A Basic Stadia account is now free for anyone, as long as they have a Gmail account. The Pro account is also free for two months. In a blog post from Phil Harrison, the Vice President and GM of Google Stadia [...]

Like many businesses and organisations, The National Videogame Museum in Sheffield is struggling following closure due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Established in 2018, the National Videogame Museum in Sheffield purports to be the only permanent facility of its kind in the [...]

Amid Coronavirus fears, Niantic have tweaked the mechanics behind Pokémon GO to make the game easier to play alone. As the Covid-19 pandemic sweeps the globe, events like SXSW and E3 have already been cancelled amidst health and safety fears. Many [...]

With a final sale price of $360,000 the rare Sony/Nintendo PlayStation prototype becomes the highest valued console sale of all time. Records may have been set, but the winning bid for the only known prototype of Sony and Nintendo's failed PlayStation [...]

How are EA Games going to remaster 25-year-old FMV footage? Problem is, they have to find it first! Electronic Arts along with Petroglyph Games and Lemon Sky Studios and currently hard at work remastering the classic real-time strategy game, Command & [...]

The man credited with creating the world famous Konami Code has died. Kazuhisa Hashimoto, a Japanese games developer, was sixty one. Kazuhisa Hashimoto worked as a video game developer at Konami in the 1980s and '90s . But his legacy will [...]

The retro gaming community is buzzing as the only known Sony/Nintendo PlayStation prototype is currently up for auction. But will it make that $1m mark? As we reported in December last year, an exclusive and illusive piece of video games history [...]

Designer, Rafael Rubio, has created a beautiful tabletop arcade that combines retro-gaming with antique appeal. This is wood-e. Whilst there's nothing particularly complicated about the innards of Rafael Rubio's retro-gaming 'Wood-w' arcade machine, it's exterior is stunning. Manufactured from machine-milled wood, the [...]

Work begins on the first Atari Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona this autumn and marks the first of eight. Seven more to follow across the U.S. Nostalgia will meet with modernity as guests look forward to a stay in the first ever [...]

These ultra-slim smart audio glasses for gamers incorporate modern tech with a retro aesthetic. They crushed their Kickstarter target within 24 hours. They look like something Tony Stark might have worn before the Thanos snap. But these glasses are designed to [...]

A new twelve stamp collection from the Royal Mail pays tribute to the UK's contribution to video games in the 1980s and '90s. Tomb Raider takes centre stage in the Royal Mails new video games set with a collection of four [...]

Although showcased at the 1994 Consumer Electronics Show, a 16-Bit video game adaptation of the anime phenomenon, Akira, never materialised. Written by Katsuhiro Otomo, Akira was first a Manga comic and then a feature-length anime film. The title was almost singularly [...]