyser, Ken Kutaragi's Secret Weapon In The 32-bit War
"You could understand almost everything about what the system was doing"
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