News Super Mario 64's "Unopenable" Door Finally Opened After 28 Years
And without using a hack, too!
Feature Meet The Man Behind The $99 MiSTer Clone That's Changing FPGA Gaming Forever
"Our goal is not to try and make a bunch of money from these boards"
News The Cost Of Owning A MiSTer FPGA Is About To Come Down Dramatically
Update: New board shown in action
Feature Is It Time To Change The Narrative On The Sega Saturn?
"After 30 Years..."
News Limited Run Games Apologises For Shipping 3DO Games On CD-Rs
"We will strive to do better"
News 32 Years Later, Super Mario Kart Horizons Gives The SNES Classic A Proper Expansion
"Race across new courses in brand new custom locations"
News - May, 2024
Friday31st May 2024
Feature Meet The Man Behind The $99 MiSTer Clone That's Changing FPGA Gaming Forever
"Our goal is not to try and make a bunch of money from these boards"
News WATA-Graded NES Star Wars Prototype Released From Its Plastic Tomb
"Correcting a horrible Injustice"
News Video Game Music Legend Geoff Follin Has Passed Away
Geoff and sibling Tim were responsible for some of the best soundtracks ever
Feature The Race Is On To Save A Valuable Resource Of Video Game History
We need the community's help - do you have old copies of CTW?
News Remember That $400,000 Haul Of Stolen Playdate Consoles? They've Been Found
Update: "Dumped at a random restaurant"
News Check Out This Previously Unseen Footage Of Splatterhouse RPG "Splatter World"
Existance of the Famicom title was only hinted at previously
News Shadow The Hedgehog Almost Became A F***-Filled Swearfest
"They had me say f*** in every single line"
News Alien Storm And Bionic Commando Come To Analogue Pocket And MiSTer FPGA
Available to Jotego's Patreon supporters
Thursday30th May 2024
Feature History Of Games 2024 Offered An Embarrassment Of Riches, But Games Media Isn't Listening
"The push to publish academic work open-access is to share research"
News Deadly Metropolis Is A Streets Of Rage-Style Scrolling Fighter You Should Keep An Eye On
"Combines deep combat mechanics, exploration and beautiful graphics"
News 8BitDo Just Dramatically Expanded Its Keyboard Range
Mechanical Numpad! Keyboard Extensions! The M Edition!
News PC-88 Action-RPG YS III: Wanderers From Ys Pulled From Distribution On Switch
Update: "We are currently preparing to resume distribution"
News References To Street Fighter Characters Found In Sega's Fighters Megamix
Were Ken and Ryu considered for the Saturn exclusive?
News Rhapsody: 25th Anniversary Collection Is Coming To PS5 And Switch
Includes Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure
News Senna's Sonic Trophy Returns To Donington, The Scene Of The Greatest Lap In F1 History
"Return to the Lap of the Gods"
News More Effort Went Into This Portable N64 Than You Might Imagine
The quest to create a portable N64
Wednesday29th May 2024
News Microsoft Slayed Killer Instinct eSports Event To Stop Sequel Gossip
"The idea was dead just like that"
News "Amiga Trumps" Is Top Trumps, But With Amiga Games
"Who would win in a fight - Guybrush Threepwood or Turrican?"
News Dreamcast Virtua Cop 2 Didn't Need An English Translation, But It Has One Anyway
"My English translation patch that almost didn't even need to be created"
News UK Museum Builds 3D-Printed Replica Of Computer Space, The First Ever Arcade Machine
The game that launched an industry
Tuesday28th May 2024
News Jester Gets New Physical Editions For NES And SNES
"Navigate perilous dungeons, collect keys, outwit guards, and secure coveted bonus items"
News Blaze Confirms One Million Evercade Cartridge Milestone, Ex-Eidos Boss Joins As Chairman
Tomb Raider Collection 1 "fastest-selling cartridge in Evercade’s five-year history"
News Hideo Kojima Has Found His "Perfect" Solid Snake Actor
"I could only see him as Snake"
News The ZX Spectrum Just Got A New Alien Game, And It Works On The Spectrum Next, Too
"Vengeance for the team's demise will be achieved at any cost"
News This Dongle Lets You Use The Nintendo Wii Nunchuk As A USB Controller
Open-source AVANI Handle is on crowdfunding now
News Secret Messages In X68000 Phalanx Chart A Descent Into Crunch-Induced Madness
"I've been staring at the monitor for more than 30 hours"
"You may think pink is sexual, but that’s just your opinion"
Monday27th May 2024
News Here's A First Look At The SN Operator, Your Next Essential SNES Accessory
"Sleek, super and see-through"
News Super Mario Kart-Style SNES Racer 'Rider’s Spirits' Coming To Switch, PlayStation And Xbox
Update: Ratalaika Games confirms global release this June
Anniversary Dating Sim Tokimeki Memorial Turns 30
PC Engine version launched in 1994
Sunday26th May 2024
News 32 Years Later, Super Mario Kart Horizons Gives The SNES Classic A Proper Expansion
"Race across new courses in brand new custom locations"
News Dev Behind Wing Commander Unity Remake Makes His Work Public
"If others want to take it and run, I'm all for it"
Saturday25th May 2024
Feature Former Nintendo World Champ Jeff Hansen On Teaming Up With Nintendo Again, 30 Years Later
"It’s obviously a completely different world today"
Friday24th May 2024
News MSX2+ Action RPG Golvellius Comes To Nintendo Switch
Another welcome EGG Console release
News Ever Wondered What The Symbols On The PlayStation Controller Really Mean?
From the mouth of Teiyu Goto, the designer of the original PlayStation
News Konami Once Held A Patent For Transparent Walls In Video Games
"I am extremely opposed to the way Konami operates"
News Sega's Shadow Dancer Comes To Analogue Pocket And MiSTer
Along with the 1989 puzzler Bloxeed
Random 13 Years On, Japanese Investigation Finds Sega's Toylets Still Attract A "Stream" Of Users
We're not taking the piss, honest
News This Game Boy Won't Fit In Your Pocket
Unless you're MC Hammer, perhaps
Thursday23rd May 2024
News This Dreamcast PSU Is The Only One You'll Ever Need, But It Costs As Much As The Console Itself
"Best plug-and-play, universal, professionally made internal Dreamcast power supply"
News Nintendo's Game Boy Is A Hot Item In Japan Again
Classic handheld selling for high prices in Akihabara
News A Powerful New FPGA Rival To MiSTer And MARS Is In Development
Powered by a "state-of-the-art" Intel 7nm Agilex 5 FPGA
News Atari Purchases The Intellivision Brand, But Not The Delayed Amico Console
Ends "the longest-running console war in history"
News Once Upon A Time, Konami And Namco Didn't Want People To Share Reviews Or Cheat Codes
"Divulging cheats and reviewing games was a violation of their intellectual property"
Wednesday22nd May 2024
News Here's The Logo For The Upcoming Live-Action Street Fighter Movie
Directed by Talk to Me's Danny and Michael Philippou
News Veritus Is A Game Boy-Style RPG Adventure With A Twist
"Persevere through monsters and mysteries lurking in every corner"
News Yolk Heroes: A Long Tamago Is A Game Boy-Style RPG With Digital Pet Mechanics
"Part digital pet game, part RPG adventure, and part casual Idle game"
Tuesday21st May 2024
News Zeebo Emulator Makes "Lost" Double Dragon And Crash Bandicoot Games Playable Again
South American console went offline in 2011
News Transformers Meets Street Fighter In This Amazing Fan-Made Brawler
Hasbro, please turn this into a full game
News Cruis'n Blast Team's NBA Jam Spiritual Successor Is Called NBA Superstars
"A backboard-shattering 3-vs-3 basketball blockbuster"
News Gundam Fans, You Need This Controller In Your Lives
Say hello to the MoveMaster RSG
News Peter Molyneux Declined McDonald's Video Game Because "Kids Imagine Ronald Skewering Them"
"Absolutely nothing in the game must contain any sharp edges"
News Japanese Writer Akira Yamashita Has Launched A New Online Museum
"I can say that the era that I dreamed of has arrived"
Monday20th May 2024
News 'Mario Builder 64' Is Super Mario Maker For Mario 64
Fan-made mod lets you make your own Mario 64 levels
News Unreleased WWE 3DS Game Shown For The First Time Ever, And It's A Bit Like Power Stone
WWE Brawl never saw the light of day
News Ephemeral Legend Is An Action-Adventure RPG Inspired By The Game Boy Zelda Titles
"Wake up! A grand adventure beckons!"
News Campaign To Secure Refunds For Paprium Kickstarter Goes Live
"Collective action" suit in the works
News King Of Fighters On The Sega Mega Drive? It Could Be Happening, Unofficially
Update: Gabriel Pyron shows off footage
News Lost Satoru Iwata Interview Resurfaces 20 Years Later
"I don't think we should just do exactly what [Yamauchi] has said in the past"
News The Nokia N-Gage May Have Sucked, But It Had Rollback Netcode In 2003
"We were among the first ones to ship rollback netcode"
News New Short Film Shows How Video Games Can Connect Us Across Generations
Ahseem Yousuf's film is well worth a look
Sunday19th May 2024
News Paprium Haul Found In French Warehouse Was A Hoax
Update: "Paravec staged a hoax"
Saturday18th May 2024
News Workshop Of Retro Modder And Engineer Voultar Has Been "Ransacked"
"Almost everything has been destroyed"
News MARS FPGA Will Let You Use Your Original Carts And Support Legacy AV Connections
"It's going to be very different from anything that is available right now"
News Limited Run Under Fire For "Horrible" Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Vinyl Release
Update: Limited Run cites "restrictions"
News Konami, This Isn't The New Castlevania We Wanted
Marble of Souls is in arcades now
News AYANEO's Game Boy-Style Pocket DMG Boasts An OLED Screen
Powered by the Snapdragon G3x Gen 2
Friday17th May 2024
Review Anbernic RG ARC Six Months On - The Dream Becomes A Nightmare?
You were the chosen one
News Toaplan Arcade Garage: Kyukyoku Tiger-Heli Finally Comes To Switch And PS4 In The West
Launched in Japan back in 2021
Random Former CeX Staffer Holds Reddit AMA, And The First Question Is A Doozy
"Basically CeX screwed me over so I'll answer anything"
News PS2-Style Horror Homage 'The Glass Staircase' Coming To Switch, PlayStation And Xbox
"Remember: Good girls take their medicine"
News Dreamcast Exclusive Sega Tetris Is Back Online, Thanks To Fans
Game was never released outside of Japan
Thursday16th May 2024
News Atari Responds To Reports Of Faulty Games In $1000 50th XP Collection
"We are continuing to work towards a better solution"
News Odin 2 Maker AYN's Next Handheld Has PS Vita Vibes And A Mini LED Display
Update: Price is revealed
News Multi-System Emulation Champ RetroArch Now Available On iPhone App Store
One of the best emulator front-ends on the market
Wednesday15th May 2024
Review Miyoo A30 - A Game Boy Micro-Like Device With Some Rough Edges
New Miyoo Mini sibling has some issues
News On-Rails Shooter 'Bat Galaxy' Is A Colourful Take On Star Fox And Panzer Dragoon
Burning Rangers and Thunder Force are also inspirations
Hands On GameBook Color - A Celebration Of Nintendo's First Colour Handheld
With added Wil Overton!
News Zelda-Like 'Timothy And The Mysterious Forest' Is Getting A Game Boy Color-Style DX Update
Zelda, Metal Gear and Banjo-Kazooie all cited as inspirations
Random Top-Down Ridge Racer Looks As Cool As It Sounds
The Ridge Racer / Micro Machines crossover you didn't know you wanted
News Grimace's Birthday Studio Teams Up With Nike For Air Jordan Game Boy Game
"The Jordan brand's first ever retro game"
Random This Mega Drive / Genesis Clone Looks Like An N64, Because Why Not
Say hello to the Songa Mega Drive 3
News Disney's Canned Star Wars 'Playmation' Project Would Have Combined AR With Wearable Tech
Check out this demo footage
News Irem's Air Assault And Dream Soccer Now Playable On MiSTer FPGA
Via a M107 FPGA core
Tuesday14th May 2024
News AYANEO Is Showing Off Two Game Boy-Style Handhelds This Week
Update: New photo of Pocket DMG released
News Playing 3DS Games On The Big Screen Is Cool, But It Takes Effort
Macho Nacho Productions tests Loopy's capture kit
News Three Years On, PS1 ODE PSIO Gets An Update - Along With Some Terrifying DRM
Popular ODE updated with new features
"I immediately ran to Akihabara"
Random Star Fox Drone Racing Has Us Doing Barrel Rolls Of Joy
Pretty smooth flying, Fox
News Bitmap Books' Run 'n' Gun: A Guide To On-foot Shooters Launches In July
Celebrating "the traditional shoot-‘em-up’s closest cousin"
Monday13th May 2024
News Super Mario 64's "Unopenable" Door Finally Opened After 28 Years
And without using a hack, too!
Feature "Most Of My Engineers Were Stoned" - Nolan Bushnell On The Failure Of Atari Video Music
"I think we sold ten at full price"
News Monkey Island Creator Ron Gilbert Is Working On A Zelda-Style RPG Adventure
"Classic Zelda meets Diablo meets Thimbleweed Park"
News Seems Like Godzilla Minus One's Director Worked On Star Fox's Puppets
Takashi Yamazaki started out in the world of effects and miniatures
News Portal 64 Dev Shows Off New N64 RPG, Spellcraft
James Lambert is aiming for a full physical release
News PS1 Emulation Comes To iPhone Via Gamma
32-bit classics on your smartphone
Sunday12th May 2024
Soapbox The Trouble With Limited Run Games, And How To Fix It
"There has to be a better standard of quality"
News Dreamcast Shmup Sturmwind Is Getting Another Release And Its Own VMU
Pre-orders go live on May 15th
Saturday11th May 2024
The Making Of The Wizard - An Oral History Of Nintendo's Hollywood Debut
"It's really wonderful that it has the meaning it does for people"
News Arcade1Up "Surprised" To See Its Cabinet Crushed In Apple's Controversial iPad Pro Ad
"We share the creative community’s feelings on the ‘misdirection’ of this ad"
Friday10th May 2024
Feature Is It Time To Change The Narrative On The Sega Saturn?
"After 30 Years..."
News Someone Is Trying To Bring Super Mario 64 To The GBA
"I should be in a position to release the code into the public domain"
News This NES Clone Has RGB, S-Video And HDMI Output
Lava FC makes use of open-source RGB project
News You Seriously Need To Check Out This Fan-Made Remake Of Dragon Quest
Orchestrated OST! Remixed monsters! New items! New dungeons!
News Beep Announces Rainbow Cotton Reboot! High Tension! In Japan
Coming Spring 2025 to PS4, PS5, and Switch
News The Guardian Ranks The Greatest UK Video Game Magazines Of All Time
"Here are, arguably, the 15 (ish) best"
News Strong Museum Reveals Its 2024 World Video Game Hall of Fame Inductees
Do you agree with the choices?
Anniversary The King's Quest Series Is Now 40 Years Old
That's according to its creators
News Angeline Era Is A New 3D "Bump-Slash" Adventure Inspired By Hydlide & Ys
A demo has just been released for Steam
Thursday9th May 2024
News The Next Namco Arcade Archives Release Will Be F/A (Fighter & Attacker)
The release will mark 10 years of the series
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"
"Jon made GEMS to enable musicians on Genesis, not just FM programmers"
News Taito Classic Qix Joins The Quarter Arcades Range
Bubble Bobble is returning to the line-up, too
News Cronela's Mansion Is A Maniac Mansion Style Point 'N Click Coming To Retro Machines
Including NES, SNES, GBA, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, PC, and Switch
Wednesday8th May 2024
News Rare SNES Prototype Auction Cancelled After Passing The $2 Million Mark
Update: "The designated auction has been closed"
News Konami's Maze-Action Game 'Tutankham' Arrives On Switch & PS4 This Week
The game was originally released in arcades back in 1982
News Adorable Zelda-Like 'Isles Of Sea And Sky' Gets A Release Date
Get it wishlisted, now
Tuesday7th May 2024
News The Dreamcast Version Of Dead Or Alive 2 Has Been Unofficially Remastered
Improved textures! New effects! Extra stages!
News Crash Team Racing For PS1 Just Got A 60FPS Widescreen Mod
"This is the most logically-complex mod ever built into CTR"
News SNES Military Madness Spiritual Successor Earth Light Now Playable In English
1992 strategy title was exclusive to Japan
News SNES Classic ActRaiser Is Getting A Jazz-Based Chillout Album
Marking 10 years of GENTLE LOVE's Prescription for Sleep series
News 'Goliath Depot' Is Bringing Its Door-Slamming Arcade Mayhem To Switch
Arrives May 30th on the Nintendo Switch eShop
Monday6th May 2024
News GameBook Color: The Unofficial CGB Companion Is Out Now
The book was previously crowdfunded on Kickstarter
News The Banjo Kazooie Mod 'BK: Nostalgia 64' Lets The Bird & Bear Visit Other N64 Classics
Including GoldenEye 007, Mario 64, and Donkey Kong 64
News Sega's Turn-Based Strategy Sim 'The Hybrid Front' Is Getting An English Fan Translation
The game was originally released for the Mega Drive back in 1994
News Mystery Show Is A Spooky, New Love Letter To The Game Boy Camera
The game features the work of over two dozen photographers
Sunday5th May 2024
Feature Unpacking The 64DD, Nintendo's Most Infamous Flop
We take a closer look at one of Nintendo's biggest failures
News Protect Me Knight And Royal Anapoko Academy Dev Is Working On A Mega Drive / Genesis JRPG
Starring a "plump-bellied succubus"
Friday3rd May 2024
News The Cost Of Owning A MiSTer FPGA Is About To Come Down Dramatically
Update: New board shown in action
Feature The Truth About Retro Game Hunting In A Post-Pandemic Japan
Is it all doom and gloom?
News Multi-Console Emulator Provenance Coming The iPhone App Store, Nintendo Be Damned
Should go into testing soon
News Vanillaware Artist's 1996 PS1 Shmup 'Devil Blade' Is Getting A Modern-Day Reboot
Update: Release date confirmed
News 30 Years On, And This Iconic Super Metroid Art Lives Again
Wil Overton's Super Play art gets another lease of life
Thursday2nd May 2024
News Limited Run Games Apologises For Shipping 3DO Games On CD-Rs
"We will strive to do better"
News Lost-Media Website 'Games That Weren't' Celebrates 25th Anniversary
The site was started all the way back in 1999
News The Original Version Of Columns For The HP-UX Has Just Been Found
You can now see the true origins of the popular match-three game
News "I'm At A Loss For Words" - How A Japanese Arcade Destroyed By Fire Is Rising From The Ashes
WWE star Asuka lends her support
News A Bizarre Legal Battle Is Being Waged Over Metal Orange EX And Chip-Chan Kick's Soundtracks
Hitoshi Sakimoto and Masaharu Iwata worked on both
Wednesday1st May 2024
Feature FPGA Vs Software Emulation - Which Is Best? We Asked Four Experts To Find Out
Which option should you choose in 2024?
News New Open-Source N64 Flash Cart Imitates One Of Nintendo's Most Expensive Failures
"SummerCart64 employs features not available in other N64 flashcarts"
News Super Rare Taiwanese Mega Man Bootleg 'Zook Hero 3' Has Finally Been Dumped
Unofficial game finally preserved
News Please Don't Ask Who's In The Sonic Costume In This Rare Rosie O'Donnell Clip
"The epitome of the horror movie where there’s a killer in the costume"
News Rastan Saga Comes To Arcade Archives On Switch And PS4 This Week
"What is best in life?"
News M2 Currently Working On "Several Projects Behind The Scenes"
"Please wait a little longer"
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