Never since the actual release of the ZX Spectrum in 1982, has there been a better time to be a fan of this great British microcomputer. With new hardware releases such as the DivMMC, Just Speccy 128 and Spectranet, our humble little machine has been dragged kicking and beeping into the 21st century. Partial responsibility […]
Sonic Runners is going WORLD WIDE on June 25!!!! #ソニックランナーズ #sonicrunners — ソニック ランナーズ 公式 (@SonicRunners_JP) June 20, 2015 SEGA announced at the Sonic birthday event that’s taking place at Tokyo Joypolis that Sonic Runners will launch worldwide on June 25th. Despite only launching in Japan and Canada, the game has had a decent success up to […]
Sonic Runners is going WORLD WIDE on June 25!!!! #ソニックランナーズ #sonicrunners — ソニック ランナーズ 公式 (@SonicRunners_JP) June 20, 2015 SEGA announced at the Sonic birthday event that’s taking place at Tokyo Joypolis that Sonic Runners will launch worldwide on June 25th. Despite only launching in Japan and Canada, the game has had a decent success up to […]
For many emulation fans, finding something capable of playing Windows based games from around 1998 onwards has been a bit of a chore. Some gamers have resorted to building their own vintage systems, however, there’s a new solution now on offer known as PCem – an old computer emulator capable of running the more high-end […]
While we all know how to successfully clear the first few levels of any Super Mario title, how would a computer fare on its own with no prior knowledge of the game? Using self-learning artificial intelligence, one computer program has managed to successfully battle its way through Super Mario World – albeit with a lot […]
Although E3 may still have a day to go, the gaming exhibition has already pulled out all the stops and left plenty to look forward to. The more surprising aspect to this year’s show though, is that more has been promised to the retro fanatics amongst us than next-gen gamers.
One of the things that I love about retro machines is that they each have very distinctive graphical styles. While games I can play on my PlayStation 4 are scarcely distinguishable from their Xbox One counterparts, it’s hard to mistake a C64 game for a Spectrum game and vice versa – and it’s hard to […]
When you think about some of the most classic video game publishers out there, some names instantly come to mind. Square Enix, Activision, Konami, Capcom among others are just some of the ones that you might ponder. Another big name […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Back in 2005, Sony had teased audiences with a technical demonstration for it’s (then) new PlayStation 3, which had a “Final Fantasy VII” theme to it. Ever since then, gamers have been asking themselves when the real remake was happening. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This year’s E3 show has been absolutely absurd in a number of ways, and there’s been some great retro love out there. The most groundbreaking story has easily been the announcement of Shenmue III as a Kickstarter project during the Sony conference – not only did it break Kickstarter, but it reached its $2 million […]