Retro Gaming News
Some game ideas refuse to retire. The three-reel format still has enough pull to survive new hardware and decades of changing player habits, which says plenty about good design today. Classic slot-style games have one big advantage: you know what to do the second the reels appear. Spin them, watch where the symbols land and…
I’m just not sure about that ‘Extreme Green’ colour… Retro Fighters has iterated on its core range of controllers so many times I’m honestly in danger of losing track; when the Brawler64 Pro ($69.99) sample arrived in the office, I was certain I’d covered a similar pad not so long ago (and I had –…
“I have no recollection of this lawsuit or the claims around it ever taking place.”. A few years before the Dundee-based developer DMA Design created the hugely successful open-world crime series Grand Theft Auto, it produced an offbeat racing game featuring a bunch of sentient unicycles as its main characters, in collaboration with Nintendo. Uniracers…
Look at the little lad fly… A homebrew developer has released an unofficial, pint-sized recreation of a ’90s Kirby game that never was. Available now on NovaStar’s itch.io, Kid Kirby is an imagining of the superstar’s unrealised SNES adventure, which was cancelled way back in 1995. Kid Kirby was originally conceived as a key title…
0% Crystals 0% Crashers 100% Clowns. One of my personal favourite gaming heroes makes their grand return this week, as Universal’s madcap platformer Mr. Do!’s Castle welcomes guests, new and old, to Hamster’s Arcade Archives. Released to arcades in 1983, emblazoned with one of the most punctuated titles of all time, Mr. Do!’s Castle is…
Choosing an online casino often comes down to a handful of practical questions: is the game selection worth the time, are payouts reliable, and does the platform actually work well on a phone. Winbox Malaysia has been gaining attention in Malaysia for answering most of these questions reasonably well, which is why it’s worth a…
Thanks to a nifty fan creation for Tabletop Simulator. This one is for the die-hard Paper Mario-heads within our audience. Decades after its original release, an iQue-published Paper Mario board game, released exclusively in China, has just been translated into English and recreated in the Steam game Tabletop Simulator, giving more people the chance to…
Yomi a physical edition. Publisher Clear River Games has revealed a physical collector’s edition for its upcoming rerelease of the 1995 SNES RPG Terranigma. The “Gaia Edition” is now available to pre-order from the official Clear River Games store, ahead of the RPG’s grand return on PC and consoles in January 2027. The Gaia Edition…
“An entertaining and frequently funny series”. Mike McMahan (Star Trek: Lower Decks) has tackled Sega’s arcade hack-and-slash Golden Axe in TV form, and it’s fair to say that the initial trailer for the series divided fans. While many could appreciate the humorous tone and deep knowledge of the lore, others took issue with the stylised…
Neowiz & Nihon Falcom agree a new deal. Nihon Falcom have signed an agreement with the South Korean developer/publisher Neowiz to bring the RPG The Legend of Heroes II: Prophecy of the Moonlight Witch (known in Japan as The Legend of Heroes III: Shiroki Majo) to PC and consoles globally (h/t: Gematsu). The third game…