"The Games of a Lifetime" arrives next year. If you're of a certain age and are from the United Kingdom, then the name Jaz Rignall will ring a few bells. With a career that has spanned almost the entire history of gaming, Rignall helped to establish some of the best-selling video game magazines in the UK, including Mean Machines and Nintendo Magazine System. Read the full article on timeextension.com ..read more

BurgerTime was first released in arcades back in 1982. Numskull Games has announced that Data East's 1982 arcade classic BurgerTime will be the next classic game to join its Quarter Arcade range. The fully playable quarter-scale arcade cabinet is a wooden replica of the original arcade machine and stands 17.4 inches tall and 6.2 inches wide, with a depth of 8.5 inches. Read the full article on timeextension.com ..read more

The 7-in-1 dock was teased earlier this week on social media. The handheld manufacturer GoRetroid has just announced a new dock for its handheld family of systems, over on Twitter. The dock, which will be called the Retroid Official Dock, will apparently be ready to ship next week and already has a preview page up on the website, where it is priced at $29.90 (without shipping). Read the full article on timeextension.com ..read more

A demo is available now on itch.io! Earlier this week, the homebrew developer Cursed Bootleg released the first demo for Trick Tactics, a promising new card-based RPG for the original Game Boy. The demo sees players embark on an epic quest across a fantasy world after their village is attacked by monsters, wandering through various towns and dungeons, gathering food, weapons, items, and money. The twist, however, is that everything here is represented in the form of a card, with players having a choice of four action cards that cannot run out (movement, attacks, examination, and speech), along ..read more

Lord of the Rings. Update : BillyTime!Games has released his patch for Jewel Master. Dubbed "Ring Expansion", it is designed to "allow players to stack the same type of elemental rings for new abilities." Read the full article on timeextension.com ..read more

That's according to a new "leak" from the SDCC show floor. Earlier this month saw the news that Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver would return in the form of a new graphic novel prequel. However, judging from a recent leak from the show floor at San Diego Comic-Con, it appears that there may be more to the revival than has already been revealed. Read the full article on timeextension.com ..read more

Talking classics indeed. Remember when Sega first demonstrated the power of its Dreamcast console by showing a 3D model of then-present Shoichiro Irimajiri being manipulated and illuminated in real time? Well, fast-forward a few decades, and the development community has taken this concept to the next level, thanks to a Dreamcast port of the powerful modular library, raylib. Developer Brielle Garcia has taken a 3D model of the legendary Keith Apicary (a video game-obsessed character created by Nathan Barnatt) and shows it moving in real time, complete with multiple lighting points. "I made a 3 ..read more

Bloody brilliant. Not a week seems to pass without a new porting project for the Genesis / Mega Drive – R-Type, RoboCop, Final Fight, Symphony of the Night, Super Castlevania IV... the list is pretty incredible now. Another notable Castlevania also seems to be coming to Sega's 16-bit system; werton is currently working on a port of the PC Engine classic Castlevania: Rondo of Blood / Akumajō Dracula X: Chi no Rondo, which was originally released back in 1993, exclusively in Japan. Read the full article on timeextension.com ..read more

Powered by Earok's Scorpion Engine. Update : Earlier today, Master Linkuei and Edmo Caldas finally released Hayato's Journey — their unofficial sequel to the Sega Master System game Kenseiden for the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis. As revealed in the description for the game on itch.io, this new adventure will see players take control of Hayato, a descendent of the hero from the original, as they do battle against Yonensai, an evil warlock who has returned from the demon world to exact vengeance on the remaining Dragon family descendants. Read the full article on timeextension.com ..read more

Inspired by Fighting Fantasy and Warhammer. Eligos Games is bringing Traumatarium: Penitent to the ModRetro Chromatic (and Game Boy), it has been revealed. If the name seems familiar, it's because this is the sequel to the original Traumatarium, which was successfully crowdfunded earlier this year. Read the full article on timeextension.com ..read more