Fehmi Atalar from Turkey faced off against Leo Soloranzo from Peru.Over the weekend, the largest ever game of Tetris was held at the inaugural Red Bull Tetris World Final, in Dubai, with the help of over 2,000 synchronized drones (thanks VGC ).The match took place on Sunday, December 14th, against...

   Update: Evidence suggests firm is changing hands, not closing down.Arcade1Up, a maker of replica arcade cabinets, is apparently closing its doors.While there has been no official statement as yet, an email shared on social media suggests that the company is closing. Today (Friday) is apparently the...

   Meet the GameMT EX5.The emulation handheld sector is so packed with devices at the moment that you really have to do something unique to stand out from the crowd - and that’s what’s happening with the GameMT EX5, an upcoming portable which has just been shown off by the retailer Roybeila (thanks,...

   DEmul gets its first update in seven years.At the turn of the millennium, Sega took a novel approach when it came to its arcade hardware.Having already laid the foundations with the Titan (ST-V) board, which enabled accurate home ports on the architecturally similar Saturn, Sega released the NAOMI...

   The Quickshot II makes a return next year.Retro Games Ltd, the company behind modern-day recreations of the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amiga 500 and Atari 400, has announced that it’s bringing back Spectravision’s legendary Quickshot II joystick (thanks, VGC).If you grew up in the ’80s and ’90s and...

   Featuring a new character called ’Ralle’.Starshi, the developer of the incredible Super Mario fangame ’Super Mario & The Rainbow Stars’, has announced she will be releasing a second chapter to the game next year, in 2026.Super Mario & The Rainbow Stars, in case you aren’t familiar with it, is a...

   Colour me surprised.Like many gamers of ’advanced’ age, I’ve played a lot of Konami games over the years - perhaps most notably during the early ’90s, when the Japanese company was one of the most renowned names in the industry.Konami released numerous classic games on the SNES, Mega Drive Genesis,...

   He’s done it again .For many gamers in their 30s and 40s, the timeline of video game history shifted at the turn of the millennium when Sega transitioned from a hardware maker to a third-party publisher.The Japanese company had been Nintendo’s rival since the 1980s, and attracted legions of fans...

   Takaya Imamura is the designer of Fox McCloud, Tingle, and Captain Falcon.As you may already be aware, Capcom recently announced what it is calling the 12th official entry in the Mega Man series, Mega Man: Dual Override, and, to celebrate, it is currently hosting a robot masters design competition...

   It’s still in beta, however.NES-to-SNES port master Infidelity has just made the first beta version of his Contra Force port available online. The only thing that is missing are the orchestral DPCM samples for all the BGM tracks, says the developer, who has an amazing track record when it comes to...

   JaJaMaru no Hyakki Yagyou Den was announced this past weekend.This weekend, City Connection put on a special event in Japan, called City Connection 20th Anniversary Thanks Fes, to celebrate the company’s 20th anniversary.At the event, the developer publisher showed off development artwork from...

   Available now.We have some good news for English fans of Bandai Namco’s Idolmaster series.A new fan translation patch is currently in the works for The Idolmaster SP, the 2009 entry in the idol raising simulation rhythm series for the PlayStation Portable.Read the full article on timeextension.com

   Our decision to pursue this legal action is not taken lightly .The resurrected Commodore International has today begun legal action against the Italian firm Commodore Industries to protect legitimate and exclusive trademark rights associated with the original 1958 Commodore brand .The move comes...

   The Trial of Kharzoid is an Arkanoidvania .Ever since some bright spark thought that fusing the names ’Metroid’ and ’Castlevania’ was a good idea, we’ve seen countless ’Metroidvania’ titles appear, some of which have become genuine mainstream smash hits, like Hollow Knight.If you’re a fan of genres...

   And it’s asking its fan to send in their guesses Well, here’s something that we somehow missed. In yesterday’s Arcade Archives stream for Roc ’N Rope, as spotted by Gosokkyu, Hamster teased that it will be releasing something big on Christmas Day to commemorate the company hitting 500 titles.The...

   Could be going up against the Retroid Pocket 5.Just a short while back, we reviewed the Mangmi Air X, a sub- 100 Android-based emulation handheld which provides excellent value for money.The company is now teasing its next device, which will be called the Pocket Max (thanks, Retro Handhelds).Read...

   That’s Mr Ghost to you Another MSX title is set to leap across to Nintendo Switch next week, thanks to the folks at D4 Enterprise.Released in 1989, Yuureikun (or Mr. Ghost, as it is occasionally localized as outside of Japan) is an MSX2 action game from the developer of the action RPG Märchen Veil...

   SuperSega Is Officially Death [sic] .The nature of crowdfunding a product means there’s a certain amount of convincing that needs to happen before supporters will part with hard-earned cash and make a groundbreaking idea become a solid, tangible reality. However, the flip side to that is that...

   Out now on PS5, PS4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X S, Xbox One, and PC.Following a few disappointing delays earlier this year, Bitmap Bureau’s and Reef Entertainment’s new arcade-style Terminator game, Terminator 2D: No Fate, has finally been released across multiple platforms.It is available to...

   Pre-orders open today.Publisher Shinyuden has revealed that the much-delayed Western release of Masaya’s Vixen 357 is still happening - and pre-orders open today.The game was originally released back in 1992 in Japan, the game was developed by Masaya’s Career Soft internal team, the same group...

   The film is expected to hit cinemas in 2026.At last night’s Game Awards, we got our first look at the upcoming Street Fighter film from Legendary and Paramount Pictures in the form of a short sneak peek trailer.The video, which is only 45 seconds long, introduces several of the iconic characters we...

   Life finds a way Back in October, the Japanese publisher City Connection released a press statement announcing that it would be delisting 12 shoot ’em ups from the developer Psikyo from Steam, following the expiration of its licensing agreement.However, it now appears that the 12 titles in question...

   Love Hina: Totsuzen no Engeji Happening came out in the year 2000.The Japanese manga anime Love Hina has had a bunch of different video games over the years for consoles and devices like the Nintendo Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Sega Dreamcast, Sony PlayStation, and PS2.However, none of these,...

   When mobile phone meets the soul of gaming handheld .AYANEO, which is famous for its handheld gaming devices built around Windows and Android, has revealed that it’s putting its considerable talents into making a smartphone.The silhouette of the AYANEO Phone has been shown on social media, along...

   The obscure piece of Breath of Fire history has now been preserved for the ages.It’s been a while since we published an update from the feature phone preservation community, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t been hard at work saving more games from becoming lost media.Case in point, RockmanCosmo...