Hyperkin Announces Handheld Console Compatible With Genesis® and Mega Drive Cartridges January 12, 2024 (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles-based video game hardware developer, Hyperkin, has announced they are developing a handheld console, the Mega 95, compatible with original Genesis® and Mega Drive cartridges. In the past decade, Hyperkin has released, to much acclaim, the SupaBoy…
“if we only had to send the data, distribution becomes much more doable”. If you’ve been checking the website regularly this week, you’ll know that we’ve been posting some previously unpublished (in English, at least) materials that we had translated while researching various topics related to Nintendo. Well, here’s another one that we had hiding…
Batteries. You could be forgiven for thinking that at some point battery development just sort of stopped, as Lithium-ion has been the preferred type of battery for our devices since its first commercial implementation all the way back in 1991, and work to find a better alternative has often seemed agonisingly slow. That may be…
Minecraft Legends, the self-described “action strategy” game that sees players command Minecraft mobs in a ceaseless war against invading Piglins, is going into maintenance mode around nine months after its release. Developers Mojang and Blackbird announced Tuesday that they had spent their time since launch taking community feedback on board and using it to implement…
“I think it’s the best-designed game we’ve ever made”. Ste and John Pickford have been making video games for decades, starting with humble home micros like the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 before graduating to the NES and SNES as the ’90s dawned. Such was the prestigious talent of these skilful siblings that their company…
The Diablo 4 Season 3 livestream now has an official date and time. If you’re anything like me, the long wait with no details of the new season was somewhat anxiety inducing, so it’s good we finally have a date to pin. If it’s anything like the previous season livestreams, this Campfire Chat will feature…
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor continues to be an unexpectedly solid game from an accessibility standpoint. Not only is it a soulslike with difficulty options, I also recently gave it a shout-out for having some of the best colour-blind options I’ve seen in a while (as verified by my own chroma-busted eyes). Patch 8 adds some…
Just a few days ago, purveyor of handheld and pocket PCs, Ayaneo announced it’s first SteamOS handheld, called the Next Lite. Two aspects of the launch made it stand out: Firstly, the price would be aimed firmly at the budget sector and secondly, it would be the first non-Steam Deck handheld to retail with Valve’s…
Let’s go away. Sega’s reputation in the world of arcade machines is almost unrivalled; while many of its competitors have fallen by the wayside over the years, the company continues to produce coin-op machines even in 2024 and has decades of glorious history behind it, stretching all the way back to the days before video…
Color me surprised. Remember a short while ago, we reported on an original monochrome Game Boy console being given a second lease of life as a car’s digital speedometer? Well, someone has gone one better than that, transforming the handheld’s successor, the Game Boy Color, into the same thing. Modder James McNichol – who runs…