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If you count yourself among those who love Sega's Virtua Racing, then you may be interested to know about Super Polygon Grand Prix — a new retro-inspired racer coming to Steam Early Access later this year. Developed over four years by the indie developer Rozz Games, it recently came to our...

In October 1984, an evolution happened in the world of computer game graphics; IBM introduced the Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA). Debuting just a few months after the launch of IBM's PC/AT, the EGA standard allowed users to display an expanded palette of 16 colours (from a total of 64)...

It's been an incredibly exciting week for Nintendo, with this week's Direct broadcast giving Metroid fans a first look at the fourth entry in the Metroid Prime series. It's also a bit of a relief to finally see this game in action after an incredibly lengthy development cycle, including a...

When you discussing the most expensive video games of all time, the 1993 Mega Drive shmup Eliminate Down is likely to crop up pretty quickly. Developed by Aprinet and published by Soft Vision, it's one of the rarest games on the console; it never saw release outside Japan and South Korea...

Claymatic Games, the developer of the multiplayer early access brawler Clodhoppers, has announced that it will be bringing out a remake of the cult claymation shoot 'em up Platypus for Steam and consoles (with icons for Nintendo Switch, Xbox, and PlayStation being listed on the developer's...

FIRST PERSON SHOOTER WITH POWERFUL PUNCHES Extinction Rifts: retro FPS with combo mechanics reveals more details in new trailer Inspired by classics and with a dash of humor and exaggeration, FPS pays homage to the golden age of the genre with new gameplay elements Extinction Rifts is a...

Today, the EverSD team has announced that, thanks to a new update, the EverSD homebrew cartridge is now compatible with HyperMegaTech's Super Pocket retro handheld. It enables owners to run homebrew games and develop software on the system like it does on the Evercade. A trailer was aired for...

One game we've now been waiting an entire generation for is Metroid Prime 4. Nintendo originally confirmed the game was coming in 2017 when E3 was still up and running, and this week technically marks the 7th anniversary of this announcement. Since then, it's also been five years since Metroid...

Victory Heat Rally has been a long time coming but the indie title published by Playtonic Friends has finally locked in a Switch eShop release date. It will be speeding onto Nintendo's hybrid system at some point in "winter 2024". The exact date will apparently be shared "very soon". As...

Update [Mon 10th Jun, 2024 16:45 BST]: ZPF is coming to Kickstarter soon – 1st July 2024, to be precise. Original Story [Tue 17th Oct, 2023 10:30 BST]: ZPF is a game we've known about for a while now. Its developer ZPF Team dropped the first teaser trailer for the new Mega Drive / Genesis...

Anbernic is back with yet another retro gaming handheld: the RG Cube. True to its name, this device has a 3.95-inch IPS display with an aspect ratio of 1:1 (720x720). It sports a Unisoc T820 processor and based on Android 13. More specs details can be found below: While the RG Cube has been...

While the pandemic led to a surge in prices for retro video games in the United States after years of the hobby already getting absurdly expensive, the opposite occurred here in Japan where you couldn't walk into a used games store without tripping over good deals. In 2021, I was able to get...

The world of FPGA retro gaming has been dominated by MiSTer FPGA over the past few years, but in more recent times, news of the more powerful MARS FPGA platform has caught people's attention. It looks like MARS might have competition, though, as we've just had a bunch of new intel on a system...

Nintendo today revives the classic RPG Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door for Switch and as part of the celebrations it's prepared a "retro Nintendo GameCube cover". This item is available from the My Nintendo Store (in select locations) for 30 Platinum Points, so you can "print it out and...

Voultar, the modder and engineer behind products such as the SNES RGB, N64 RGB and Wii-U Nand recovery kit, has had his workshop "ransacked" by an as-yet-unknown individual. "I'm sorry, but I'm going to be out of commission for a while. Someone ransacked my lab last night. Almost everything has...

Ninty Media has already scored one success with GameBook: The Unofficial DMG Companion, a guide to the original monochrome Game Boy, but it has now returned with a sequel – this time focused on the Game Boy Color. We were fortunate enough to be sent a copy of GameBook Color and we can confirm...

Namco's Ridge Racer is one of the most popular arcade racing games of all time. Not only did it show the arcade-going public just what was possible with texture-mapped 3D graphics, it also helped Sony launch the PS1 in 1994, becoming the console's earliest killer app. Like so many racing games...

We still see hilariously bad clone systems these days, but back in the '90s, the sheer volume of ropey imitations that flowed from the Far East was a sight to behold. There were countless Famicom / NES replications with often amusing names, all due to the fact that the internal hardware was...

Masahiro Sakurai's latest YouTube video has us looking at our measly game collections in shame as the legendary designer has given a full rundown of his storage solutions for just about every cartridge/disk size that you can think of. It should come as no surprise that this is a man with a...

And there you have it! The Strong Museum has just revealed that Resident Evil, Asteroids, Myst, Ultima, and SimCity are this year's Hall of Fame inductees. The announcement was made yesterday at the museum, which is located in Rochester, New York. In response to the news, some of the developers...