Retro Gaming News
“A return to big shooters is probably unlikely”. Steve Ellis and David Doak made their names at companies like Rare and Free Radical Design, but their latest venture – MindFuel Games – is a decidedly lower-key affair. The small studio has just announced its first game, Beyond Words, which feels like a mix between Scrabble…
Handles sprite scaling and rotation. Think every little secret about Street Fighter II has been discovered? Well, you’d be wrong, as a new debug menu has been found in the ‘Turbo‘ version of the game. TurboAnnihilate is the one who made the discovery, unearthing a debug menu for sprite scaling and rotation. Read the full…
“He was making $30,000 a year”. Mark Cerny’s career has taken him to Atari, Crystal Dynamics, Universal Interactive Studios, Naughty Dog, Insomniac and Sony, but one of his most interesting places of employment has to be Sega. Speaking on Simon Parkin’s My Perfect Console podcast, Cerny – the lead architect behind the PS4, PS Vita,…
You know the day-one thrill of unboxing an 8-bit Mario Pop—the colors leap, the corners stay razor-sharp, nostalgia fires on all cylinders. Keep that mint-fresh joy intact. The 2026 line of Funko Pop protectors uses rigid 0.50 mm PET, roughly 40 percent thicker than yesterday’s 0.35 mm sleeves, to shrug off drops and stop UV…
A “first look” at the patch has just been released. A PS2 on-rails shooter game based on the popular manga/anime series Gunslinger Girl is set to get a fan translation from the translation team at Hilltop Works, allowing players to experience the title with English subtitles. Gunslinger Girl, in case you’re unfamiliar with it, originally…
“People around me gradually began to see me as ‘the guy who sings’”. Takenobu Mitsuyoshi is famous for his vocal contributions to classic Sega titles like Daytona USA and Sega Rally Championship, and has revealed to Time Extension contributor Ollie Barder that his legendary career as “the guy who sings” happened almost by accident. In…
Coming this Winter. We have some good news for English fans of Bandai Namco’s Idolmaster series. A new fan translation patch is currently in the works for The Idolmaster SP, the 2009 entry in the idol raising simulation/rhythm series for the PlayStation Portable. Read the full article on timeextension.com Coming this Winter. We have some…
“Nice of him, that compliment (in my mind anyway)”. Gregg Mayles recently announced his departure from Rare after 36 years, which means the brains behind such classics as Battletoads, Donkey Kong Country and Banjo-Kazooie is no longer with the legendary British studio. While he’s very much focused on his future, Mayles is equally keen to…
Includes Zan II: Spirits, Zan III: Spirits, and Sangokushi Seishi: Tenbu Spirits. Edia has announced another compilation of Telenet Japan games. This time, focusing primarily on Wolf Team’s Zan series of Japanese-set simulation titles, which see players stepping into the role of a warlord tasked with commanding an army around a battlefield (thanks, Gematsu, for…
Fan-made effort is looking promising, though. Square’s Secret of Mana (known as Seiken Densetsu 2 in Japan) is one of my personal favourites in the SNES library, so when I heard the news that a fan-made attempt to bring it to another of my beloved consoles – the PC Engine – is underway, I was…