Released in Japan by Nintendo on April 21st 1989, the Gameboy was the company's first handheld games console and became an instant classic. Nintendo had been manufacturing Game & Watch handheld devices for years before they introduced their first portable games [...]

Swedish designer, Love Hultén, is famous for his fantastic retro gaming creations. His latest is a thing of beauty. Echoing the look of an old-fashioned CRT television set, Hultén's beautifully crafted unit utilises modern components to provide a unique retro gaming [...]

Famous for Street Fighter and Mega Man, Capcom want you to battle it out at home on their new 'Home Arcade'. Nintendo started the bandwagon rolling, PlayStation jumped on board and SEGA aspire to join them with miniature versions of their [...]

Star Wars Celebration reveals the first look at the next major Star Wars video game Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was first announced by name at the 2018 Electronic Entertainment Expo (or E3 for short) by Electronic Arts. (The then unamed [...]

SEGA's long overdue mini versions of their 16 Bit Mega Drive / Genesis consoles will finally be available on September 19th. SEGA have missed the mini console bandwagon by so much that they may just kick-start a resurgence when the Mega [...]

The ability to play as Marvel's Iron Man is coming to Sony PlayStation VR Virtual Reality can be a great enhancement to video games when done correctly. Marvel has already dabbled in this area to promote Spider-Man: Homecoming. They created a [...]

Here comes a co-op beat-em-up based upon Season 3 of Stranger Things in a delightful retro style Stranger Things, the hugely successful television series from Netflix, will get a new video game adaptation for the upcoming release of season three. Stranger Things already [...]

One of the best-loved game companies of the 1990s may be about to return Lucasfilm Games was a game development and publishing company set up as a division of the Lucasfilm film group by George Lucas in May of 1982. Their first [...]

Originally scheduled for a Spring release, the Atari VCS has now been pushed back to the end of 2019. The 'VCS' is the first console to bear the Atari name since the 'Jaguar' back in the mid-nineties. Drawing design inspiration from [...]

One of the best games to come out of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace receives a 2019 makeover In 1999, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace was released into theatres. This was the first Star Wars film for over fifteen years since the [...]

A new ZX Spectrum game for 2019 based on the popular 1986 sci-fi movie, Aliens Many moons ago, I wrote an article here at The Unheard Nerd detailing the two different releases of the game Aliens for the 8-bit home computers of [...]

If you backed the ill-fated ZX Spectrum Vega+ indiegogo campaign you are urged to register as a creditor. A winding up order has been placed against RCL (Retro Computers Limited) and liquidators are due to be appointed. Anyone that backed the [...]