In case you missed it, Nintendo had another Direct today. Among the announcements for a new Kirby and Paper Mario, Mario and Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games was dated for March 18th, 2016 on the Nintendo 3DS, with the Wii U version hitting shelves on June 24th. Alongside the release dates, Nintendo showed off […]
If you want to know why I’m a quiz show fiend, Blockbusters could easily take as much blame as anything else. It’d come on after CITV had finished, drawing me in with brightly coloured hexagons and a jaunty theme tune, and keeping me entertained with vocabulary-based questions and the infinitely affable Bob Holness. These […]
Since the first arrival of news on the unreleased Super Nintendo CD collaboration with Sony, we’ve closely watched the hidden past between the two companies unfold. With more than enough to be talking about, the last thing we ever expected to be reporting on was the SNES CD’s boot ROM landing at our headquarters.
We’ve been charting the progress of Retro Video Game Systems’ new cartridge-based console for a little while now, and it’s been a bit of a bumpy ride. Originally announced as the Retro VGS, the console hit IndieGoGo back in September of 2015, with the makers promising “a great new video game system built on the […]
The upcoming (and delayed) release of a Conan board game funded through Kickstarter encouraged me to find alternative ways of passing time in Robert E. Howard’s fantasy worlds. After reading through the collected Conan works for a second time, I delved into my gaming room and dug up two floppy discs containing “Conan: The Cimmerian”, […]
Fergus McGovern, a games industry veteran who co-founded Probe Software and HotGen, has passed away suddenly at the age of 50 following a transatlantic flight. McGovern was just a teenager when he co-founded Probe Software with Vakis Paraskeva in 1984, and over the following decade he became known to gamers through his unusual appearances in […]
Dear reader, this is a story of happiness and more happiness and a little bit of confusion spread over a few hundred words. All stories have a start, which comes at the beginning – except this one, which begins before the start. Come to think of it, though accurate that opening is too difficult to […]
Although a fantastic controller in its own right, the Nintendo 64 control pad often falls victim to overuse. Whether it be down to the excessive force applied during Mario Party sessions, or wear and tear through Goldenye 007 tournaments, the analog stick can occasionally come loose and lose its responsiveness. Before you cast any of […]
With the 25th anniversary coming up, it’s only fitting that Archie would do something special for the Sonic the Hedgehog comic. Today, through Comic Book Resource, Archie announced a new Sonic comic based around “Classic Sonic.” Dubbed Sonic: Mega Drive, the one-shot comic is written by Ian Flynn, with illustrations from Tyson Hesse and will be […]
The updated Vega still has several weeks to go, but it’s already smashed its crowdfunding target. Retro Computer Ltd was asking for £100,000 in order to fund its second edition of the Vega and it’s smashed the target effortlessly. It’s currently on £252,000 and shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, we wouldn’t be […]