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Worst to Best, With a Hundred Witnesses: Retronauts’ NES Launch Ranking Hootenanny, Annotated
The post you’re reading used to contain six words — “more like the Nutmeg Entertainment System” — which is a punchline in…
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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.
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The Thor Ending That Never Swung Home: The Lost PS1 Cutscene of Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro, Found 24 Years After 9/11
The most useful sentence in game preservation this year may be the shortest one: “Glad I never delete anything!” It was written in September 2025 by a Reddit…
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Fog, Guilt and Great Knives: The Best Silent Hill Monsters Still Renting Space in Our Nightmares
On 25 September 2025, Silent Hill f carried the series somewhere it had never been: 1960s Japan, a fog-drowned town called Ebisugaoka, and a schoolgirl named…
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Pokémon Legends: Z-A Hands-On: Real-Time Combat Turns Battles Into a Whole New Ball Game
For almost three decades, a Pokémon battle followed a familiar etiquette. Two trainers took turns, menus opened, a move was chosen, and everyone waited…
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PopoloCrois Finds Its Missing Chapter: PS1 JRPG Trilogy Completed as Roguelike Spin-Off PopoRogue Gets Its Fan Translation
Some series arrive in English all at once, with a press release and a launch trailer. PopoloCrois arrived the slow way: one game at a time, out of order in…
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Rank and File: Pokemon Legends Z-A Puts the Kalos Starters’ Mega Evolutions Behind Ranked Seasons and Nintendo Switch Online
For about a day in September 2025, it looked like a wrong was finally being righted. Mega Evolution had debuted in Pokémon X and Y back in 2013, yet the…
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After 40 Years, Mario Is Still the Mascot With the Mickey Mouse Effect — No Ears Required
Anniversaries in games usually belong to a title. This one belongs to a face. On 13 September 1985, Nintendo released Super Mario Bros. for the Famicom in…
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Silk Spun on Steam: Silksong’s Biggest Platform Was PC, While PlayStation Missed the Top 50 Entirely
Some launches arrive. Hollow Knight: Silksong detonated. When Team Cherry finally released its sequel on September 4, 2025 — more than six years after the…
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Duty Calls Eleven Times: PlayStation’s 30th Anniversary Best-Selling List Belongs to Call of Duty, With GTA 5 on Top
Anniversaries invite nostalgia, and PlayStation’s thirtieth in North America, marked on September 9, 2025, arrived with plenty of it. The original console…
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Pokémon Legends: Z-A Pre-Order Bonuses: When Free Gifts Went Mega in September 2025
Every big game launch has a phoney war before it, fought not with trailers but with trinkets. In September 2025, with Pokémon Legends: Z-A still five weeks…