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Provenance 3.4 is in testing, with beta support for Atari Jaguar CD, Sega NAOMI, NAOMI 2 and Atomiswave. The team’s October 14 development update also details RetroAchievements fixes and changes to controls and video effects. There is no confirmed App Store release date. Provenance is an open-source emulator app for iPhone, iPad and Apple TV.
THE 800XL brings back the Atari 800XL from 1983, with a mechanical keyboard, HDMI output and a working slot for original cartridges. Atari and Retro Games Ltd. unveiled it on 8 October 2026, with a release date of 23 April 2027. The recommended European price is €219.99. The most interesting part of the announcement is
Polaroid Mod was introduced on 29 September 2026 as a new analog instant camera with four creative shooting modes: Double Exposure, Split Shot, Light Painting and Motion Freeze. It gives you a few more ways to experiment with light, movement and composition, with a physical photograph at the end. According to Polaroid’s official announcement, the
Two new Evercade cartridges are on the way: one pairs The Last Ninja with International Karate, while the other brings together four James Pond games. Blaze Entertainment announced both physical releases on 24 September 2026. Pre-orders are open, with the cartridges scheduled to arrive on 4 December 2026. For anyone who grew up with home
Super Pocket Activision Edition. Image: Blaze Entertainment / HyperMegaTech! The Super Pocket Activision Edition is bringing Pitfall!, River Raid, H.E.R.O. and 31 more classics from the Atari 2600 era to a small, officially licensed handheld. It launches on 28 September 2026 and, in addition to its built-in games, supports physical Evercade cartridges. HyperMegaTech!, a brand
Compact discs are finding a new audience, and this time the CD comeback is visible in the numbers. For years, the idea of a CD revival sounded like pure nostalgia. Streaming had become the easiest way to hear almost any song, while shelves full of jewel cases seemed to belong to another time. Still, many
Twenty-five years have now passed since the world’s first webcam, the Trojan Room Coffee Pot camera, was switched off at the University of Cambridge. It did not watch a busy street, a famous building or an important scientific experiment. It watched a coffee machine. The picture was small, grainy and black and white. It had
Retro Games Ltd has confirmed that THEA1200 is officially an Amiga product. One short sentence can carry surprising weight in the world of retro computing, especially when it involves the complicated history of the Amiga name. At first glance, this may sound like a simple branding update. For Amiga fans, however, the word official matters.
Mombosa Games has shared new press material for The Adventures of Godefroy – Episode 1, an upcoming 2D point-and-click adventure built around inventory puzzles, eccentric characters and the visual language of 1990s PC games. The first episode begins with a seemingly ordinary problem: Godefroy needs to catch the school bus. That simple objective soon develops
Before phones became almost identical glass rectangles, a drawer full of electronics could hold a flip phone, a pocket music player, a digital camera and a handheld console. Each had its own buttons, menus, charger and personality. ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs builds an entire game around that lost variety. Mandragora developed ReStory, and tinyBuild published
