Hardware Gaming Maingear's Retro95 gaming PC blends 90s nostalgia with modern muscle Based on SilverStone's retro-themed chassis By Shawn Knight, July 23, 2025, 12:03 PM
Gaming Tech Culture YouTuber raided by Italian police for reviewing handhelds with preloaded ROMs Up to three years in jail for simply discussing retro game ROMs? By Kishalaya Kundu, July 17, 2025, 3:03 PM 17 comments
Gaming Electronics Commodore 64 returns with FPGA-powered remake, coming this fall starting at $299 Promising 99% accuracy with over 10,000 games - too good to be true? By Daniel Sims, July 14, 2025, 3:05 PM 8 comments
Gaming Tech Culture Doom returns to the SNES in physical form thanks to Limited Run Games Celebrate 30 years of Doom on the SNES By Shawn Knight, July 9, 2025, 11:10 AM 8 comments
Gaming Mobile This is the last chance to own these Sega classics before they're gone from Android and iOS Sonic CD, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, Crazy Taxi, and more now free on mobile, until they're gone By Shawn Knight, June 17, 2025, 12:26 PM
Gaming Electronics Reverse-engineered PlayStation 1 motherboard runs original chips without emulation Replacement motherboards enable retro console repairs By Daniel Sims, June 17, 2025, 9:56 AM 11 comments
Electronics Gaming Namco backs new light gun for modern TVs with Time Crisis built in Premium pack includes arcade classic Time Crisis and more titles By Daniel Sims, June 5, 2025, 7:43 AM 14 comments
Gaming Software Classic 1993 Star Wars X-Wing gets new life with Unity engine mod, modern graphics Mod brings enhanced controls, dynamic music, VR, and visual upgrades to the beloved classic By Daniel Sims, June 3, 2025, 7:44 AM
Download of the Week Gaming Space Cadet Pinball returns, now on Android Miss the satisfying clack of Space Cadet Pinball? The iconic 3D Pinball game bundled with Windows 95 through XP is back, now on Android. This port is the result of a reverse-engineered open-source project, and it's completely free with no ads. By Julio Franco, May 27, 2025, 5:06 PM
Software Gaming Modders use reverse engineering to bring Nintendo GameCube games to PC Mario Party 4 is the first decompilation, Metroid Prime may be next By Daniel Sims, May 13, 2025, 9:14 PM
Gaming Software Original Fallout creator was ordered to destroy source code, then Interplay lost its official archive Archives should always have redundancies By Daniel Sims, April 29, 2025, 3:19 PM 10 comments
Hardware Electronics Evertop DIY PC will give you hundreds of hours of DOS fun on a single charge A retro system that goes big on peripheral support, not so much on raw CPU performance By Alfonso Maruccia, April 29, 2025, 2:32 PM
Gaming Hardware The Atari ST was eight years too early for Doom, but not anymore A native port to an emulated 8 MHz processor By Daniel Sims, April 28, 2025, 4:18 PM
Gaming Apple Whisky, a popular Wine frontend for Mac gamers, is no more Solo dev ends Whisky project, calling it parasitic to CrossOver By Alfonso Maruccia, April 10, 2025, 5:19 PM
Tech Culture Gaming Pixel wall art meets retro gaming in stunning Raspberry Pi 5 project A big 128x128 pixel display housed in an IKEA picture frame By Zo Ahmed, March 23, 2025, 9:07 AM
Gaming Hardware Retro acceleration: The SNES might be running faster as it ages Has the effect increased over time or has the audio processor always operated like this? By Daniel Sims, March 15, 2025, 9:04 AM
Gaming Tech Culture Indie studios and homebrewers are still making great new RPGs with a 25-year-old King's Field toolkit FromSoftware's aging game maker is still cranking out decent retro dungeon crawlers By Cal Jeffrey, March 14, 2025, 4:04 PM
AI Gaming Move over math and reasoning, it's time to benchmark AI using Super Mario Bros. A unique challenge By Zo Ahmed, March 4, 2025, 9:52 AM
Tech Culture Gaming Developer makes Pong playable across 240 Chrome tabs using synced favicons Who said tabs are all clutter? By Zo Ahmed, February 24, 2025, 6:59 AM
Gaming Tech Culture Video Game History Foundation releases trove of game dev documents, magazines, and more Searchable archived documents and never-before-seen development materials available for free By Daniel Sims, January 30, 2025, 8:53 PM
Gaming Hardware SuperStation One reimagines PS One with open-source FPGA hardware Retro Remake console can play PlayStation games, and many others By Shawn Knight, January 28, 2025, 2:06 PM 8 comments
Gaming Tech Culture Classic DOS adventure Last Half of Darkness returns in full 3D after 36 years "Blossom green of sweet Gi-Gi. Add to red and heat up thee" By Alfonso Maruccia, January 28, 2025, 6:50 AM
Gaming Tech Culture Coder shrinks classic Snake game down to a 56-byte QR code Game features a quirky glitch that adds to the challenge By Zo Ahmed, January 14, 2025, 8:16 AM
Gaming Tech Culture A racing heart didn't stop this speedrunner from achieving a new Super Mario Bros. record Just 18 frames away from literal perfection By Zo Ahmed, January 13, 2025, 10:08 AM
Gaming Tech Culture Tetris has been crammed into a tiny 60KB PDF, works in any browser Falling tetriminos find new life in a PDF By Zo Ahmed, January 13, 2025, 6:59 AM