Retro Gaming News
“Legally, you’re only allowed to do cover versions of tracks that have already had a release”. In a recent AMA on YouTube, the former Rare composer Grant Kirkhope gave some insight into the making of Rare Treats: Donkey Kong 64 Revisited — his upcoming remix album that will see him rearranging classic tracks from his…
The change was spotted via the third-party website SteamDB. Activision’s Deadpool game has just received a mysterious Steam 7 years after it was delisted from the service, according to the third party website SteamDB. And it’s not alone either. As spotted by the Twitter user @Knoebelbroet, who originally broke the news (before it was picked…
“I’ve dumped over a grand into making this port, not including labor”. Update : The programmer Rich Whitehouse has revealed on social media that BigPEmu — the Atari Jaguar emulator he created — will be arriving on the App Store later today (November 21st), after being officially approved for iOS/iPadOS. It will be priced at…
The film will be available on digital & demand in the US & Canada. Update #2 : Brandon Salisbury’s documentary on George A. Romero’s unproduced Resident Evil film will be released on January 7th across digital and on-demand in the US and Canada, the horror publication Bloody Disgusting is reporting. The film will be distributed…
“The Evercade Alpha is set for a global release between November 28th and December 16th”. Blaze, the company behind the Evercade series of retro platforms, released an update earlier today talking about its upcoming products scheduled to launch in November and December. This includes information on the expected shipping dates for the Evercade Alpha, the…
Terminator 2: Judgment Day was released in the arcades back in 1991. The FPGA developer @_atrac17 has shared some new footage of @pr4mod‘s upcoming Terminator 2: Judgment Day release for Analogue Pocket, revealing that it will include Gun4IR lightgun support. Back in September, @_atrac17 had announced that the pair would be making a bunch of…
“I’m pretty gutted that Zero never got finished”. The WipEout series was, at one point, considered to be a dazzling showcase for new Sony hardware. The original game accompanied the PS1’s release in the West and arguably did a lot of sell the console to sceptical punters, while WipEout Pure and WipEout 2048 were jaw-dropping…
As much as we love the authentic feel of playing retro games on original systems on the TVs they were originally designed for, such an approach is decreasingly viable. Hardware has a limited life span, and tracking down working games and systems after a certain point becomes untenable for anyone on a budget. Enter emulation,…
“We want it to be the same experience for everyone”. Retro Games Ltd. can’t seem to catch a break when it comes to The Spectrum — its new recreation of the ZX Spectrum that is set to release later this month on November 22nd. First, retailers including Smyth Toys leaked the announcement of the machine…
Pre-orders are open now. Atari has announced it will be publishing a new 7800+ compatible port of the Miner 2049er sequel Bounty Bob Strikes Back! Miner 2049er was an incredibly influential early platforming game created by the programmer Bill Hogue and Big Five Software that saw players take control of the mountie Bounty Bob as…