The Gex games are getting a remaster, for some reason

[ghostbloke]

@Amstrad

Emulation is often how people are already playing these older console games, though it would be great if the rights holders would support some sort of legitimate legal form of that activity.

That’s what this is. It’s not a Gex remaster. Limited Run Games’ emulator, Carbon Engine, now supports PlayStation 1 emulation and they announced licensed emulation of the PS1 releases of Gex games along with Tomba!. Here’s Modern Vintage Gamer (Carbon Engine developer) on those, at 2 minutes 17 seconds:

I've been busy...

Square Enix was trying to attract people to make new Gex games through Collective.

@Amstrad

The closest thing we seem to be getting right now is stuff put on things like Nintendo’s Virtual Console and the occasional release of the ‘mini’ style consoles.

There are companies putting up older games in the online stores of modern consoles, such as HAMSTER’s Arcade Archives or M2’s work on the recent revival of the Sega Ages brand. For hardware outside of mini consoles, I posted earlier this week about Blaze Entertainment; Evercade has been their line of cartridge-based devices licensing older games for emulation as well as indie games. They announced a new brand of handhelds targeting a younger audience which will be compatible with Evercade cartridges.