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 [...]

The rarest of video games consoles, a prototype PlayStation developed by Nintendo and Sony in 1998, is officially going to auction in 2020. Back in October we reported that Terry Diebold was looking for a buyer for his ultra rare Nintendo/Sony [...]

A Nintendo Wii development kit holds a very early version of a Spider-Man 4 game, a film that never was. Spider-Man 4 was to be the continuing adventures of Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker. We'd already had stories involving the Green [...]

Sony’s PlayStation turns a quarter of a century old today. 2019 represents a landmark year in terms of video game console anniversaries. XBox One and PS4 each turn five this year and back in September, SEGA's Dreamcast marked two decades since [...]

An undead cowboy fights his way through Purgatory to regain his memories in this twin-stick shooter. Microsoft just held their X019 event in London, a celebration of all things Xbox. One of the games announced was West of Dead. West of Dead [...]

The awesome click and point Blade Runner adventure is available to play once again. In 1992, Westwood Studios made a large impact on the real-time strategy game genre of the time. Their release of Dune II was a top-down RTS that [...]