More GoldenEye 007 for Xbox Live Achievements Unlocked – Where’s the Game?!
2022-06-10
The Xbox GoldenEye 007 may still be unreleased, but that hasn’t stopped online achievements being unlocked…Read More →
Ultra-Rare Manfred Trenz Classic Rendering Ranger: R2 Hits Modern Gen Consoles
2022-06-09
Fans of Turrican or the Super Famicom/Super Nintendo Entertainment System may know of Rendering Ranger: R2. A rare game from Manfred Trenz with some similarities to Turrican, the game was limited in its original Japan-only run to a mere 10,000 copies. Unsurprisingly, Rendering Ranger: R2 is something of a collector’sRead More →
You Can Now Play DOOM in the BIOS. No, Really.
2022-06-08
They say you can run DOOM on anything these days. To prove it, playing DOOM in the BIOS is now possible. Forget fridges and microwaves, DOOM has been added to the Coreboot BIOS, with the coreDOOM payload compatible with a number of new motherboards (including Dell Precision T1650 and newRead More →
Nintendo 64 Ray Tracing Developed for Emulators
2022-06-06
Ever wished your Nintendo 64 graphics didn’t look quite as chunky as they seem these days? Well, maybe you have, maybe you haven’t. After all, it’s an era-defining look for video games, with everything from Super Mario 64 and GoldenEye 007 to Wave Race 64 and Ocaraina of Time, andRead More →
GamesMaster: The Oral History Update, 2.5x Longer Than Planned
2022-06-05
Backers of the GamesMaster book, GamesMaster: The Oral History, have received an intriguing update in the past few days. While printing PDFs have been issued to the printer, with a “late August” target for delivery to the publisher’s warehouse in the UK, backers have been blessed with a bonus chapterRead More →
What We Learned from the Evercade AMA
2022-06-04
Blaze’s Sean Cleaver engaged with fans on Discord this week following the unveiling of the Evercade EXP for an ask-me-anything (AMA) session. In a revealing set of exchanges, helped by some intelligent questioning from the community, various facts about the Evercade EXP and the future direction of the entire platformRead More →
Canceled SimCopter 64 Unceremoniously Returns, Thanks to Super Clever Video Game Preservationist
2022-06-04
Aren’t all the games found yet? Jeez… You gotta love game preservationists. SimCopter 64, a mysteriously canceled N64 game, has been unceremoniously revealed to the public via video evidence, and it appears to be fully playable on a custom build. If you aren’t from the era of gaming where projectsRead More →
Sega Announces a Mega Drive Mini 2, Runs Mega CD Games
2022-06-03
During a Japanese Sega live stream, the Mega Drive Mini 2 has been announced, a shrunk down version of the original Mega Drive 2 with 50 games, that can also play Mega CD titles. The Sega Mega Drive 2 was a smaller, lighter version of the Mega Drive/Genesis released inRead More →
Marble Madness II: Unreleased Atari Game Shocking Return After Nearly 30 Years
2022-06-03
Maybe this one should have stayed unreleased. Marble Madness II, an unreleased Atari game, has mysteriously reemerged in the form of a ROM, and no one knows who to thank…or blame. Back in the 90s, when “retro” was current-gen, Marble Madness remained one of the more successful titles for membersRead More →
