by Jim Gray | Aug 19, 2025 | News
After being reported on by RetroGameCorps and TechDweeb, Retroid is addressing a major performance issue with its new Dual Screen Add-on external display. Launch units suffered from a delay of roughly three frames, something that the company knew about at the time of... 
by Jim Gray | Aug 18, 2025 | Features
Skateboarding games began, in earnest, in the arcades. In last week’s Radical Retrospective, we talked Atari’s 720º, the first major milestone in skateboarding games. 720º went on to spawn a half-dozen imitators in the 1980s, but by the time the 1990s... 
by Jim Gray | Aug 11, 2025 | News
The Virtual Boy emulation scene has hit a major milestone: skyfloogle has officially released the 1.0 version of Red Viper, a 3D-compatible Virtual Boy emulator for the 3DS family of handhelds. This is a major milestone for the emulator, and according to the dev, it... 
by Jim Gray | Aug 11, 2025 | News
We’ve previously detailed XU Retro’s catchily-named XU20 v32, the first of three devices XU Retro intend to release this year, and after much anticipation you can now order from the first batch of 600 units on XU Retro’s site. The device aims to be a... 
by Jim Gray | Aug 11, 2025 | Features
“Nobody asked for this” – my editor upon proofreading this, probably. Skateboarding games broke out of niche status with 1999’s ‘Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater’. A perfect storm of peaking cultural interest in the sport, Tony’s...