Retro Gaming News
Not so explosive, after all! Last week, the publisher Pix’n Love Games shared a tease for an “explosive” upcoming announcement related to the Metal Slug series, telling its followers to “Get ready to head back into battle with Marco, Tarma, Fio, and Eri…” With little more to go on than that, fans online inevitably got…
This impacts outstanding orders for the Retroid Pocket 5 & the Flip 2. Now, here’s something you don’t typically hear in the current climate — Retroid has just announced on Discord that it is offering some of its customers a RAM upgrade on their orders, absolutely free of charge. This bump, as reported by Retro…
“The game isn’t over yet, and I hope the studio rallies through”. While we predominantly cover retro gaming here at Time Extension, we often cast our gaze across other sectors of the industry – especially when news impacts long-standing studios with amazing legacies, like id Software. I’m sure it hasn’t escaped your attention that Microsoft,…
Judging by the consistent quality of recent movies and television shows, it’s clear that we’re in a golden age of video game adaptations right now, but decades ago, truly good video game movies were an exception to the rule. In fact, up until the last few years, video game movies were usually guaranteed slop. However,…
Picking a side is easy, right? As you’re no doubt aware, Sony has caused quite a kerfuffle with the announcement that it is ending the production of physical media for its PlayStation 5 console in 2028, and intends to make its next machine a totally digital proposition. The fallout of this news has been dramatic,…
Minicraft is available to download now. Minecraft has been ported to a ton of platforms, both officially and unofficially, over the years, but one platform I think most never expected it to come to was the Nintendo Game Boy/Game Boy Color. These systems, after all, weren’t designed with 3D graphics in mind, and most games…
The KONKR Pocket Advance is “coming soon”. AYANEO is dropping teases for its latest device, and it seems to be leaning heavily on people’s nostalgia for the Game Boy Advance to generate hype. On July 3rd, the company dropped the announcement that a”new product is coming“, with the taglines “the soul of classic handhelds reawakened”…
Chris Graue is back on his BS! We get a lot of emails here at Time Extension. For the most part, these fall into two categories: nuisance emails from individuals trying to inject predatory, unrelated gambling links into some of our articles, and spam messages from PR companies we’ve never heard of, who have never…
“This is just not the kind of thing you visualise at the start of a project”. The Playdate is a handheld device primarily designed with gaming in mind, but that hasn’t stopped developers from putting it to work for all sorts of different use cases. Since its release back in 2022, we’ve seen people take…
“I might have been ready to die happy”. Former Vanillaware artist Yoshio Nishimura has just released the RPG Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle on PC, and he’s been speaking to RPG Site about the involvement of the legendary composer Hitoshi Sakimoto. Sakimoto is famous for his soundtracks for games such as Final Fantasy…