"This is an incredible time to be alive for a creator"
- Features
- The Oliver Twins
- Dizzy
News RetroAchievements Come To Original Hardware Thanks To This PS2 Software Plug-In
xeRAbora brings RetroAchievements to modded hardware for the first time
- RetroAchievements
- PS2
- PlayStation
News Dev Behind AI-Assisted Daytona USA PC Port Says They Didn't Intend To Hide Claude's Involvement
Update: "It is a very useful tool"
- Sega
- Emulation
- Game Preservation
- Arcade
News Castlevania's Fanmade Sega Master System Port Just Keeps Getting Better and Better
Sega fans, be fang-ful
- Castlevania
- Sega
- Master System
News This Super Mario Kart ROM Hack Removes the Game's Annoying Single-Player Shortcoming
"Transforms the 1-player race view into a true fullscreen experience"
- ROM Hacks
- Mario Kart
- SNES
News Essencelord, A Brand New RPG For Game Boy Color, Is Now Crowdfunding On Kickstarter
You're a wizard, Marty Butterblatt Jr.
- Game Boy Color
- Kickstarter
- Indies
- Nintendo
Gunbird, Samurai Aces, Strikers, and more
- Shmups
- TGS
- PS5
- Nintendo Switch 2
News "We Completely Shot Ourselves in the Foot" - the Vectrex Mini Just Got a Display Downgrade
"We know perfectly well that this is not what we originally announced"
- Vectrex
- Vectrex Mini
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YesterdayMon, 5th Oct 2026
News RetroAchievements Come To Original Hardware Thanks To This PS2 Software Plug-In
xeRAbora brings RetroAchievements to modded hardware for the first time
- RetroAchievements
- PS2
- PlayStation
"This is an incredible time to be alive for a creator"
- Features
- The Oliver Twins
- Dizzy
News Dev Behind AI-Assisted Daytona USA PC Port Says They Didn't Intend To Hide Claude's Involvement
Update: "It is a very useful tool"
- Sega
- Emulation
- Game Preservation
- Arcade
News Castlevania's Fanmade Sega Master System Port Just Keeps Getting Better and Better
Sega fans, be fang-ful
- Castlevania
- Sega
- Master System
News This Super Mario Kart ROM Hack Removes the Game's Annoying Single-Player Shortcoming
"Transforms the 1-player race view into a true fullscreen experience"
- ROM Hacks
- Mario Kart
- SNES
News Essencelord, A Brand New RPG For Game Boy Color, Is Now Crowdfunding On Kickstarter
You're a wizard, Marty Butterblatt Jr.
- Game Boy Color
- Kickstarter
- Indies
- Nintendo
Gunbird, Samurai Aces, Strikers, and more
- Shmups
- TGS
- PS5
- Nintendo Switch 2
News "We Completely Shot Ourselves in the Foot" - the Vectrex Mini Just Got a Display Downgrade
"We know perfectly well that this is not what we originally announced"
- Vectrex
- Vectrex Mini
Sunday4th Oct 2026
We take a look at the history of Bethesda's groundbreaking, yet flawed, RPG classic
- Features
- Elder Scrolls
- Bethesda
"It’s still one of my favourite career moments to this day"
- News
- Robin Williams
- Nintendo
- Zelda
- Commercials
Retro Recap All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (October 4th 2026)
Splatterhouse! Anbernic RG DS Plus! TMNT! Donkey Kong!
- Retro Recap
- Features
News Double Dragons Is An Unhinged Mashup of Kunio-kun, IK+, and... WWF Superstars
Hacksaw Jim Thuggin'
- Taito
- Arcade
- Fan projects
- Modding
Saturday3rd Oct 2026
News New Old Pixels Signs Deal With Microids To Bring 1989 Arcade Toki To Classic Platforms
Go Ape! Spit!
- Arcade
- Ports
News The Master System's Popularity In The UK Is Still Surprising Some People
Sega's 8-bit system outsold some pretty big names in the United Kingdom
- Sega
- UK
- Master System
Thin as a deck of cards, but more like the Joker than the Ace
- Reviews
- Hardware Reviews
Game Changer Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge - Where My Love For Konami's Legendary Series Began
You've got to start somewhere
- Features
- Game Changer
- Castlevania
- Retro Recap
- Game Boy
Gallery Unboxing Shinyuden's Vixen 357 - The Japanese SRPG Finally Comes To The West
Mech'in a right fuss
- Mega Drive
- Sega
- Gallery
- Features
Friday2nd Oct 2026
"Our belief that this would be like publishing an issue of a magazine was quite simply wrong."
- News
- EGM
- Kickstarter
"I knew I wouldn't be capable of doing it without tackling other smaller games first"
- Features
- Interviews
- Donkey Kong
- ROM Hacks
News New Book Celebrating 45 Years Of The ZX Spectrum Smashes Its Kickstarter Goal Day One
The Rubber-Keyed Wonder
- Zx Spectrum
- Books
- Kickstarter
Deadly fun!
- News
- Neo Geo
- PC
- Steam
- Kickstarter
Dead Man Dan returns when we need him most
- PlayStation
- Modding
- PC
- PS1
- Fan Projects
Demon Slay-er
- SNES
- Fan Translastions
- Emulation
- Anime
News Croc 2: Kingdom Of The Gobbos Remaster Hang-Glides Onto PC and Consoles This Month
Tipping the Scales
- Remasters
- Croc
- PlayStation
- PS1
News Taito's Nonsense Platformer Chack'n Pop Stretches Its Legs On The Console Archives
Long Fellow
- Taito
- Arcade
- Nintendo Switch 2
- PS5
News Sega Genesis SRPG 'Vixen 357' Is Coming to Steam, Complete with English Localisation
Steam Hype We're gonna mech it happen
- Upcoming Games
Thursday1st Oct 2026
News Sega Is Resurrecting 'House Of The Dead' In Arcades Using VR
Guns at the ready
- Sega
- House of the Dead
- Arcades
Raise your spirits with this unofficial ROM hack!
- Sega
- Homebrews
- Mega Drive
- Ghostbusters
Review Anbernic RG DS Plus - My New Favourite Way To Play Nintendo DS Games
And for under $100, too
- Reviews
- Emulation Handhelds
- Hardware Reviews
- Anbernic
News RetroSync's GBA-to-Switch Wireless Pokémon Trading Adapter Launches In Early December
No Pokemon left behind
- Pokemon
- Modding
- Nintendo Switch
- GBA
News Summon Night Swordcraft Story 3 for Game Boy Advance Fan-Translated After 10+ Years Of Work
'I had a blast working on this project'
- Fan Translations
- GBA
- Atlus
- RPGs
- Japan
News Bubble Bobble 4 Friends: The Baron Is Back! Is Getting A Physical Edition On Nintendo Switch 2
Let's make a return to the Cave of Monsters
- Taito
- Arcade
- Nintendo Switch 2
News Hell to Pay: Grim And Gothic Gangster Drama The Darkness Has Been Recompiled For PC
Vengeance is Timeless
- PC
- Xbox 360
- Modding
- Homebrews
- Emulation
News Rattle Your Maracas! Sega Samba de Amigo Merch Now Live At The Yetee
Shake, shake, shake, Señora
- Sega
- Merchandise
- Dreamcast
Wednesday30th Sep 2026
"Ending up on Ali Express after all the work I've put into this port would f***ing suck!"
- News
- Namco
- Splatterhouse
- Fan Projects
Super Mario Kart Deluxe arrives this Christmas!
- News
- Mario Kart
- SNES
- ROM Hacks
News Ultra Street Fighter IV Mods Bring Rollback Netcode To The Classic Capcom Scrapper
Indestructible?
- Street Fighter
- Capcom
- Arcade
- PC
- Modding
News Retro Song Bird Is A New Device That Unlocks The Music Of Your Game Boy Cartridges
"I built it to add a little joy and whimsy to the world"
- Nintendo
- Game Boy
- Music
Battle Beyond the Stars
- Shmups
- Steam
- Indies
- PS5
- Nintendo Switch
News Queen's Domain Will Unleash Its Punishing Fantasy Adventure On PC And Consoles In October
Inspired by classic FromSoft series King's Field
- RPGs
- PC
- Nintendo Switch 2
- PS5
- Xbox
News Balloon Bomber (Not The Kirby Villain) Drifts Sloooowly Onto The Arcade Archives This Week
'Hey, where'd Major Kong go?'
- Arcade
- Taito
- PlayStation
- Xbox
- Nintendo Switch
Tuesday29th Sep 2026
News Blaze's C64 And ZX Spectrum Handhelds Have Been Delayed To April 2027
R Tape Loading Error
- C64
- ZX Spectrum
- Emulation
- Emulation Handhelds
News James Pond Legacy GenAI Controversy "Has Damaged Confidence In System 3" Admits Studio Boss
"Whatever direction the wider industry takes, I have heard that message"
- James Pond
- GenAI
News Half-Life Dreamcast Has Been Decompiled, Freeing Source Code And Adding Online Multiplayer
'Rise and Shine, Mr. Freeman'
- Valve
- PC
- Dreamcast
- Homebrews
- Modding
News Newly Discovered Metal Gear Solid 2 Boss Skip Commits The Cardinal Sin Of Avoiding Olga
It's the pits
- Konami
- Metal Gear
- Hideo Kojima
- PS2
- Speedrunning
News Daytona USA Sega 32X Fan Port Is Being Built On The Virtua Racing Deluxe Engine
Daytonaaaaa! Let's Go Away!
- Sega
- Modding
- Fan Projects
- 32x
- Arcade
News Game Boy Classic Tennis Comes To Sega Master System In Full Colour (Including Ref Mario)
Game, Set, Colourmatch
- Sega
- Modding
- Fan Projects
- Game Boy
- Nintendo
"We began discussions with Blaze Entertainment about an alternative route"
- System 3
- Evercade
- Antstream
