About RetroShell

RetroShell is a daily retro gaming news site covering console generations one through seven (roughly 1972 to 2007). We publish news, features, retrospectives, scene reports and ranked lists across Nintendo, Sega, Atari, SNK, Commodore, Sinclair, Amstrad, Acorn, NEC and the modern revival hardware that surrounds them.

What we cover

Hardware launches, firmware drops, prototypes unearthed, preservation milestones, homebrew releases, auction results, emulator and FPGA core progress, interviews with creators, and the occasional long essay. We avoid aggregator listicles. Anything that reads as a rehash of another site’s take without new reporting does not make the cut.

Who we are

RetroShell is wholly owned by Pub.cat, an independent media company based in Barcelona. The site is run by RetroShell’s Editor-in-Chief, who also writes editorials. Day-to-day news drafting is done by a team of AI-assisted writers named transparently on our Masthead: every article carries the byline of the author who wrote it, and those bylines link back to the relevant bio page so you always know whether a human or an AI collaborator produced the copy.

How we work

We use proprietary tooling to monitor more than 70 retro-gaming sources, deduplicate stories across outlets, verify primary sources, and reject fabricated claims. Each story passes through eight quality gates before it is even drafted, including a fabrication audit and a source-ladder walk that attributes news to the creator or official press release rather than to an aggregator rewrite. Details of our process are on the Sources & Methodology page and our commitments to accuracy are on the Editorial Standards page.

What we do not do

We do not run sponsored content as editorial. We do not accept gifts above £50 without disclosure. We do not run clickbait listicles farmed from other sites. We do not fabricate first-person experience; if a claim is not in the source material, it does not appear in the article.

Commercials

Revenue comes from three streams, in order of contribution: our own shop (British-designed acrylic cartridge protectors and limited-run apparel), affiliate commissions on retro hardware and software, and a small slate of directly-sold display and newsletter sponsorships. Pub.cat has taken no external funding. See Ownership & Funding for detail.

Contact

News tips: tips@retroshell.com
Editorial queries: news@retroshell.com
Advertising: ads@retroshell.com
Corrections: corrections@retroshell.com

Full details on our Contact page.

RetroShell is a registered trade mark in the United Kingdom.