{"id":759221,"date":"2026-07-12T21:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/759221\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T21:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:53:10","slug":"all-the-classic-gaming-news-from-the-past-week-july-12th-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/759221\/","title":{"rendered":"All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (July 12th 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone Used The Game Boy Accessory To Take A Picture Of Jupiter<\/p>\n<p>We get a lot of emails here at Time Extension. For the most part, these fall into two categories: nuisance emails from individuals trying to inject predatory, unrelated gambling links into some of our articles, and spam messages from PR companies we&#8217;ve never heard of, who have never read the site before and want us to cover their latest AI &amp; loot-box-infested MMOs.<\/p>\n<p>Every so often, though, we&#8217;ll find gold: an email from someone who clearly understands what we&#8217;re all about, the latest of which is from the director, musician, and video game fan Chris Graue, whose <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timeextension.com\/news\/2024\/02\/the-snes-tripod-mount-is-a-clever-accessory-for-the-game-boy-camera\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SNES tripod project we&#8217;ve previously covered on the site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As Graue states, since we last covered his latest project, he&#8217;s been a busy chap, and is now &#8220;back with more dumb Game Boy Camera BS,&#8221; having created a telescope adapter for the rudimentary Game Boy camera, to let him take a picture of Jupiter.<\/p>\n<p>This Power Bank Has Become A Daily Driver For My Switch, AYANEO And Steam Deck<\/p>\n<p>While handheld gaming has come on leaps and bounds in recent years, with devices like <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/hardware-review-nintendo-switch-2-a-faster-slicker-sexier-switch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Switch 2<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeextension.com\/reviews\/steam-deck-oled-the-best-just-got-better\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steam Deck<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeextension.com\/reviews\/ayaneo-3-a-remarkable-and-pricey-modular-gaming-handheld\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AYANEO 3<\/a> offering AAA performance in the palm of your hand, there&#8217;s been one big limiting factor across all of these products: battery life.<\/p>\n<p>The shiny new <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/iniushop.com\/products\/iniu-p63-e1-power-bank-smallest-100w-25000mah?utm_source=AFF&amp;utm_medium=AFF-timeextension&amp;utm_campaign=AFF-P63-timeextension-Gloria-2026.06.26\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">INIU Cougar P63<\/a> is one of the roomiest power banks yet seen \u2013 and here&#8217;s why you should give it a look.<\/p>\n<p>Infamous Kickstarter &#8216;Project Phoenix&#8217; Is Alive, But It Might Not Be Out Until 2031<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2013, a <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1300298569\/project-phoenix-japans-indie-rpg-feat-aaa-talent\/description\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Kickstarter campaign<\/a> was launched for the ambitious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeextension.com\/features\/the-man-behind-the-usd1-million-vapourware-rpg-project-phoenix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Project Phoenix<\/a>, a JRPG helmed by Hiroaki Yura. It would smash its funding goal and earn $1,014,600, yet, over a decade later, it remains unreleased.<\/p>\n<p>Amazingly, Yura has confirmed that the game is back in production \u2013 although it won&#8217;t be launching any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview with <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/features\/project-phoenix\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">VGC<\/a>, Yura goes some way to explaining exactly what went wrong with the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the publisher Pix&#8217;n Love Games <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/pixnlove_games\/status\/2072712064489935128\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">shared a tease for an &#8220;explosive&#8221; upcoming announcement related to the Metal Slug series<\/a>, telling its followers to &#8220;Get ready to head back into battle with Marco, Tarma, Fio, and Eri&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With little more to go on than that, fans online inevitably got hyped about the possibility of a new game announcement, with many hoping for <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/day_patch\/status\/2072726860211859553\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a fresh Metal Slug Anthology Collection for modern platforms<\/a>, ahead of <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timeextension.com\/news\/2026\/06\/we-want-to-provide-the-content-our-fans-are-really-looking-for-snk-on-metal-slugs-upcoming-reboot\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the new game&#8217;s release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It seems, however, that they were way off base with their predictions, with <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/gamefound.com\/en\/projects\/pixn-love-games\/metal-slug-30th-anniversary-the-boardgame\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">this &#8220;explosive&#8221; announcement turning out to be a new tabletop board game<\/a>, based on the run &#8216;n gun series that will be heading to crowdfunding sites in the future.<\/p>\n<p>As you&#8217;re no doubt aware, Sony has caused quite a kerfuffle with the announcement that it is <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/news\/2026\/07\/no-disc-no-buy-even-metal-gear-solids-snake-is-mad-at-sonys-physical-games-decision\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ending the production of physical media for its PlayStation 5 console in 2028<\/a>, and intends to make its next machine a <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/news\/2026\/07\/ps6-will-be-a-digital-console-and-sony-has-huge-questions-to-answer-about-backwards-compatibility\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">totally digital proposition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The fallout of this news has been dramatic, with <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/news\/2026\/07\/backlash-against-sonys-disc-free-future-continues-as-petition-passes-200000-signatures\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">petitions<\/a> appearing online in the vain hope of convincing Sony to change course \u2013 but sadly, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/news\/2026\/07\/they-wait-for-this-storm-to-pass-no-chance-of-sony-walking-back-its-decision-to-kill-discs-warns-analyst\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the chances of that are almost non-existent<\/a>, as the world of video gaming is now <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/news\/2025\/09\/everyones-talking-about-how-little-physical-ps5-games-contribute-to-sonys-bottom-line\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dominated by digital distribution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In this piece, Damien explains his conflicted feelings on the sunsetting of physical media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783893190_330_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Damien McFerran\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Damien has been writing professionally about tech and video games since 2007 and oversees all of Hookshot Media&#8217;s sites from an editorial perspective. He&#8217;s also the editor of <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timeextension.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Time Extension<\/a>, the network&#8217;s newest site, which \u2013 paradoxically \u2013 is all about gaming&#8217;s past glories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Someone Used The Game Boy Accessory To Take A Picture Of Jupiter We get a lot of emails&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[3378,258884,74],"class_list":["post-759221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-features","tag-retro-recap","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}