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 fighting-game community keeps a story it tells in a lowered voice, about a version almost nobody played and nobody could prove still existed. For…
Every long-running game series eventually faces the same casting question in adaptation: when does a beloved digital character stop being an Easter egg and…
Every console launch invites the same question: what is actually worth playing on the new machine during those quiet first months? In August 2025, a…
Every mini console ever made sells you the past. In October 2025, Retro Games Ltd released one that threw the past away…
What was the first American review of Super Mario Bros.? It’s a trick question — because by every account we have, there…
Most mini consoles hand you the twenty games everybody already knows. The beige THEC64 Mini, launched in 2018, handed you sixty-four —…
When this list was first sketched in late July 2025, the Lego Game Boy was still a promise. Lego had pulled the covers off set 72046 at San Diego Comic-Con…
Some fan games die quietly, their download pages rotting away while nobody notices. This one got a proper ending, announced by its own makers, in the cadence…
Some actors wait by the phone and hope a famous part finds them. Karl Urban did the opposite with Johnny Cage. When he heard a second live-action Mortal…
On 17 July 2025, Donkey Kong Bananza arrived everywhere at once. The Switch 2 game launched worldwide on a single day, reviews landed globally within hours…