Fresh Cartridge reporter. Covers launches, remasters and the modern retro scene as it happens. Owns more handhelds than handbags, has opinions about all of them, and filed this bio from a Game Boy she modded herself.
Every Pokemon has a history. It has a place it was caught, a date it was met, a trainer who named it, raised it, and — in many cases — last saw it through…
Every long-serving survival horror player knows the ritual by heart. Somewhere deep into the campaign, usually behind a puzzle, a locked case or a merchant…
Of all the retro revivals 2026 could have produced, “a pocket handheld built around Banjo-Kazooie” was not on our bingo card either.…
There are twenty-three animated Pokémon films, one live-action outlier, and roughly twenty-five years of arguments about which ones actually hold up once the nostalgia goggles come off. Some were cinema events with trading cards in the lobby. Some went straight to DVD, television or Netflix and quietly turned out to be the better films.
Three small plush toys sit in a row on a blanket: a green bulb-backed dinosaur, an orange lizard with a flame on its tail, and a blue turtle. In front of…
Here is a joke hiding inside an anniversary. Diablo turns thirty this year, counting from the first game’s arrival at the very end of 1996, which means its…
Some Zelda merchandise ages into a second life. It gets reprinted, reissued, ported to a newer console generation or restocked when an anniversary rolls…
Every starter needs a starting point, and for this one the calendar did the choosing. Pokemon Day fell on Friday, February 27, 2026, exactly thirty years…
Anniversary collections usually trade on recognition: the box art remembered from a bedroom shelf, the opening stage that can still be played from muscle…
The strangest thing about the return of Kanto was the way it arrived: not with a countdown, a stage or a presenter holding a cartridge aloft, but with shop…