Pixel Arcadia’s First Showcase: Review/Re-cap
Pixel Arcadia’s First Showcase Just Happened, and Retro Finally Got Its Own Stage Retro gaming has spent years being the bonus…
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Nostalgia’s Proven ROI & The Indie Gaming Industry
Today’s Indie Games Are Tomorrow’s Nostalgia The Guardian’s Keith Stuart ran a piece this week asking whether gaming is having its…
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Return of Retro (just like we said)
Everyone’s Going Back to the Old Stuff. We Could Have Told You That. Two things happened this month that had nothing…
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Designed to Be Looked At: What Female Game Characters Tell Us About Who They Were Made For
Blaze Fielding is, canonically, a former police officer turned street fighter. In Streets of Rage (1991), she wades through waves…
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Anbernic’s RG SP Is Out Now and It’s Cheaper Than the GBA SP Was in 2003
There’s something a bit funny about a company spending three attempts to perfectly recreate a handheld Nintendo already made two decades…
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Hyperkin’s SupaBoy Returns! With New Paint Job
Hyperkin’s SupaBoy Is Back Again — Same Handheld, Two New Coats of Paint The SupaBoy has had more lives than most…
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Hollywood Ping Pong: Atari signs film deal with Universal Pictures
Atari Just Sold Hollywood the Rights to Pong. Yes, Pong. There’s a particular kind of headline that makes you stop scrolling,…
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Pepsiman Is Back — And You Can Play It In Your Browser Right Now
A one-person project has recompiled the cult PS1 classic Pepsiman to run natively in a web browser — no emulator required!…
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News Roundup: Atari Heads to Hollywood, Xbox Backward Compatibility Hits PC, and Sonic Gets an Arcade Cabinet
After a few weeks off here’s a nice news roundup: Atari Heads to Hollywood, Xbox Backward Compatibility Hits PC, and Sonic…
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When Music Walked Into the Room: My Greatest Crossovers Between Gaming and Music
This piece came about for two reasons. First: I’ve gone back to gaming to escape the nonsense of the job market…
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PlayStation Is Going All-Digital in 2028 — And It’s Not Just About Discs
Sony announced on 1st July 2026 that physical disc production for all new PlayStation games will end in January 2028. From…
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Evercade Neo Geo Arcade 4 Announced — Eight More SNK Classics for June
Blaze Entertainment has announced NEOGEO Arcade 4, the fourth Neo Geo cartridge in the Evercade purple arcade line. It arrives on…
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The Epilogue SN Operator Lets You Play Your SNES Carts on PC — Legally
If you own a collection of SNES or Super Famicom cartridges, the Epilogue SN Operator is probably the most useful piece…
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Twenty-Four Years of Gaming History Deleted to Save £33 a Month
The Digital Press forum went dark in April. Founded in the late 1990s and active for over 24 years, it was…
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The Evercade Boss Is Right — And the Numbers Prove It
Andrew Byatt, CEO of Blaze Entertainment — the company behind the Evercade — has said publicly what the retro gaming industry…