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.
Full disclosure up front: this is a launch-and-reception feature, not a review. We have not played Donkey Kong Bananza , so there is no score at the end of…
There is a safe way to bring back an old game: polish the sprites, widen the screen, add a rewind button and let everybody feel warm for an afternoon. Then…
Every few months, the same argument restarts. A rumour surfaces, an anniversary post appears, and the question returns: when is Final Fantasy IX getting its…
Anniversaries in games are supposed to end with a bang. A shadow-drop, a logo, a date — something a crowd can scream about. So consider the strange, quiet…
Every games company knows the internet pauses trailers. What Nintendo appeared to forget, in the spring of 2025, is that the internet also un-blurs them. In…
Long before a fog rolled through a fictional Japanese town in Silent Hill f , another small settlement was already frightening readers with almost nothing on…
There is a particular cruelty in a game dying twice in the same week. On 2 July 2025, Microsoft cancelled the Perfect Dark reboot, closed the studio making…
Sonic the Hedgehog turned 34 on June 23, 2025, and this site completely missed it. The traditional apology is cake; ours is…
Some cancelled games vanish so thoroughly that fans eventually argue about whether they ever really existed. Animaniacs: Hollywood Hypnotics was close to…
Most preservation horror stories begin with neglect: a warehouse cleared, a tape reused, a server switched off. Tim Cain’s begins with an instruction. Across…