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Game Boy Color Becomes A Frankenstein’s Monster Of Unnecessary Accessories
22.3.2022
A video making its way around the internet shows just how many attachments can be connected to a single Game Boy Color at one time.Read more
Let's Talk About How The Witch Queen Just Turned Destiny 2's Universe Upside Down
12.3.2022
When Destiny first shipped it didn’t have much of a story to speak of. Years later, that’s definitely changed. There’s still plenty of ridiculous jargon, but also characters, conflicts and histories Bungie has spent nearly a decade diligently cultivating. With Destiny 2: The Witch Queen, it’s...
Nintendo Indefinitely Delays War Game Over Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine
9.3.2022
Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp no longer has a release date. Nintendo announced today it’s pushing back the Switch game’s launch as a result of Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. The news comes as many other gaming companies have instituted bans of certain products in Russia as the humanitarian...
Wordle On Game Boy Might Be The Coolest Port Yet
7.2.2022
Hey, have you heard about this game called Wordle? You probably have. At this point, the only people who haven’t heard of Wordle are folks with no internet access, and honestly, it’s likely some of them have heard about it, too. And now, thanks to one clever and bored hardware hacker, the daily...
Who Knew A Game Boy's Insides Could Be So Beautiful?
27.1.2022
Stop encasing your old gaming hardware in resin to make furniture, there is a better way to honor the handheld systems that came before. Art studio Grid is taking apart old Game Boy, PSP, Nintendo DS, and Game Gear consoles, and transforming them into stunning technological dioramas you can hang...
Forget Just Right Clicking, Now We're Printing NFTs With Game Boys
26.1.2022
We can all agree that NFTs suck, right? They chew through energy like termites eating wood and shit out a ton of greenhouse gas emissions, destroying our world one crypto sell at a time. On top of that, you don’t get anything physical, just a digital certificate of blockchain ownership. Thankfully...
Someone Got PS1 Classic Tomb Raider Running On A Game Boy Advance
15.1.2022
Here’s a port I never expected to see, but is now real and can be downloaded today: Tomb Raider on for the Game Boy Advance handheld console. It’s true. And this wild port is only possible thanks to the flexible open-source “OpenLara” project.Read more
20 Years Ago, Nintendo Had Plans To Bring Email, Internet Searching, And Live Streams To The Game Boy Color
26.12.2021
The Game Boy Color was released in 1998, a few years before the earliest and crudest smartphones had hit the market. Back then, the internet was still fairly new and the idea of carrying around a single device that could email people, search the web, send photos and stream live videos was years...
Analogue Pocket: The Kotaku Review
13.12.2021
The Analogue Pocket is the ultimate Game Boy. It can play nearly any Game Boy, Game Boy Color, or Game Boy Advance game, on a bright and colorful LCD with 10 times the resolution of the original Nintendo Handheld, sound piping through a pair of superb stereo speakers. That’s just for starters. Read...
Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Talks About 'Exploitive' NFTs
17.11.2021
NFTs, otherwise known as An Enormous Fucking Scam, are taking root everywhere that someone smells a fast buck and someone else is dumb enough to join them. Which in 2021 is, sadly, a lot of places! So it’s a slight relief, even if it’s only temporary, to see Xbox boss Phil Spencer speak publicly...
Seven Hours With Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion's Free DLC
19.10.2021
With a name like Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion, I was hoping to learn a thing or two about taxes, government regulation, and the ways in which the system fundamentally screws people out of money and property. While I can’t say I learned anything about tax evasion playing this adorable 2D action...
Nintendo's Switch OLED Is Proving A Big Hit In Japan
14.10.2021
Released on October 8, the Nintendo Switch OLED Model arrived with a bang in Japan. In its first three days on sale, the newly updated Switch sold 138,409 units. These numbers are for the Japanese sales week starting on October 4 and ending on October 10. In comparison, during that same period...
Castlevania Advance Collection Is Great, But Emulators Have Spoiled Me
5.10.2021
Turns out Castlevania Advance Collection is real, and it’s excellent, collecting three of the best Castlevania games of all time as well as a fourth pretty darn good one. While the emulation quality is excellent—courtesy of the experts at Japanese studio M2—like many official re-releases, I find...
A List Of Your Fave Celebrities Who Are Now Peddling NFTs
1.10.2021
NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) have exploded in popularity in 2021. This sucks. NFTs use blockchain technology to allow artists and creators to sell a “special type of cryptographic token which represents sgomething unique”, so each token is one-of-a-kind. Though to be clear: only the token itself...
In Just Two Years, Nintendo Fan Completes Game Boy Collection
10.9.2021
Twitter user Shouta is now the proud owner of all 1,244 Game Boy titles. Congrats! Finishing the collection took less time than he thought it would thanks to Twitter’s help. In the US, there were 1,046 games released for the Game Boy, but in Japan, there were 1,244 titles released in retail shops...
Nintendo Confirms The Obvious: It Won't Be At The Tokyo Game Show
3.9.2021
On September 30, this year’s Tokyo Game Show will kick off. Once again, because of the pandemic, the online-only event will not be in person. And, once again, Nintendo will not be showing up. This evening, Japan time, Nintendo tweeted out that it will not be exhibiting its own games at Tokyo Game...
And Now, The Ultimate Retro Gaming Device
2.9.2021
You may have heard rumblings of a magical box capable of flawlessly running games from old-school arcade titles up through the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis. That box is called the MiSTer, and over the past couple of years, it’s completely transformed the retro emulation scene. I’ve been playing...
The Absolute Girth Of This Very Wide Game Boy
13.8.2021
Last year, The Retro Future made a very long Game Boy, and honestly where else do you go from there other than making a very wide Game Boy Advance.Read more
GameCube Emulator Now Has A Built-In Game Boy Advance
23.7.2021
One of the best, but sadly least-used features of the Nintendo GameCube was its ability to talk to a Game Boy Advance. A few games used it, some exclusively, but now a lot more people can hopefully enjoy the idea with the release of a new version of popular GameCube emulator Dolphin.Read more
The 17 Best Games On Xbox Game Pass
15.7.2021
Xbox Game Pass is one of the best deals in gaming today. For $10 a month, you get access to a Netflix-style library of video games that you can download and play whenever you want. Some marquee games hit the service the same day they’re released, as with The Outer Worlds. In other words, it’s...