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.
Most reward guides for a new Pokémon game can be written once and forgotten. This one cannot, because the prize cupboard in Lumiose City keeps being…
A dated deals record, October 2025. Every price below was reported at the time by the outlet named alongside it, and none of them should be read as a current…
Thirteen years separated Ninja Gaiden 3 from its numbered successor, and that gap shaped every review published when Ninja Gaiden 4 arrived on October 21…
Here is a heresy to open an anniversary with: the worst thing Nintendo could do for The Legend of Zelda at forty is exactly what it is best at — looking…
For more than two decades, one of the most admired entries in the Tales series existed in a strange kind of limbo: widely praised in Japan, endlessly…
Anbernic’s smallest retro handheld is a 2.83-inch, 122-gram slab that channels Nintendo’s Game Boy Micro — and between its launch pricing and…
When this post first appeared in October 2025, it was a news story about a fundraiser. Rebecca Heineman, one of the most accomplished programmers of the…
Every serious subject deserves one ridiculous headline, and game preservation found its champion in September 2025. When Final Fantasy Tactics – The Ivalice…
Every long-running band eventually plays a final show, but few get told the venue is closing four days beforehand. On October 1, 2025, Harmonix broke the…
Most remaster announcements begin with a trailer and a release date. The Tales of series has to begin somewhere less glamorous: with a search party. Before…