As promised, Blaze Entertainment has made a slew of new announcements at its anniversary event, the most important being the unveiling of the Evercade EXP handheld. The Evercade EXP boasts a number of improvements over the original Evercade handhelds. Built-in Wi-Fi and USB-C charging port are particularly important additions, butRead More →
Over the past few weeks, since the release of the A500 Mini, a number of downloadable compilations have appeared. More concerningly, USB sticks boasting such downloads, are being sold on Amazon and eBay. But should you trust these products? In the space of just a few minutes, I’ve found twoRead More →
The Wonder Boy Collection is out now for Nintendo Switch and Sony PlayStation 4. To my knowledge, my only experience of playing and of the Wonder Boy games was on the original arcade back in the 80s/90s. I may have had exposure to the later RPG-esque entires in the series,Read More →
Timed to coincide with the new Obi-Wan Kenobi series on Disney+ and other Star Wars Celebration events, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords has been confirmed as arriving on Nintendo Switch in June. The sequel to 2003’s Knights of the Old Republic, Knights of the OldRead More →
Let’s hope Valve doesn’t go all “Nintendo” on this one. The Source VR Mod Team is hard at work developing a Half-Life 2 VR mod that will be free for all gamers who own a Steam copy of Half-Life 2. Some games never die, and the scene over at RavenholmRead More →
Three more classic NES and Super NES games are now ready to play on Nintendo Switch if you have the Switch Online subscription. The games in question are Congo’s Caper (1993) and Rival Turf! (1992), both for Super Nintendo, and Pinball (1983) for the NES. An unusual trio of titles,Read More →
If you bought an A500 Mini on Amazon here in the UK, you could expect it to arrive tomorrow. That has been the case for some weeks now, if not since its April 8th release. But it isn’t the case in other parts of the world, where publicised supply chainRead More →
Anything Xbox can do PlayStation can do better? We’ll see… 23-year-old PlayStation classic Syphon Filter will have trophies on the overhauled PS Plus service – which hints at other backwards compatible games getting trophies – and Xbox community members are fuming steamy levels of jealousy right now. Nearly five yearsRead More →
Andrew Byatt, the Managing Director of Blaze, has taken to Facebook to give Evercade fans an idea of what they can expect for the retro platforms 2nd anniversary on May 31st. Writing in the members-only Evercade Fans Hub group on Facebook, Byatt promised the screening of a YouTube video premieringRead More →
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