Taito is helping to expand the Evercade range this year, thanks to the addition of a Taito-themed Alpha bartop arcade and two new Taito Evercade cartridges.

Like the two Capcom variants released last year, the unit will feature dual controls and a bunch of pre-loaded games. It will also have two cartridge slots, so you can play Evercade carts on it. Swappable marquees will be included, along with stereo sound and an 8” high-resolution IPS screen.

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Badger Punch Games' modern-day Amiga title Roguecraft is coming to Evercade, it has been confirmed.

The latest entry in Evercade's single-game cart range, Roguecraft DX "features new levels, new monsters, new music, power-ups, and more," all of which are "exclusive to this current Evercade release."

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Evercade's ongoing collaboration with SNK will give us two new Neo Geo Arcade cartridges this year, it has been revealed.

Retailing for £19.99 / €24.99 / $29.99 and launching in October, both carts can be pre-ordered from August 29th.

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Evercade maker Blaze is celebrating five years of the retro gaming range of systems with a new showcase, and it's one that is sure to be packed with announcements.

The Evercade family includes handhelds, consoles and even bartop arcades, all of which are compatible with a growing range of cartridges.

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Long-time readers of Time Extension will be keenly aware of Bitmap Bureau's quest to release its top-down shooter Xeno Crisis on every consumer device known to man; what began life as a Mega Drive release has since expanded to N64, SNES, Dreamcast and beyond, with the most recent conquest being the humble GBA.

We covered the North American and European variants of that version a while back but have only just gotten our grubby hands on the Japanese iteration—and it's the jewel in the crown, if you ask us.

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The creator of the Video Game History Foundation, Frank Cifaldi, has announced yesterday on social media that the 501(c)3 non-profit organization has recently come into possession of 125 mystery prototype ROMs, which are believed to originally be from Taito Japan.

And, better yet, the non-profit will be doing a livestream in a week's time (on June 5th) where it will be dumping and analyzing their contents live on stream.

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If you're someone who happens to love horror and retro gaming, then we have some good news to share as it appears that a new Clock Tower-esque point-and-click horror title is currently in development for the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis.

Created by the indie developer BadTasty, The Bagman is coming to Sega's 16-bit platform, as well as modern consoles and PC (via Steam), and takes inspiration from horror films and slasher flicks of the past.

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Atari has just had its best financial results in over a decade, it has revealed.

The company made the announcement in its Preliminary FY 20251 Revenues and Business Update (thanks, PowerDubs) and claims that, for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025, "revenues are expected to reach approximately $36M (of which ~$29M from Games), a ~60% growth compared to the previous year."

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Orbital Media's sci-fi action-adventure game Scurge: Hive is getting a rerelease on consoles & PC later this year, Ratalaika Games and Shinyuden have announced.

First released for the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS in 2006, the isometric adventure game saw players inhabit the role of Jenosa Arma, a female bounty hunter who is contracted by the military to embark on a top-secret salvage mission to a science laboratory on a distant planet. It is here that she encounters the titular "Scurge" — a parasitic virus that has transformed the planet's inhabitants into deadly organisms intent on furthering its spread.

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The Bandai WonderSwan was the final contribution of legendary designer Gunpei Yokoi, who had previously worked at Nintendo on its Game & Watch and Game Boy ranges. Released exclusively in Japan in 1999, it offered a low-cost and highly portable alternative to Nintendo's products, but the fact that it didn't come with a built-in 3.5mm headphone jack was an early annoyance.

Part of this will have been down to Bandai's desire to create as small a unit as possible, but it also allowed the company to gain additional revenue from an accessory which allowed 3.5mm headphones to be plugged in (Nintendo performed a similar trick with the Game Boy Advance SP a few years later).

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For the time ever, you can now watch some never-before-seen footage of Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII's lost Chocobo Racing mini-game, thanks to a group of feature phone preservationists.

As you may or may not already be aware, over the last few years, there's been a concerted effort from members of the Final Fantasy fan community and the Keitai Wiki Discord to try and preserve and rebuild the mobile title, which served as a prequel to Final Fantasy VII and focused on a story about the Turks.

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Polymega maker Playmaji has again teased the console's Retro Gun Controller GC01 light gun, which went up for pre-order back in 2021.

The much-delayed gun—based on the Sinden, which can be used with modern-day flatscreen TVs—was pushed into Q2 2024 so that it could "revised for additional compatibility with Polymega App and Remix" (two other products which are yet to see release).

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If you've been keeping track of all the Switch 2 excitement, then you might be aware that the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack is getting some new features, including the ability to rewind gameplay and apply a CRT-style filter.

Now, it's understandable that Nintendo might make some of these features exclusive to its latest console—it did a similar thing with SNES games on the New Nintendo 3DS—but some people have quite rightly pointed out that things like screen filters are not something you'd usually expect to be locked beyond a hardware upgrade, as it's not like they require the power of Switch 2 in order to work.

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Tomorrow, the fourth Evercade Showcase will be broadcast and is likely to contain news about new cartridges and (possibly) new hardware.

The last showcase revealed Neo Geo carts, new Super Pocket devices and more, so what could possibly be in store for tomorrow's event?

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The publisher ININ Games has recently announced it will soon be revealing a new "old" game it has been working on bringing back, but it seems, in an effort to keep expectations in check, it has warned Shenmue fans not to get too excited as it has "nothing to do with your favourite game".

Instead, the publisher has specified that the title is a "totally different type of a game for ININ" and "not the kind of thing normally do", before revealing more "vague details" will follow soon.

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Created by Japanese-born American comic book artist Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo is a cult comic creation that originally debuted all the way back in 1984.

First featured as a comic strip in Steve Gallacci's anthology Albedo Anthropomorphics, and later in issues of the Fantagraphics Books' publication Critters, it also went on to receive its very own comic book in 1987. These all followed the continuing adventures of Miyamoto Usagi, a samurai rabbit, as he made a pilgrimage across Edo-period Japan, encountering bounty hunters, ninja clans, and various monsters from Japanese folklore.

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Andreas Yiannikaris, lead designer on titles such as OlliOlli 2 and Rollerdrome, has posted footage of a mash-up title he's currently tinkering around with in GameMaker, and it's looking very promising indeed.

Lightgun Dungeon is described by Yiannikaris as "Dungeon Master x House of the Dead" and combines a dungeon-crawling perspective with light gun segments where you blow away zombies to earn gold.

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When you're talking about obscure video games, they don't come much more obscure than 1993's Cosmology of Kyoto, developed by Japanese studio SoftEdge. A nonlinear CD-ROM adventure, the game was lucky enough to get a Western release in 1994, and while it wasn't commercially successful, it has since gained a cult following online.

However, as leftfield as Cosmology of Kyoto undoubtedly is, its sequel is even more unknown—in fact, until very recently, it wasn't even known if it had actually been physically released. Entitled TRIPITAKA 玄奘三蔵求法の旅, the game sold on Yahoo Japan in 2023 for almost $300—and video game academic Bruno de Figueiredo has successfully managed to get it preserved online.

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If the constant new stories in the media about AI have got you fearing a Terminator-style uprising, then we have the perfect game for you — a promising new 8-bit-style action platformer from the indie developer and three LD Jam-winner Joel Strange, which allows you to smash and break your way through waves of enemy robots with the use of your fists.

Raw Fists, as the game is called, recently crossed our radar online, thanks to a series of social media posts from its creator, and appears to have been a project that was in development for a while, before being put to one side for an undisclosed period. Earlier this month, however, Strange ended up revisiting the project, deciding to launch a Kickstarter campaign in the near future to help fund the remainder of the PC game's development and finish the project.

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GenesisFan64—a Mexican homebrew coder who worked across pretty much all of Sega's consoles—has passed away, we're sad to report.

The news was broken on social media a few days ago and was spotted by @PigsyRetro, another Sega-focused homebrew developer who is currently hard at work porting Castlevania: Symphony of the Night to the Genesis / Mega Drive.

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While it wasn't as successful as Sony (then known as Sony Ericsson) hoped, the Xperia Play made one heck of a splash when it was first announced.

Combining the promise of smartphone technology with the company's PlayStation brand, the Android-based handset boasted slide-out physical controls and support for a range of PS1 classics and was also a popular choice with emulation fans.

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If you're based in the UK and were alive when the original PlayStation launched, then you'll almost certainly be aware of the various 'Demo' discs which were bundled with the system and given away with copies of the UK's Official PlayStation Magazine.

These discs were essential items when it came to deciding what game you'd be spending your pocket money on next, but they were also audio-visual treats packed with amazing tunes, stunning footage and even some rather freaky 3D effects.

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Zvitor, a prolific creator of unofficial fighting games, has just released his remake of Konami's coin-op X-Men title from the early '90s.

Like the developer's other projects, it's been made using the Open Beats of Rage engine and pulls together characters from other X-Men releases while maintaining the same graphical style.

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We've seen quite a few retro games get the decompilation treatment recently, but there's a new work-in-progress project that is attempting to do something a little different.

The process of decompilation basically turns 'executable' code back into human-readable source code, and zeldaret is doing just that with the N64 emulator used in the GameCube release of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

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During today's livestream, Hamster Corp revealed the third and final game coming to Arcade Archives as part of Namco Month will be the 1993 sports title Super World Court. It will be released on Nintendo Switch & PS4 on May 29th.

Super World Court is a 4-player tennis game that was originally released for the Namco NA-1 hardware — the same hardware that was used for Exvania, Emeraldia, and Cosmo Gang The Puzzle, among others) — and is a sequel to the 1988 arcade game Pro Tennis: World Court.

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