One last physical release is being teased, for the 3DS, in the wake of Nintendo eShop’s official shutdown. As a company known for producing limited edition physical-format titles for purists and collectors, Limited Run Games, has carefully timed this final goodbye-release to ride the wave of attention, as Nintendo followsRead More →
What is Retro Games Ltd planning next? On numerous occasions over the past few months the team behind TheC64 Mini and TheA500 Mini have teased an upcoming device. Various ideas have been suggested. Could it be a BBC Micro Mini or some other Acorn computer? Could it be a ZXRead More →
New Wave™ are adding to their family of Replicade mini cabinets this great little Atari licensed machine. It looks, plays, and controls like Atari’s classic Missile Command Arcade Machine and all in perfect miniature at 1/16th the original size. The original was released by Atari in 1980, designed by theRead More →
The Nintendo GameCube features a pair of memory card slots for save games. In May 2023, 8BitMods releases the MemCard PRO GC, a GameCube memory card with a microSD slot and a USB slot. (It also has Wi-Fi.) The idea behind this is simple: that you’ll be able to runRead More →
We’ve already got mini consoles from Sega and Nintendo, but could Microsoft be planning an Xbox classic mini console? Until now, the reaction to this would invariably be “no chance” but a recent interview with Xbox co-creator Seamus Blackley on Time Extension reveals there is almost certainly an idea forRead More →
You’ll need this Evercade firmware update to play the latest cartridge collections. If you own an original Evercade handheld (that is, the white and red, black and red, or purple and white device) then you might have been feeling a little left out following the recent wave of updates forRead More →
One of the most intriguing mobile gaming devices of the past few years is the Playdate. A compact Game Boy-like system with standard buttons, controller, and a hand crank (no, really), it was released in April 2022 after almost three years of development. Software for the Playdate has so farRead More →
In the last breaths of the 90s, a liminal space appeared, through which an illicit opportunity presented itself. At least for me, back when I was renting PlayStation games and getting my brother to burn them for me on his state-of-the-moment home computer. They called them PCs, or “Personal Computers.”Read More →
Bad news if you’re holding onto a Nintendo Wii U console: it might be dead. Various Google searches and a key thread on NeoGAF indicate that Wii Us that are left unplayed for some time can developer a memory error, with no obvious means of recovery. At first, the problemRead More →
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