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23 hours ago | 
timeextension.com | Damien McFerran |Anthony Dickens
NewsPolymegaAtariComes with the Polymega Pro JoystickUpdate []:Polymega's next Element Module is, as expected, an Atari-related one. EM06 Pro Element Module is compatible with Atari 2600 and 7800 cartridges from both North America and PAL regions. It's up for pre-order now and is expected to ship in October 2025.
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1 day ago | 
timeextension.com | Damien McFerran |Anthony Dickens
SNK's CEO is to "transition" into an advisory role, it has been revealed. Former Sega president Kenji Matsubara has been in the position since 2021. His new role will allow him to "continue to lend his expertise and vision," to the Japanese company, which has been owned by the Saudi Arabian MiSK Foundation since 2022. "During his tenure as CEO, Mr. Matsubara has been instrumental in driving the company’s growth and innovation," said SNK in a statement.
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1 day ago | 
timeextension.com | Damien McFerran |Anthony Dickens
As the world of video games has expanded, we've seen changes in the way AAA games are conceptualised, designed, developed, marketed and sold—and one of the industry's most famous game designers thinks we've got things back-to-front.
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1 day ago | 
timeextension.com | Damien McFerran |Anthony Dickens
Super Mario 64 is a solid-gold classic, and for that reason, fans have spent the past few decades digging into the game to find as many secrets as possible. Amazingly, despite the time that has passed since it launched on the N64, it seems the game still has hidden features to reveal.
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1 day ago | 
timeextension.com | Damien McFerran |Anthony Dickens
Shopping for Japanese import games was a little more challenging in the '90s. We didn't have the internet then, so all you had to base your purchasing decision on was the game's cover and, if you were really lucky, a small review in a recent issue of your favourite video game magazine.
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1 day ago | 
timeextension.com | Damien McFerran |Anthony Dickens
Amazon MGM's upcoming movie on the life of NFL legend John Madden will also cover the creation of the best-selling series of Madden video games. Directed by David O. Russell—who is a somewhat troubling figure in Hollywood these days—the movie stars Nicolas Cage as John Madden, the American professional football coach and sports commentator who lent his name to Electronic Arts' long-running and million-selling Madden NFL game series (initially known as John Madden Football).
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1 day ago | 
timeextension.com | Jack Yarwood |Anthony Dickens
City Connection has announced it will be bringing out two new arcade collections in Japan later this year containing 16 classics from the legendary Japanese arcade company Toaplan (thanks Famitsu!). Toaplan Arcade Collection Vol. 1 and Toaplan Arcade Collection Vol. 2 will be released on August 28th, for Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S, and is a compilation that brings together the emulation-based ports that were previously released on Steam by Bitwave Games.
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1 day ago | 
timeextension.com | Damien McFerran |Anthony Dickens
Capcom's Dungeons & Dragons Collection was one of the final Sega Saturn releases in Japan, and brings together the company's two side-scrolling D&D fighters, Tower of Doom (1994) and Shadow Over Mystara (1996). While both games were released in arcades in the West and have since been reissued on new platforms, the sought-after Saturn collection, being a Japan exclusive, has never been available in English—until now, that is.
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1 day ago | 
timeextension.com | Jack Yarwood |Anthony Dickens
Origin System's 1992 release Ultima VII is frequently cited online as one of the best RPGs of all time. So it's understandable that there is a large contingent of players who might still want to revisit it in the modern day. However, as the game was originally developed for DOS, compatibility with modern operating systems is pretty much non-existent, meaning you will more than likely have to rely on resources from the game's community, to get it to run on modern machines.
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1 day ago | 
timeextension.com | Damien McFerran |Anthony Dickens
Without Tomohiro Nishikado, there would be no 'shmup'. When he created the legendary Space Invaders in 1978, he effectively birthed an entire genre, and every 2D shooter created since owes a debt to that single-screen smash-hit. However, in an interview with Time Extension, Nishikado reveals that he's less than enthused about how the genre has evolved in recent times, with "bullet hell" (or "danmaku") shooters being the most popular sub-genre in the realm of shmups.