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Hudson Soft’s Rune Jade is playable once more. This is now Hudson Soft chose to advertise the game in Japan. The main text reads, “Please don’t leave me alone. Chisato Uehara, 19 years old” Phantasy Star Online is the most famous online RPG on the Dreamcast, but it wasn’t the console’s only stab at the…
A successful operation. Romanian company Epilogue has already scored a hit with its GB Operator, which allows you to play and dump original Game Boy cartridges on your computer, as well as back up save data from your collection. Epilogue’s next product is perhaps even more exciting, as it focuses on the SNES/Super Famicom –…
‘Monster Demolition’ was one of the titles teased before the Lynx’s release. A large haul of Atari Lynx prototypes has recently been recovered and shared online, as reported by Games That Weren’t, the popular video game website dedicated to cancelled and unreleased games. The haul was preserved thanks to the efforts of Marty Goldberg, Mike…
“The main goal of the new approach is to balance accuracy with practical performance on Android”. The Sega Saturn emulator Yaba Sanshiro has taken a big leap forward thanks to a new rendering technique that allows it to overcome one of the console’s biggest quirks. As you may (or may not) be aware, the Saturn’s…
This could have safely guessed that Tetris (Alexey Pajitnov, 1988) would appear in our list of The 50 Most Influential Video Games Ever. There’s a simple reason for this… Tetris is the single greatest video game ever created… No caveats. No clarifications. No exceptions. No qualifiers. Tetris is objectively the finest video game ever made…….
“What could we possibly be working on?”. Piko Interactive has announced it has acquired the rights to two more titles released for the Taiwanese console, the Super A’Can: Kingformation’s Dragon Force – Light Saga (1996), and Horng Shen’s Rebel (1996). This now means the company owns 7 of the 12 games officially released for the…
“Leave behind something useful to humanity when you’re gone”. The team behind the excellent open-source PS3 emulator RPCS3 has been forced to update its guidelines for submitting AI-generated code after being inundated with time-wasting “vibe coded” pull requests. “Please stop submitting AI slop code pull requests to RPCS3,” says the team on social media. “We…
“Whilst this is not the situation which most of us wished for, it is nonetheless the current situation”. If you’re an old fogie like me, then you’ll be aware of Digital Press. One of the earliest sites to truly celebrate and catalogue gaming’s history – both past and present – Digital Press was founded back…
Metal Slug! Zelda! Amiga! Wizardry! Welcome to Retro Recap, a regular feature we run each and every weekend which rounds up all of the best retro gaming news and content of the past week in one place. Read the full article on timeextension.com Metal Slug! Zelda! Amiga! Wizardry! Welcome to Retro Recap, a regular feature…
Shows Sony how it should be done. When it comes to ‘new’ versions of old consoles, there are a few different options on the market right now. Nintendo, Sony and Sega have opted for software emulation on their micro-console offerings, while SNK has teamed up with Plaion to produce the Neo Geo AES+, a forthcoming…