Hello readers! My name is Alex Mitchell and I’m a gaming enthusiast with a background in communications and film & television production. While I don’t have any professional training as a journalist, I still strive to accurately and honestly report on projects, products, and events in the retro gaming community. I could not be more honoured to be contributing to this website and hope you enjoy my articles.
P.S. My definition of “retro” is: If it has been fifteen years or two generations since the end of a game console’s lifespan.
If Valve’s Steam Hardware & Software Survey results are anything to go by, less than 2% of Steam users are gaming on MacOS. Hell, even Linux Steam users outnumber us! With such a small user base, it’s no surprise that fewer developers are opting to support MacOS when it comes to open source projects. It […]
ROM Hacker djedditt has released another rumble-centric ROM hack this week, bringing force feedback to Wario Land 4—including Game Boy Player rumble support! Although there were a handful of carts for the original Game Boy and Game Boy Color that implemented rumble motors, the Game Boy Advance’s relationship with rumble is more fleshed out. Beyond […]
While the Atari of old has been shown some love recently with the release of the excellent “Atari 50: The Anniversary Collection”, as a brand it simply hasn’t been able to stick the landing when it comes to hardware efforts. Whether it’s the million different Flashback consoles or its modern take on the VCS, the […]
(Update #2: August 14, 2023) In the face of legal threats from Cybdyn, danhas42 has taken the perfectly reasonable course of action to not release LiteMenu or its source code. The PS-IOwned project is—allegedly—still working on their own implementation though, but only time will tell how they react to similar pressures. (Update #1: August 13, […]
The GCLoader, a GameCube optical drive emulator from Daniel Kraak (meneerbeer) and Dan Kunz (citrus3000psi), will finally be back in stock this coming Monday, July 31st. Released in 2019, the GCLoader was the first commercially available ODE for the Nintendo GameCube, boasting improved functionality over existing SD card interfaces and (after an awkward initial release) […]
I’m sure I’m not alone in my affection for the indie platformer, “Celeste”. Released in 2018, Celeste’s mix of easy to learn but difficult to master platforming, its driving soundtrack, and its timely narrative made it an indie darling that is still popular today. To wit, ROM hackers w7n, Morshu, StudsX, karmic, and Eden GT […]
PixelFX has just announced that their latest batch of N64Digital kits are en route from the assembly line and will be put up for sale soon through the regular channels. We’ve discussed the N64Digital quite a bit at this point, so if you’re new to the mod I wholeheartedly recommend watching My Life in Gaming‘s […]
The FXPak Pro (nee, the SD2SNES Pro) has received a new hardware revision that should be shipping to customers as of the date of this article. Although functionality seems to be the identical to previous FXPak Pro revisions, Rev.D is different enough that the current beta firmwares are not compatible with it. If you’ve received […]
Sebastian Staacks, the wild Game Boy hacker who was previously seen streaming Grand Theft Auto 5 over a WiFi DMG cartridge, has released another open source project that they’re calling the GB Interceptor. The project’s goals are simple: The GB Interceptor is an interposer cartridge that lives between your original Game Boy and your original […]
2BitBoy, a photographer whose artistic practice seems to revolve around the GameBoy Camera, has developed a pretty rad looking modification kit that allows other Game Boy Camera enthusiasts to have more control over the way it captures images. The 2BitToy kit essentially replaces the existing GB Camera shell and gives photographers the ability to use CS or […]
