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.
Game preservation stories rarely get corrected twice. In the spring of 2025, the tale of the missing Fallout source code managed it. First came the alarming…
Job adverts rarely make gamers sit up. This one did. In May 2025, Microsoft posted an opening for a Principal Software Engineer on the Xbox Platform team…
Most creators who start a YouTube channel to reminisce about their old games get to show off the receipts. Tim Cain, who has spent the last few years telling…
Most game leaks burn brightly for a weekend and then fade into trivia. The Pokémon “Teraleak” refused to fade. Six months after an enormous trove of material…
Some revivals arrive apologising for the past. Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound arrived swinging through it. Announced as a surprise at The Game Awards in December…
On March 31, 2025, Square Enix opened a special website for a game that was about to turn twenty-five years old, and made a promise pitched perfectly to…
Every preservation campaign needs a wound to point at, and Garrett Fredley picked a gecko. Speaking at the Game Developers Conference in March 2025…
For more than a year, the strangest thing about Pokémon Legends: Z-A was its own name. Pokémon titles usually explain themselves: a colour, a metal, a pair…
On 20 March 2025, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion turned nineteen. Bethesda marked the occasion the way a busy relative marks a birthday they almost forgot…
Every few years, somebody famous in games is handed a microphone and asked an impossible question, and every few years the rest of us get a wonderful argument out of it. In March 2025, ahead of the 21st BAFTA Games Awards, it was Todd Howard’s turn.