Retro Gaming News
Owlet’s Embrace releases Q4 2025. Back in July 2022, when we originally reviewed the Playdate, we weren’t shy about the fact that we loved Panic’s crank-based system, calling it “a throwback to a time when handheld video gaming was a simpler, more innocent pastime, and every new experience felt fresh and exciting.” And ever since…
And support for modern controllers. Yesterday GOG announced that Silent Hill 4: The Room has been added to the GOG Preservation Program, bringing with it a bunch of improvements such as the restoration of missing PS2 content and support for modern controllers. The fourth entry in the Silent Hill franchise, Silent Hill 4: The Room…
“Today, I had a good meeting with our Altera partner”. Since its inception in 2017, the MiSTer FPGA project has grown to become one of retro gaming’s most popular platforms. Harnessing Field-Programmable Gate Array technology, the system is capable of emulating a host of consoles, handhelds, computers, and arcade machines at a hardware level, offering…
We chatted briefly with Matt Boson, director of the upcoming enhanced port. When WayForward and Limited Run Games announced that they were planning to resurrect the GBA classic Sigma Star Saga earlier this year for GBA, PC, and modern consoles, it attracted a lot of excitement online — especially among those who had previously played…
Who doesn’t love board games? Their ability to bring people together and offer a welcome break from screen time is refreshing – and it’s great to win too! However, long gone are the days when we had to set out dozens of tiny pieces or deal out hands of cards. Now, our favourites are available…
Dust off that GB Micro, soldier. Bitmap Bureau may have recently been in the headlines for its promising-looking Terminator 2 video game, but what is arguably the company’s most famous creation is getting a new lease of life thanks to its release on the GBA. Xeno Crisis is already available on a mind-bending number of…
Features 1 route and 6 new levels to play through. The Star Fox ROM hacker SunlitSpace has recently revealed a huge, new update to one of their earliest hacks, incorporating new graphics, redesigning several levels, and ironing out a bunch of lingering issues. Sunlit’s Untitled Star Fox Minihack was originally built over the course of…
Something slightly different for your evening entertainment, as we have recently been contacted through Facebook, to tell you that if you love playing puzzle games, then you might like to play this new game by Frank Abbing called ‘Safe Zone’. A top quality sliding puzzler, that pits you against the computer. To coincide with this news,…
Releases in Japan this July. Last year, it was confirmed that another classic retro platform was getting the ‘micro console’ treatment: the Japan-only NEC PC-8801 mkII SR personal computer, originally released in 1985. It has now been revealed that legendary composer and game designer Yuzo Koshiro is collaborating with manufacturer Dempa Shimbun to promote the…
He IS the father of PlayStation, so it figures. Ten years ago, the mythical ‘Nintendo PlayStation’ became a solid reality when a prototype was discovered. This would eventually change hands for $360,000 in 2020, and was believed to be the only surviving example of the unreleased system—until now, that is. Japan-based videographer and photographer Julian…