Retro Gaming News
A joke worth playing along with. April Fools’ Day is the one day of the year when you have to take every news story with a pinch of salt, and the announcement that Argonaut Games had found an early C64 demo of Croc certainly set our alarm bells ringing. While this is a pretty obvious…
“Watch this space…”. 35 years ago this October, British publisher EMAP launched Mean Machines magazine, a console-focused spin-off of CVG, its leading multiformat monthly. Spawned from the CVG ‘Mean Machines’ section created by Tony Takoushi in 1987, the magazine would become one of the most commercially successful of its era. It lasted 24 issues before…
“Millions of artists are being violated before everyone’s eyes”. If you’re on pretty much any social media platform right now, you’ll no doubt have noticed a massive uptick in the volume of Studio Ghibli-style artwork appearing in your timeline. This is all thanks to OpenAI’s recent update to ChatGPT, which introduces a bunch of tools…
Five Data East classics on one cartridge. Five classic Data East arcade titles are coming to Evercade, it has been revealed. Entitled Windjammers, Karnov & Friends Arcade Collection, the pack will include the following games: Read the full article on timeextension.com Five Data East classics on one cartridge. Five classic Data East arcade titles are…
Hogs of War and Buggy also included. Evercade fans are getting a second helping of Gremlin Graphics goodness thanks to the announcement of a new cartridge collection. Gremlin Collection 2 will ship on a Giga Cart and will include four PS1 titles: Loaded, Re-Loaded, Hogs of War and Buggy. Read the full article on timeextension.com…
Burger Time! Bad Dudes Vs Dragon Ninja! Edward Randy! Blaze’s HyperMegaTech label is launching two new Super Pocket consoles this year. The first is the Neo Geo Edition, while the second one is focused on Data East, the much-loved ’80s and ’90s arcade veteran. Read the full article on timeextension.com Burger Time! Bad Dudes Vs…
Neo Geo Arcade 1 and a Neo Geo Super Pocket arrive this year. Evercade maker Blaze has just revealed the first fruits of its collaboration with SNK. As predicted by many, this includes an Evercade cartridge packed with the following classic Neo Geo titles: Read the full article on timeextension.com Neo Geo Arcade 1 and…
Includes information on the Neo Geo collaboration! The first Evervcade Showcase of 2025 is almost upon us, and we already know that it will contain information about Blaze’s upcoming collaboration with Japanese video game giant SNK. In case you didn’t know, SNK is the maker of the Neo Geo system and owner of franchises such…
Players no longer need the “freeze fix” Canary patch to prevent issues on RPCS3. If you’ve tried to play Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriot in the past using the PS3 Emulator RPCS3, you’ll know that the experience is still far from perfect, requiring a bunch of patches to mitigate some of the…
“They believed that if it’s small it should cost less, not more”. The PC Engine was a huge success in Japan, keeping Sega’s Mega Drive / Genesis in third place and even challenging the might of Nintendo for a few years. However, it’s a system that struggled to achieve the same impact overseas, with its…