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Homebrew publisher Midnight Brew's Allan Turvey has teamed with Gremlin founder Ian Stewart to launch Gremlin Graphics Classics, a heritage label debuting this October.
ModRetro's FPGA-based Nintendo 64, the M64, goes on sale today for $200. The M64 Pro controller is $90 in wired and wireless configurations.
Double Fine has cut 23 of about 90 staff to survive as an independent studio, three weeks after Microsoft spun it out of Xbox with its IP and catalogue intact.
Whistle1, a solo-developed retro football manager, adds a full country editor with 78 templates and Brazil as a playable nation. Still free, still in a browser tab.
A veteran of EA, Crystal Dynamics and Rockstar has released his first solo game in over three decades. It is a vector arcade shooter that owes everything to 1981.
A day-long Xbox outage stopped digital games, and then it stopped disc-based and backward-compatible ones too. The plastic did not save anybody.
Developer kitchen34's English translation patch for Saturn fighter Dragon Ball Shin Butoden has passed a major technical hurdle by rebuilding the game's sprite compression system.
US hardware spending fell 62% year-over-year to $383 million in June, driven by the impossible comparison with Switch 2's 2025 launch, even as Xbox Series spending doubled.
Atari has signed a deal with Universal Pictures to develop movies from 10 classics, including Asteroids, Breakout, Centipede, Missile Command, and Pong.
Disgaea creator Sohei Niikawa says PlayStation may as well eliminate its hardware if Sony removes physical games from the console ecosystem.