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.
The most revealing thing about February 2026’s favourite Todd Howard quote is where it was hiding. It was not delivered at an Elder Scrolls event, in a…
Somewhere in Nintendo of Europe’s mid-nineties market testing, five Nintendo 64s were built in colors that never reached a shop shelf —…
The strangest thing about the Doom Arena Board Game is not that Doom has become a board game. Doom has been a board game before. The strange part is the…
If you want a single snapshot of what mainstream American gaming looked like in 2025, do not start with awards lists or social-media arguments. Start with…
Every long-running series has one entry the fans argue about. For Ys, that argument is Ys V: Lost Kefin, Kingdom of Sand…
Every few months, another former Bethesda developer says something honest about The Elder Scrolls 6, and the internet briefly treats it like a leak. The…
Every few years, the Fallout fandom performs its favourite ritual: an unwinnable argument. The occasion, in December 2025, was twofold. The television…
Most “lost game” stories end the same way: a prototype surfaces, screenshots circulate, and the thing itself stays legally and physically out…
Most cancelled games stay cancelled. In December 2025, John Romero stood on a panel stage in Madrid and explained, to applause, why his would not — at least…
On Halloween night, 2025, somebody uploaded a ROM to 4chan. That happens every day. What doesn’t happen every day is the ROM…