Earlier this week, GoRetroid began teasing that it had an announcement to make on Valentine's Day and it has now pulled back the curtain a little, sharing a new image featuring not one but two new retro-style handhelds.
The first of these appears to be a new take on the Retroid Pocket Flip and features a clamshell design with a stylish GameCube-controller-inspired colour scheme; that's in addition to some notable differences in the layout from its predecessor.
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]]>The topic of preservation in the video game industry is one that repeatedly gets raised. While interactive entertainment generates millions of dollars each year, there doesn't seem to be a lot of joined-up thinking when it comes to properly preserving and cataloguing both games and items of historical interest—such as physical media, such as magazines.
As highlighted by BlueSky user transparency, one of the world's most famous video game reviews isn't readily available anywhere online.
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]]>Hamster, the company behind Arcade Archives, has revealed that it will be releasing Dead Connection as a standalone title on Nintendo Switch and PS4 later this month.
The news was shared during the company's livestream yesterday for the Konami video game Kitten Kaboodle (otherwise known as Nyan Nyan Panic).
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]]>Software engineer Eli Lipsitz has just revealed their next project: an open-source FPGA-based handheld which plays Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance cartridges, as well as ROMs loaded via an SD card.
The 'Game Bub' also supports the Game Boy link cable, has a built-in rumble, real-time clock and and the ability to expand it with other features in the future. It also has an optional dock which offers HDMI-out.
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]]>If you're looking to pick up a classic disc-based retro gaming system these days, then it's worth investigating the world of Optical Disc Emulators—ODEs, for short—as these devices allow you to load game files without having to purchase expensive copies on the secondary market.
One of the most popular ODE options for PS1 is xStation, but it seems as if a new low-cost alternative is now available.
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]]>After years in the wilderness, Capcom's Onimusha franchise has really kicked into life again recently, what with a new instalment (Onimusha: Way of the Sword) and a remaster (Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny) on the way.
That begs the question, will we see more Onimusha titles get the remaster treatment in the future?
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]]>Update : Following last night's State of Play, Konami finally uploaded its release date trailer to its YouTube channel following last week's PlayStation leak, officially announcing the grand return of Snake Vs. Monkey.
But as some, including Wario64, have noted, it appears that the mode will only be present in the Steam and PS5 versions of the game, with Konami instead uploading a separate trailer for Xbox Series X|S players that removes all references to the Ape Escape series. This is undoubtedly down to Sony being the company that owns the Ape Escape IP.
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]]>The toy company Jada Toys has just opened pre-orders for two new 1:12 scale figures based on the Street Fighter characters Sagat and Blanka.
The figures are the latest in an ongoing line from the American manufacturer based on the famous Capcom fighting series, with the company having previously released other collectible figures based on DeeJay, Cammy, Guile, M. Bison, Ryu, Ken, Dhalsim, Chun-Li, and Fei Long.
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]]>Ah, the Dreamcast. Sega's hardware swansong remains a classic piece of gaming technology, even if it didn't sell enough units to prevent the company from exiting the hardware market.
Home to amazing games, forward-thinking technology and the iconic VMU, the 128-bit platform is worthy of your attention in 2025—but did you know it has a secret menu system?
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]]>Famed composer and game designer Yuzo Koshiro is currently hard at work putting the finishing touches to Earthion, his new shmup for the Mega Drive / Genesis, which is also coming to other platforms.
Despite being on the final stretch, Koshiro—who created the soundtracks to games like Streets of Rage, Revenge of Shinobi and ActRaiser—has still found time to think about his next project.
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]]>A patch adding comprehensive rumble support to Wario Land 4 has just hit 1.0, bringing with it a bunch of further improvements and bug fixes.
The Wario fan djedditt initially released the patch for the game back in August 2023 to coincide with the 22nd anniversary of the Game Boy Advance in Japan, with the project aiming to be the first homebrew solution to introduce the fun and tactile feature to the classic platformer.
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]]>Lunar Remastered Collection is coming to all major formats this April, and publisher GungHo has released a new FAQ which attempts to answer some of the burning questions surrounding the releases. "Attempts" is the operative word here, as it has predictably failed to answer some of the more contentious issues surrounding the double-pack of JRPGs.
While the FAQ states that (disappointingly) that there's going to be no collector's edition of the game, it does at least mention that the physical version won't be a limited release, and that "there will be plenty of copies available for everyone interested."
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]]>Update #2 : h0ffman's fanmade port of Golden Axe to Neo Geo is now complete and available to download for free from itch.io.
The port of the game works with MVS / AES and Neo Geo CD set-ups and includes the original arcade difficulty settings, alongside a bunch of other features. This includes game region selectable, a special Neo Geo CD-specific soundtrack (courtesy of Richard Douglas), MVS multi-slot game switching and credits, SoftDIP settings for AES and Neo Geo CD available from the title menu, and support for "most flash cart solutions, real hardware, and emulators"
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]]>A new gaming handheld is paying tribute to the classic Nokia N97. Created by Sugar Cubes, the N97 Elite features a sliding mechanism inspired by the classic mobile phone, and comes in special Gundam and Dragon Ball designs.
According to Notebook Check, the N97 Elite isn't all that exciting when it comes to specs, however. It's rocking 2019's Snapdragon 855+ system-on-a-chip, along with 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage.
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]]>Former Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has been speaking about his time in the video game industry recently, and while he's quick to recall that GoldenEye on Wii almost didn't have guns in it, he struggles to recall the name of one of the UK's most respected (and now defunct) game studios (thanks, VGC).
Discussing the topic of acquisitions, Kotick appeared to offer the example of Bizarre Creations, the Liverpool-based studio—responsible for Sony's F1 games, Metropolis Street Racer, Project Gotham Racing, Blur and Geometry Wars—that Activision snapped up in 2007 for $67.4 million.
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]]>Sony stopped making its PS1 console a few decades ago now, and while we had the PlayStation Classic back in 2018, the Japanese electronics giant is very much focused on modern tech today, pushing its manufacturing might behind the PS5 and PS5 Pro.
However, given the popularity of the PS1, it's easy to understand why some people might be hankering after a factory-fresh console for their collection—something that industrious resellers in Iran are attempting to provide.
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]]>He may have been replaced by "Mr. Dream" in some versions of the game, but for many people, Mike Tyson continues to be the star of the NES Punch-Out!!, released in 1987.
Tyson is the final character the player fights in the game and is as fierce an opponent as his real-world counterpart—so much so that nobody has been able to defeat him in under two minutes. Until now, that is.
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]]>Hamster, the company behind Arcade Archives, has announced that it will be publishing Konami's action little-known action puzzler Kitten Kaboodle (otherwise known as Nyan Nyan Panic) on PS4 and Nintendo Switch on February 13th.
Kitten Kaboodle was first released in arcades back in 1988 and one or two players take control of a pair of adorable cats that must navigate a bunch of single-screen top-down levels filled with blocks.
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]]>Former Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has revealed that one of the co-owners of the James Bond movie series wasn't all that keen on the 2010 GoldenEye reboot having guns in it.
Speaking on the Grit podcast (thanks, Gamespot), Kotick touched upon the divisive Eurocom-made Wii reboot, which retconned Daniel Craig—then the incumbent movie Bond—into the GoldenEye universe, replacing Pierce Brosnan, who starred in the 1995 movie and the best-selling N64 video game, which was developed by Rare.
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]]>Tuiasosopo (left) as E. Honda, fighting Zangief (Andrew Bryniarski) in the 1994 Street Fighter movie
Peter "Navy" Tuiasosopo, who played the role of E. Honda in the 1994 live-action Street Fighter movie, has passed away at the age of 61. The sad news was shared by his son, Manoah Peter Tuiasosopo.
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]]>Update : SelectaPlay and the Vidibond subsidiary Nakama Game Studio have announced that they will be releasing their upcoming reimagining of the Atari ST Bubble Ghost on Nintendo Switch and PC on March 27th.
The game is available to wishlist on Steam and Nintendo Switch eShop now, and will also receive a couple of physical releases for the Nintendo Switch.
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]]>Peter Pepper deserves better. The star of Data East's BurgerTime isn't a household name in the same way that Donkey Kong, Pac-Man and Bub & Bob are, which is a shame when you consider that the original 1982 arcade game was a truly groundbreaking release that remains eminently playable, even by modern standards.
The concept is easy to fathom; you must walk over various parts of a massive burger, causing them to fall and create a 'complete' meal at the bottom of the screen—all while avoiding the unwanted attention of various nightmarish food items.
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]]>Zenovia Interactive, the developer behind the 2021 sidescroller Steel Assault, has released the first Steam demo for its upcoming Wild Guns-inspired shooting gallery Neon Inferno.
Neon Inferno is the next title from the New York game studio and is being published by Retroware, the publisher behind games such as Prison City and Iron Meat. It is scheduled to be released later this year in Q3 2025 and is currently slated to launch across modern platforms such as PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.
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]]>Sega's action puzzler ChuChu Rocket! has inspired a few indie projects over the years, including releases like Lowtek Games' Chew Chew Mimic for the NES and Playdate, and the PC and Nintendo Switch title BlobCat.
Recently, however, a brand new title crossed our radar that aims the frantic stylings of the classic Dreamcast title to the Nintendo Game Boy, swapping the mice of the original for a herd of cows and the cats for UFOs intent on wrangling the cattle for their own nefarious purposes.
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]]>A Steam page has appeared for an upcoming PC release of Examu's 2D-fighting game Daemon Bride.
Daemon Bride, in case you're unfamiliar, is a game that was released exclusively in Japanese arcades back in 2009 and was developed for the company's ex-system arcade hardware. It focuses on a bunch of high school students who have been blessed with special powers thanks to making contracts with a bunch of powerful angels and demons and depicts the subsequent battle between good and evil that ensues thereafter.
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