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2026.

Everything POCG published in 2026 (restored archive pieces appear under their original dates), plus every game in the Vault released that year.

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Reviews9
Feb 17Ares Rising4.0
Apr 11Armored Core V3.0
Apr 11Ascend: Hand of Kul4.0
Apr 16Wonder Boy III: The Dragon’s Trap4.5
Apr 17Alex Kidd in Miracle World4.0
May 20Kenseiden2.5
May 20R-Type4.0
Jun 10G80 R36S Clone0.5
Jul 12ANBERNIC RG CubeXX4.5
News193
Feb 12Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Volume 2 Officially Launching August 27, 2026
Feb 13Animal Crossing New Leaf
Feb 14Arcade1Up Returns With Pac Man and Sonic for Fall 2026
Feb 15Hideki Sato Passes Away at 77
Feb 15Rayman 30th Anniversary Edition Out Now
Feb 17F-22: Air Dominance Fighter Is Back on Steam
Feb 18Prison City Goes Physical and It’s Packing Crazy Caps
Feb 21The Legend of Zelda turns the big 40
Feb 22Pokémon Turns 30, Pokémon Presents Set for Feb. 27, FireRed/LeafGreen and LEGO Sets Drop Same Day
Feb 22The House of the Dead 2: Remake Infect’Edition Shambles Onto PS5 and Xbox Series
Feb 26Raiden Fighters Remix Collection Launches on PS4, PS5, and Switch
Feb 26Hunt the Night Launches on Switch, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S
Feb 27Nintendo Download Highlights Pokémon FireRed/LeafGreen, Retro Soundtracks on Nintendo Music, and More
Mar 6Rewind 99 Launches into Early Access March 11 After Breakout Steam Next Fest
Mar 7Poker Night at the Inventory Remastered Is Out Now on Steam, Switch, and PlayStation
Mar 7Nintendo Celebrates MAR10 Day 2026 With Mario’s 40th Anniversary and Galaxy Movie Incoming
Mar 9Ys Memoire: Revelations in Celceta Hits Nintendo Switch in the Americas on April 28
May 16Mad King Redemption Enters Steam Early Access With Retro Brawler Action
May 26OmniDrive Firmware Makes Some Classic Game Discs Easier To Back Up On PC
May 28Real Robots Final Attack Gets English Translation After 20 Years
May 28Namco’s Ace Driver Gets Its First Home Release
May 28Samurai Spirits RPG Saturn Hack Unlocks PlayStation Bonus Content
May 31PS4, Xbox One, and Switch physical games are dirt cheap right now and it won’t last
Jun 3Developer is porting 1989 Game Boy Tetris to the Sega Genesis
Jun 4R-Type III’s Original Director Calls Out ININ Games Over Remake Quality
Jun 433 Games Announces Physical SNES Release of Utopia, Gremlin’s 1993 Space Sim
Jun 4Digital Eclipse and Atari Announce Toy Story: Retro Roundup, Out October 15
Jun 4Rumor: licensed Sega handheld with cartridges may be in development
Jun 5Studio MDHR is shipping a real Sega Master System game
Jun 6Capcom announces Resident Evil: Code Veronica remake for 2027
Jun 7Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse launches October 15, made by the Dead Cells team
Jun 7Gears of War: E-Day launches October 6 as an Xbox console exclusive
Jun 7Spyro: A Realm Beyond announced for Spring 2027, first original game in nearly 20 years
Jun 7Crazy Taxi: World Tour announced for 2027, original creator returning
Jun 7Nightdive Studios Announces Thief: The Dark Project Remastered for Winter 2026
Jun 7Hack ’95 Announced: A Card-Based Hacking RPG Set in the Windows 95 Era
Jun 7Company of Heroes: Definitive Edition Announced, Brings 20 Years of Mods Forward
Jun 7RetroTINK 4K firmware v1.21.0 adds user-defined modelines via SD card
Jun 7Xbox Series X25 Limited Edition brings translucent OG Green back for the 25th anniversary
Jun 7Halo: Campaign Evolved launches July 28 on Xbox, PC, and PS5
Jun 9SuperStation One Gets Its First Major Console Mode Release
Jun 9Ocarina of Time Remake Announced for Switch 2
Jun 9Rushing Beat Shura Fan Translation Restores the Japanese Version
Jun 9Square Enix Delists Kingdom Hearts Cloud Versions on Switch
Jun 12Jotego’s CPS3 core hits MiSTer FPGA beta, RetroRemake GUI opens to all
Jun 12Grid Legends online servers shut down September 11 on PlayStation and Xbox
Jun 12Lethal Wedding Genesis Kickstarter hits goal, adds Bill Tiller and Team Fat stretch targets
Jun 14Newer Analogue Pocket units may be breaking Everdrive flash carts
Jun 14Anbernic now sells official replacement parts for its handheld lineup
Jun 14RPG Maker’s official forum closes December 11 with no archive planned
Jun 14Mega EverDrive Firmware v26.0608 Adds 32X Extension Unit Option
Jun 14Ubisoft Confirms Original Rayman Legends Isn’t Being Delisted for Retold
Jun 14Microsoft hasn’t ruled out spinning off Xbox, report claims
Jun 15Sega Is Reopening the Vault: Crazy Taxi, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage and Jet Set Radio
Jun 16Banjo-Kazooie native PC port with randomizer and online co-op announced for July
Jun 16Dragon’s Dogma 2 Deluxe Edition and DLC to be delisted this month
Jun 16Lost SEGA Rally Nintendo DS prototype discovered after 20 years
Jun 16GoldenEye 007’s Cancelled Xbox 360 Remaster Arrives as a Native PC Port
Jun 16Xbox Is Reportedly Closing Compulsion Games, Ninja Theory Also Said to Be at Risk
Jun 18Space Cyclone and Legend of Kage NES Join Arcade/Console Archives on June 18
Jun 19A Lost Atomiswave Football Game Is Finally Playable on Dreamcast
Jun 19Bobby Prince, the Man Who Gave Doom Its Sound, Has Died at 81
Jun 19Shinobi: Art of Vengeance Hits Switch 2 on September 24 with a Physical Edition
Jun 19QUByte’s First ReConnect Showcase Drags the Gaelco Arcade Library Back Into the Light
Jun 20A Sega Veteran Is Quietly Cataloguing All 4,500 of Sega’s Games. He Wants Them All Playable.
Jun 20ArcStation Is a New Solderless ODE for Every Original PlayStation
Jun 20Call of Duty: Black Ops 1 and 2 Getting Native PlayStation Ports, Launch Said for July
Jun 20EU Drops Mandatory Game Preservation Law, Adopts Voluntary Code Instead
Jun 21Sony Quietly Deleted PC From Its Strategy Report and Filled the Gap With AI
Jun 21Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness Gets a Work-in-Progress PC Recompilation
Jun 22The Steam Machine Has a Price, and It’s a Lot: $1,049 to Start
Jun 22Retroid Teases the Pocket Nova, a 4:3 OLED Handheld With Plenty Still Hidden
Jun 22Sony’s Answer to Soaring PS5 Costs Might Be to Just Sell Fewer of Them
Jun 22Metro Siege Is a Brand-New Beat ’em Up Shipping on Real Neo Geo Cartridges
Jun 23A Finished 16-Bit Game From 1994 Is Finally Getting Released, and It’s a Barbie Game
Jun 23The Original Mother Has Been Remade on the EarthBound Engine, After Nearly 20 Years
Jun 238BitDo Marks the N64’s 30th With Wave Blue Gear You Can’t Use on a Switch
Jun 24GTA 6’s ‘Physical’ Edition Is a Cardboard Box With a Code in It and No Disc
Jun 24iam8bit Wants $100 for a New Sonic Genesis Cartridge, and Fans Aren’t Buying It
Jun 24The Original 1994 Arcade Tekken Hits Modern Consoles Tomorrow
Jun 25Dolphin Can Finally Emulate the Game Boy Player, 16 Years After It Was First Asked
Jun 25Xbox Raises Console Prices Worldwide by Up to $150 and Kills the 2TB Model
Jun 26Physical Game Spending Just Rose for the First Time Since 2009
Jun 26Two Retailers Won’t Stock GTA 6 Because the Physical Edition Has No Disc
Jun 26Atari Legacy Is a New Magazine About Atari, Typeset on an Atari
Jun 26Bohemia Has Opened the Source Code to the Game That Became Arma
Jun 27Ecco the Dolphin’s Remaster Is Getting a Physical Release, and Its Creator Is Already Overthinking the Box
Jun 27Anbernic Finally Shows the RG 55G1 in the Flesh, and It Is Going for Premium
Jun 27Three More Games Have Quietly Vanished From the Xbox Store
Jun 27One Man Spent Three Years Documenting Every Namco Museum Ever Made
Jun 28Quake’s Creators Look Back at 30 and Admit What It Cost Them
Jun 29Lost Indiana Jones SCUMM demo recovered by Video Game History Foundation
Jun 29Pokémon Platinum PC port surfaces with source code and no ROM required
Jun 30Sentimental Graffiti remake announced by Entergram
Jul 1PlayStation Will Stop Making Game Discs for New Releases in January 2028
Jul 1Sony Is Closing the PS3 and Vita Digital Stores, Starting Next Month
Jul 1Cruis’n Blast Delisted from Nintendo Switch eShop
Jul 1Oblivion Remastered Hits Switch 2 August 11 with Full Physical Cartridge
Jul 2Limited Run opens pre-orders for Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition physical on Switch 2
Jul 2Xbox reportedly testing disc-to-digital conversion for physical game libraries
Jul 2Empire Interactive abandons 3DO revival after less than a week
Jul 2Boutique physical-edition makers push back on PlayStation’s disc production shutdown
Jul 2Epilogue confirms it’s working on an N64 Operator cartridge reader
Jul 4Open-Source RGR EZBuff Can Restore Your Scratched Game Discs
Jul 4Game preservation leader says piracy is the only option in a discless future
Jul 4Analyst: Nintendo Unlikely to Follow Sony in Dropping Physical Games
Jul 6Xbox Cuts Around 3,200 Jobs and Lets Five Studios Go in Its Biggest Restructure Yet
Jul 8No, Sony’s CEO Didn’t Panic-Sell His Stock Over the Disc Backlash
Jul 9Mario Kart Tour shuts down September 2026, no offline version planned
Jul 9HyperMegaTech’s new Super Pocket packs 34 Activision Atari 2600 games
Jul 9Xbox backward compatibility architect reportedly among Microsoft gaming layoffs
Jul 9Nintendo Switch Discontinued in Europe from Mid-February 2027
Jul 9Double Fine and Compulsion Regain Independence, Keep Their IPs in Xbox Restructure
Jul 9Magical Girl Mega CD RPG Silky Lip Gets English Fan Translation with QoL Fixes
Jul 10PS1 Cult Classic Rhapsody Arrives on Switch 2 and PS5 This Week
Jul 10Full Jaleco Arcade Collection Line-ups Leak via Box Art
Jul 10Video Games Plus Urges Xbox to Stand Behind Physical Releases
Jul 10Lenovo Kills the G02, Its ROM-Preloaded Emulation Handheld
Jul 10MIO: Memories in Orbit Gets a Physical Edition on Switch 2 from Pix’n Love
Jul 12Super Monkey Ball finally arrives on Dreamcast via homebrew port
Jul 12Donkey Kong arcade cabinet gets a 1,367-piece LEGO set, coming in August
Jul 12Retro Fighters Battle Dock Released with Low Lag for Switch 2 GameCube Play
Jul 12FF7 Ever Crisis Shutdown Leaves Before Crisis Unplayable
Jul 12Ganbare Goemon Collection Sneaks in Never-Ported Famicom Shmup Crisis Force
Jul 12RetroTINK 4K Firmware Update Brings Preliminary Lumacode Support
Jul 12Game Boy Color title ORPHEUS: TO HELL AND BACK hits Steam July 13
Jul 12Sony says older PS5 and PS4 games can still be printed on disc after 2028
Jul 12Orbitals physical release on Switch 2 confirmed as full cartridge
Jul 12Sega president says Sonic ‘exists as a symbol’ for the company
Jul 12Ubusuna, Ikaruga successor, may continue development after M2 cancellation
Jul 12Germany’s ICS Game Archive Shuts Down After Losing Public Funding
Jul 12Five Game Boy Games Arrive on Switch Online, Led by Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3
Jul 12Evercade cartridge and Super Pocket prices rise in UK and Europe
Jul 12Minicraft Homebrew Brings Minecraft-Style 3D Gameplay to Game Boy Color
Jul 13Vanishing Point Is Back Online, and the Leaderboard Starts From Zero
Jul 14Super Bomberman Collection adds Japan-exclusive Panic Bomber W as free update on August 20, 2026
Jul 14Outlaws + Handful of Missions: Remaster gets Switch 2 Edition, up to 120 FPS and 4K
Jul 14Linux 7.2-rc3 includes Sega Dreamcast driver fixes as i486 support drops
Jul 14Halo: Campaign Evolved Goes Gold Ahead of July 28 Launch on Xbox and PS5
Jul 14Polymega Collection Vol. 19 Bundles Four Toaplan Shooters, Including Batsugun
Jul 14Fan Translation Unlocks Obscure N64 RPG Zool in English
Jul 15Sony patent suggests PS6 will drop liquid metal cooling after PS5 APU failures
Jul 15South of Midnight dev Compulsion Games seeks co-development partners after Xbox split
Jul 15Hercules no Eikou II: Taitan no Metsubou arrives on PS5 and Switch 2 via Console Archives
Jul 15RomM 5.0 Lands With a Ground-Up Redesign and Cross-Device Save Sync
Jul 15Plungeez, the 16-Bit Plumbing Metroidvania, Gets an August 13 Release Date
Jul 16A New Sega Master System Game Is Shipping on Cartridge, Hand-Drawn Manual and All
Jul 16Konami Put 13 Goemon Games in One Collection, and It’s Staying in Japan
Jul 16Someone Put a Game Boy Camera on a 60-Inch Telescope and Photographed Jupiter
Jul 16AYANEO’s Pocket Micro 2 Is a Premium Tiny Handheld That Keeps Selling Out
Jul 16Next Super Pocket Comes Loaded With 34 Activision Classics
Jul 16A Cult 1999 PlayStation Shmup Disguised as a Robot Anime Is Finally Leaving Japan
Jul 16Toaplan’s Truxton Is Back After 38 Years, Run by the Man Who Made the Original
Jul 16Star Ocean’s Beloved 1998 RPG Keeps Finding New Homes, Now on Switch 2
Jul 16A 1997 Cult Classic Returns: Culdcept Gets Its First New Entry in a Decade
Jul 16RPCS3 Just Crossed 75% of the PS3 Library Playable on PC, Right as Sony Closes the Store
Jul 17One PC Gamer Turned Cheap SSDs Into Working Steam Cartridges, and It Struck a Nerve
Jul 17Capcom’s Midnight Wanderers Is Getting a Neo Geo Version It Never Had, and There’s a Demo
Jul 17Cathedral: Crow’s Curse, a Prequel to the NES-Style Metroidvania, Gets a New Trailer and Demo
Jul 17Syvalion, Taito’s 1988 Dragon Shooter From the Bubble Bobble Creator, Joins Arcade Archives
Jul 17Wipeout 2048’s Online Campaign Is Playable Again, Thanks to Fan Servers
Jul 17Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 Got Pulled From Game Pass at the Last Minute, and It’s the Music
Jul 18Fallout 3 and New Vegas Remasters Confirmed by Bethesda
Jul 18Hyperkin Captain+ N64 Controller with Hall Effect Stick Now Up for Pre-Order
Jul 18Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy hits PS Plus Premium with full trophy support
Jul 19Final Fantasy XIV Mobile Shutting Down September 30, Global Version Cancelled
Jul 19Xbox’s Matt Booty: single-player exclusivity ‘isn’t carved in stone’
Jul 19GameCube Internal Bluetooth Kit v3.5 Pre-Orders Open
Jul 21Dreamcast Core DreamSTer Arrives on MiSTer, Proving the “Impossible” Possible
Jul 21Bandai Namco Reveals Full List of Changes for Tales of Eternia Remastered
Jul 21SNES save states arrive on Analogue Pocket via experimental core
Jul 22Xbox Backward Compatibility comes to PC with four launch titles
Jul 22RPCS3 Now Runs PS3 Games on GPUs From 2007, Because Someone Went and Bought the Old Cards to Try
Jul 22Anbernic reveals RG SP, a stickless clamshell handheld
Jul 23The Blood of Dawnwalker Will Ship Complete on Disc
Jul 23Persona 4 Revival trailer spotlights Chie Satonaka
Jul 23Nintendo asks court to dismiss US tariff refund lawsuit
Jul 23MiSTer Now Boots Disc-Based Games from Any USB Optical Drive
Jul 23Midway Wolf Unit MiSTer Core Plays NBA Hangtime and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
Jul 23Video Game History Foundation Opens Free E3 Digital Archive
Jul 23Xbox Tests Ad-Supported Cloud Streaming for Insiders
Jul 23Analogue 3D Update Adds Internal Graphical Upscaling for N64 Games
Jul 24Sega President: Digital Shift ‘Crucial’ but Physical Media Still Valued
Jul 24Dragon Slayer Level 2.0 Lands on Switch via EGG Console
Jul 25Anbernic Shows First RG SP Gameplay Footage
Jul 25Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Switch 2 Edition Gets Overview Trailer
Jul 25Disgaea Creator Says PlayStation Should Ditch Hardware Without Physical Games
Jul 25Atari and Universal Set 10 Classic Games for Movie Development
Jul 26Xbox Series growth cannot offset US hardware’s post-Switch 2 comparison
Jul 26Dragon Ball Shin Butoden’s Saturn English patch clears a key hurdle
Jul 27The Xbox Outage Took the Discs Down Too
Jul 27Forty Years and a Hundred Games In, Tony Barnes Made an Arcade Shooter on His Own
Jul 27A Free 90s Football Manager Just Added a Country Builder, and It Runs in Your Browser
Features13
Jun 16A Name to Play By
Jun 18The Subsidy
Jun 21The Men Who Handed Me the Controller
Jun 21Player Two: The Games to Play With Your Dad
Jun 29Myst (1993)
Jul 3The Subsidy, Part Two: The Bill Comes Due
Jul 3The Most American Games Ever Made
Jul 6The Man Who Called It Ancient
Jul 9The First Run, and How I Lost It
Jul 9The Box at My Mom’s House
Jul 9The Ten SNES Games That Play Like Summer
Jul 9The Subsidy, Part Three: What They Kept
Jul 21The Ten N64 Games That Play Like Summer
Previews1
Jun 15Untitled Jet Set Radio Game
Released in 202614
Castlevania: Belmont’s CursePS5 / Xbox Series X|S / PC / Switch
Gears of War: E-DayXbox Series X|S / PC
Grand Theft Auto VIPS5 / Xbox Series X|S (PC later)
Hack ’95PC
Halo: Campaign EvolvedXbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, PC
Lethal WeddingSega Genesis / Mega Drive / PC (Steam)
Metro SiegeAmiga / Neo Geo (AES & MVS) / PC
Mighty Cuphead AdventureSega Master System / PS5 / Xbox Series / Switch 2 / PC
MinicraftGame Boy Color
MIO: Memories in OrbitSwitch 2
OrbitalsNintendo Switch 2
ORPHEUS: TO HELL AND BACKGame Boy Color, Steam
Project GorgonPC
Toy Story: Retro RoundupSwitch / Switch 2 / PS4 / PS5 / Xbox Series / PC