Games don’t exist in a vacuum. The decisions made in boardrooms, courtrooms, and government offices shape what gets made, how it’s sold, and who it’s sold to. News & Views is where we cover the stuff happening around gaming — regulation, industry news, and the occasional rant about things that need saying.
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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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Star Fox Is Back — But Is a Lylat Wars Remake Really What We Wanted?
Nintendo telegraphed this one. Fox McCloud’s otherwise inexplicable cameo in the recently released Super Mario Galaxy movie was a signal, not…
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The Nintendo Switch 2 Is About to Get More Expensive — And the PS5 Already Has
Two pieces of hardware news landed this week that are worth taking together. Nintendo has confirmed that the Switch 2 will…
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The White ZX Spectrum Was a Legend. Now You Can Buy One.
The story goes like this. In December 1983, the ZX Spectrum hit one million units sold. To mark the occasion, Sinclair…
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Re:Wired — The Middlesbrough Museum Where You Can Actually Play the Games
Most museums that feature old technology put it behind glass. Re:Wired, which opened earlier this month in Middlesbrough, takes the opposite…
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Twitch Just Legitimised Mogging — And It’s Worth Understanding Why
On Tuesday, Twitch updated its community guidelines to permit the use of Omoggle, a third-party app that uses facial recognition to…
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A Fan Is Putting Punch-Out!!’s Lost Characters Into a Game Boy Color Remake — And It Looks the Part
Punch-Out!! on the NES is one of the most complete-feeling games of the 8-bit era — a tight, precisely designed boxing…
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Looking Back: Ecco the Dolphin (1992)
Most Mega Drive games in 1992 were about hitting things. Sonic hit things by running into them. Golden Axe was entirely…
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Someone Spent Two Years Building a Game Boy Color You Can Wear on Your Wrist
Chris Hackmann — better known online as LeggoMyFroggo — has been making increasingly unhinged Game Boy Color projects for a few…
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Ecco the Dolphin Is Coming Back — And the Original Team Is Making It
On April 22, A&R Atelier — the studio led by original Ecco creator Ed Annunziata — announced Ecco the Dolphin: Complete….
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Atari Just Quietly Assembled the Most Formidable Retro Emulation Operation in Gaming
On April 23, Atari announced the acquisition of Implicit Conversions, an emulation studio founded in 2019 by Robin Lavallée and Jake…
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The Neo Geo AES+ Has Already Broken Its Own Forecast — And It Hasn’t Launched Yet
When we covered the announcement of the Neo Geo AES+ a few weeks ago, the question hanging over the whole thing…
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Manchester: The City That Invented Modern Computing (And Some of the Best Games You Ever Played)
Before we begin — Manchester, Rochdale, Salford, and most of what we’re about to discuss were, until 1974, part of Lancashire….
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Sega Universe — “No Old, Stay Gold”: Sega Is Reviving Its Classic IPs and It’s About Time
On April 24, 2026, Sega announced a project called Sega Universe. The slogan is “No Old, Stay Gold.” The mission statement,…