Retro Nation 👾
Finding the signal in gaming's past and present. Weekly retro news, plus deep dives on preservation, emulation, ownership, and game design.
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BioWare Is Closing. But Which BioWare Are We Mourning?
BioWare is closing after more than 30 years. EA has also ended development on the next Mass Effect game.
For many players, this is devastating news. And understandably so. We’re talking about the studio behind Baldur’s Gate, Knights of the...
Mizzurna Falls: The PS1 Game That Tried to Build a Living Town in 1998
On Christmas Day, 1998, residents of a small Colorado town begin arriving at St. Peter’s Church. They drive up the hill, park their cars, and gather inside for a meeting about two disturbing incidents involving local teenage girls.
One has...
Modders Are Building the Backward-Compatible PS5 Sony Won’t
Sony has spent years deciding which PS2 games you’re allowed to play on modern PlayStation hardware, then selling selected classics back to players through its storefront and subscription ecosystem.
For years, we heard the excuses. PS2 bac...
Cyberleek Threatens to Release GTA VI’s Entire Story Mode Unless Take-Two Agrees to Physical Discs
The GTA VI leak saga just took another turn.
After weeks of silence, the group known as Cyberleek resurfaced on October 8 with approximately 25 minutes of GTA VI gameplay footage showing missions, driving, and developer tools.
Now the gro...
The Emulator Used to Recreate a Console. Now We’re Rebuilding the Whole Thing.
For most of emulation’s history, the basic idea was easy to understand.
You had a PlayStation game, but you weren’t playing it on a PlayStation anymore. An emulator recreated enough of that old hardware in software for the game to work on...
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