‘Fallout But In Excel’ does exactly what you think it does, by letting you play a brand new, Fallout-inspired game, in Microsoft Excel. The Fallout franchise is seeing a surge in popularity at the moment thanks to the recent release of the incredible Amazon Prime TV show, which has also seen the enduring Fallout 76 welcome a million new players to its servers six years after its original release. Fallout fever has seemingly gripped the populous then, but how do you get your Fallout fix when you’re at work? Fallout But In Excel might be the answer. Players can explore a post-apocalyptic land ..read more

With all the hype about Game Boy emulators appearing on iPhone, gamers can now rest their iPhones on their Game Boys… sort of. Enter the MagSafe MS W5 Charging Stand, or as most people will refer to it as, the Game Boy Advance SP Charging Stand. Not to be confused with content creator outfitters Elgato, this silicone charging stand is produced by a company called Elago, who advertise the stand as “inspired by a retro handheld gaming device”. IMAGE CREDIT: ELAGO The “retro handheld gaming device” in question is of course, the Game Boy Advance SP, Nintendo’s sophisticated 2003 revision to the G ..read more

Ask anyone what they want to see in a portable handheld, and they’ll tell you that comfortable and reliable joysticks are high up on the list. We see Hall Effect joysticks shipping with a lot of gaming controllers, but not in cost-effective handhelds, and that’s where the MagicX XU Mini M hopes to get ahead of the competition. This handheld is jumping straight into a competition pool with ANBERNIC and Miyoo, two names that regular readers of Retro Dodo will no doubt recognise. Battling it out with the likes of the ANBERNIC RG28BXX and the Miyoo A30 might prove to be a tough challenge, but tho ..read more

A Game Boy Demake of Game Freak’s 2022 Pokémon Scarlet has appeared online, with players able to download the ROM files now. The Pokémon Scarlet Game Boy Demake is the brainchild of homebrew developer 2bitcrook under the appropriately named ‘Game Boy Demakes‘ brand and was created using GB Studio. While not a complete port of the original Nintendo Switch title, the demake does provide inquisitive players with a small section of the game to explore. The creator confirmed on Twitter that the Pokémon Scarlet Game Boy demake is “playable from certain angles” although not fully playable. They cont ..read more

Nintendo has added a duo of Nintendo 64 titles to Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack this morning, with Extreme-G and Iggy’s Reckin’ Balls joining the service. The company made the announcement this morning in a short post on Twitter, accompanied by gameplay footage of Extreme-G and Iggy’s Reckin’ Balls. The pair launched onto Nintendo’s subscription service today and are now available to users with the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack. Extreme-G first appeared on the N64 in 1997. The futuristic racer saw players climbing aboard plasma-powered ‘G-bikes’ and zooming around an array ..read more

A homebrew developer has shared a video of a work-in-progress Sega Dreamcast port of 1997’s DOOM 64 for the Nintendo 64. The port comes courtesy of jnmartin84, the same developer who was working on porting OpenLara to the Nintendo 64 (thanks to thesegaguru on YouTube). Jnmartin84’s DOOM 64 port is currently in ongoing development, with the gameplay video shared online demonstrating an unfinished build of the project, created using KallistiOS and captured on an original Sega Dreamcast. While the video is clearly of DOOM 64, severe graphical issues of the Dreamcast port are everywhere, with tex ..read more

How many games can you remember with the little Infogrames symbol on the bottom of the front cover? Sim City, V-Rally Championship Edition, Unreal Tournament, Rollercoaster Tycoon – these were classic games from our youth that had a massive impact on our love of gaming growing up. Now that Atari is relaunching Infogrames, it means that a slice of our childhoods that was lost in 2003 has, quite literally, come back into play. The French company was responsible for some amazing games and will now be brought back to focus on publishing games and acquiring IP (intellectual properties), and the fi ..read more

When it comes to creating epic custom controllers for our favourite machines, Retro Fighters answer the call every single time. Known for their wireless remotes for retro consoles like the N64 and the original Xbox which we recently reviewed, they’ve now announced a pro-controller for the GameCube with all the mod-cons you’d expect from a controller released in 2024. It’s called the BattlerGC Pro, and it’s a beast! While wired controllers have a sense of nostalgia around them, now that wireless controllers have been on the scene for some time, no-one really wants to be sitting on the floor in ..read more

For the latest in my ‘Let’s Talk Retro’ series of interviews, I reached out to gaming expert and host of Doctor Who: Unleashed, Steffan Powell, to talk about his gaming history and career within games media. Steffan broke ground as the first ever gaming and culture correspondent for the BBC, bringing his warm and energetic presence to the broadcaster’s gaming coverage, including creating and hosting the BBC Sounds podcast ‘Press X to Continue’. Steffan kindly took some time out of his schedule to talk to me about his career in games media, shadowing Hideo Kojima during the production of Death ..read more

A new fandub of Square’s popular role-playing game Chrono Trigger, looks to bring its cast of characters to life with expressive voice overs. The Chrono Trigger fandub comes courtesy of Project: Green Dream, a team comprised entirely of fans of the iconic JRPG, working together to give Crono, Marle, Lucca, Frog, Robo, Ayla and more their own voices in what Project: Green Dream call “an ode to one of history’s greatest games”. A new trailer for the project has just been released on YouTube, with the team teasing that Episode 1 in the series will release “soon”. Project: Green Dream is non-pro ..read more