You know Tetris the moment you see it. Blocks fall from the top of the screen.…
Day: 9 August 2026
Hyper Runner release dates confirmed for Amiga and CD32
Hyper Runner is on the way to AGA Amiga systems and the Commodore CD32, with its…
DERELIKT preview: retro FPS survival horror with a PS1 look
DERELIKT is a retro-style sci-fi FPS with a clear survival horror streak running through it. You…
Mario Kart 8 gets a VR makeover with BetterVR’s new racing mod
Mario Kart 8 could soon feel very different in VR. The developer behind BetterVR is now…
Crash Bandicoot PS1 recomp is now fully playable on Linux and Windows
A static recompilation project for Linux and Windows now lets players run the original PlayStation game…
Why Lara Croft almost looked completely different in Japan
Lara Croft is one of the most recognisable characters in gaming, but her original look wasn’t…
This Tempest 2000 Sega 32X port is getting surprisingly fast
The Sega 32X version of Tempest 2000 has reached v0.0.2, and this update is mostly about…
From clay models to PlayStation: how Skullmonkeys was made
Most PlayStation games started inside a computer. Skullmonkeys didn’t. Its characters were sculpted from real clay,…
Raptor: Call of the Shadows arrives on Amiga with AGA and RTG support
Raptor: Call of the Shadows has made its way to the Amiga. Not through a remake,…
Pokémon Gen 1 gets a 3D voxel release on PSP Vita
Pokémon Red and Blue have been emulated on almost everything with a screen. Pocket Voxel takes…
SpruceOS 4.3 just opened the door to more Anbernic handhelds
SpruceOS 4.3 is here, and this update is mostly about one thing: getting the operating system…
Breath of the Wild VR mod is heading towards a big 1.0 release
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild wasn’t built for VR. BetterVR is trying to…
FIFA 2001’s scratch-and-sniff disc was peak PS1 weirdness
Most PlayStation discs did one job. You put them in the console, waited for the familiar…
Castlevania Symphony of the Night recomp update adds Linux and big improvements
The unofficial Castlevania: Symphony of the Night PC port has just taken a pretty big step…
Frog revives Team17’s Superfrog for Windows and Linux
If you played platform games on the Amiga in the early 1990s, Superfrog is a name…
AmigaAMP update improves streaming, M4A playback and AmiSSL support
AmigaAMP 3.35 is now available for both AmigaOS 3.x and AmigaOS 4.x, bringing a useful set…
Donkey Kong Land Remake adds bigger levels, new visuals and updated controls
Donkey Kong Land has been rebuilt for PC in a new fan-made remake that gives the…
How Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney started Atari with $500
Atari officially started in 1972 with just $500 in cash. That figure sounds almost absurd now.…
Counter-Strike: Source is playable on Switch with controllers, bots and multiplayer
Counter-Strike: Source is now running on Nintendo Switch thanks to css_nx, an open-source port that brings…
Sony once built a PlayStation 2 directly into a Bravia TV
Sony has made plenty of unusual hardware over the years, but the Bravia KDL-22PX300 still stands…
WatermelonDS update targets better Nintendo DS emulation on Android
WatermelonDS has landed at version 0.7.0, and there’s quite a bit going on here. The Android…
How GTA Online’s alien civil war split Los Santos between green and purple players
For a few weeks in 2020, GTA Online became a very different game. Los Santos was…
Black Mesa just opened its doors on AmigaOS 4.1 with a new Half-Life port
Half-Life 1 can now run natively on AmigaOS 4.1, thanks to a new Xash3D-FWGS port by…
This Metal Gear Solid fan remake looks amazing and you can play it now
A new Metal Gear Solid fan remake is now available to download, giving PC players a…
The Half-Life 2 leak that became one of PC gaming’s biggest security breaches
In 2003, Valve had a serious problem. Someone had broken into its internal network and gained…
Rick Dangerous DX hits Neo Geo with remastered graphics and classic traps
Rick Dangerous is back on another machine, and this time it’s the Neo Geo. Rick Dangerous…
How one Halo 2 player outsmarted Microsoft for nearly a month
On 15 April 2010, Microsoft shut down the original Xbox Live service. That should have been…