Posted on July 17, 2026
8 Retro Games So Far Ahead of Their Time, the Industry Had to Catch Up
These were the games that experimented with living worlds, player freedom, stealth systems, online competition, cinematic storytelling, and genres that barely had names yet. They were not always the smoothest, easiest, or most commercially successful releases on the shelf. In several cases, their ambition ran straight into the limitations of the hardware.
Posted on May 9, 2026
Atari Buys Implicit Conversions — And That Could Be Huge for PS1 Classics
The company has acquired Implicit Conversions, the emulation studio best known for bringing older games — especially PlayStation-era titles — to modern platforms. That may sound like inside-baseball industry news at first, but for retro fans, this is the kind of acquisition that could shape how more classic games survive, return, and actually play well on today’s hardware.
