Retro Gaming News
Tekken 8 co-director Kohei Ikeda has paid tribute to the location. We have more bad news for fans of Japanese arcades. Namco’s Sugamo location has announced on social media that it will be closing its doors next year, on March 22nd, 2026 (as highlighted by denfaminicogamer). Read the full article on timeextension.com Tekken 8 co-director…
Available now. Here’s a piece of news we definitely weren’t expecting. Yesterday, Ratalaika Games and Shinyuden announced out of the blue on social media that they were releasing a new “restored” edition of Wolf Team’s dinosaur-themed pinball game Dino Land on consoles & PC, and it’s already available now across Steam, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox…
Joins the Arcade Archives range this week. Hamster has revealed that Namco’s 1995 arcade title The Outfoxes is coming to its Arcade Archives range. Designed by Masateru Umeda and powered by the NB-2 arcade hardware, The Outfoxies is a fighting game where you control one of seven characters, with the objective being to defeat your…
Rollhub continues its end-of-year bounty rollout with the launch of Advanced Dice Bounties, going live on December 29, 2025. This promotion is part of Rollhub’s broader holiday campaign, designed to highlight the platform’s most refined inhouse games while maintaining full transparency and consistency across all bounty mechanics. Dice is one of Rollhub’s internally developed titles,…
Thanks to a new fan translation patch. A fan translation patch for the Dreamcast version of Di Gi Charat Fantasy is now available to download online, allowing English-speaking fans of the anime mascot another platform on which to experience the visual novel-style game. Di Gi Charat, or “Dejiko”, in case you’ve never heard of the…
“He said to me, ‘Why don’t you just tell us to make porn?’”. We recently spoke to industry veteran Mike Fischer, who has worked at Namco, Xbox and Sega during a glittering career in the video game industry, and he has shone a light on the internal conflicts that took place within Sega when the…
Industry veteran Mike Fischer runs us through his years at Sega, Namco, & Xbox. The marketing expert and former video game exec Mike Fischer may not exactly be a household name in the world of gaming, but we’d argue he has had a more exciting career than most working in his respective field. Over the…
Sad times. We’re sad to report that Google has discontinued support for the Dreamcast’s PlanetWeb 3.0 web browser. While Sega shut down Dreamcast’s servers many years ago, resourceful fans have been getting consoles online for some time now – and even creating private servers for many of the machine’s games in the process. Read the…
“We were trying to think dynamically on how we could make it more of a destination”. With Sega’s cable-based digital distribution service, Sega Channel, being in the news once again, thanks to the Video Game History Foundation’s recent discovery of over 100 previously undumped ROMS, we thought we’d share something interesting with you. Over the…
If you remember the 1980’s hit game of Tetris then you’ll be pleased to know that as of this morning, we have been informed that JOTD has released an update to the 1988 Arcade version of Tetris for the Commodore Amiga 1200. As in the words of the creator “A transcode of Atari Tetris arcade…