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“I remember thinking, ‘Man, this game is hard’”. Former Sony executive Shuhei Yoshida has been speaking about his time with the company at CEDEC 2026 (thanks, Genki), and has opened up about his failure to spot what a huge hit Demon’s Souls would become. Demon’s Souls is the origin point of a series which includes…
“I have no connection to this article”. As you’ll hopefully be aware, here at Time Extension we believe that a healthy community is paramount if the world of games media is going to survive and thrive in the current AI-driven landscape. According to a recent report, half of what is posted online is now created…
Take a step back in time to a time when E3 was king. The Video Game History Foundation has just released a set of new collections related to the early years of the iconic video game trade show, the Electronic Entertainment Expo (better known as E3), and it’s already turning up a bunch of weird…
Finish! The developer behind the N64 port of Tomb Raider is also working on bringing SEGA Rally to the console, it has been revealed. The dev, known as Snake, has shown off some work-in-progress footage of the game in action, and while it’s not quite as fast as it needs to be, it’s still very…
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Nothing tests a collector’s patience quite like a cabinet that refuses to boot. The screen stays black, the coin mechanism clicks uselessly, and the cabinet sits there like an expensive piece of furniture rather than the working artifact it once was. Bringing these machines back from the dead isn’t magic — it’s methodical diagnosis paired…
Long before home consoles dominated living rooms, arcades were the proving ground for gaming’s most daring ideas. Cabinets built between the late 1970s and the mid-1990s often pushed hardware limits that home systems simply couldn’t match. Many of these machines never made the leap to consoles, yet their design fingerprints are still visible in modern…
Arrives digitally this week! A new Commodore 64 is launching later this week from the developers of Gremlin Graphics games like Bounder, Re-Bounder, Bulldog, Future Knight, and Skate Crazy. Thin Ice is expected to release tomorrow (Thursday, July 22nd) and is being developed by Christian Shrigley & Terry Lloyd, both of whom worked at Gremlin…
Crimson and Prime. This is 2018’s SupaBoy SFC, the previous iteration of the handheld Hyperkin has announced that it is re-releasing its SupaBoy portable SNES clone in two new designs. Read the full article on timeextension.com Crimson and Prime. This is 2018’s SupaBoy SFC, the previous iteration of the handheld Hyperkin has announced that it…
“Video games are now a huge global industry”. The UK’s National Videogame Museum is currently running a new event which opens up its gallery to players and fans via “a unique exhibition that puts personal videogame stories, memories andcollections”. ‘Together We Play’ kicked off on 18th July, and aims to celebrate “the communities, collections, friendships,…