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library of cartridgesOUT NOW: TAITO Alpha Bartop Arcade! The newest member of the Alpha family joins the award-winning Street Fighter and Mega Man Bartop arcades… The TAITO Alpha Bartop Arcade is here, featuring 10 classic TAITO games, including BUBBLE BOBBLE, SPACE INVADERS and more! Much like the Street Fighter and Mega Man Alphas, the TAITO…
“It’s officially that time of year again”. Have game development experience and ever wanted to develop your own Dreamcast game? Now’s your chance. Following last year’s successful Dream Disc ’24 game jam event, preparations are now officially underway for its follow-up, Dream Disc ’25, with the event shaping up to be yet another excellent showcase…
After 20 years, it might be time to upgrade. The Microsoft of today might be guilty of dropping a few clangers when it comes to its Xbox strategy, but back when the 360 was launched, the company got (almost) everything right; it had a robust system with good online infrastructure and some amazing exclusives. However,…
Alongside the 1995 underwater sim ‘Aquanaut’s Holiday’. Earlier today, the Japanese studio Artdink announced a new ‘Game Log’ initiative to release some of its older titles on Nintendo Switch & PC (as spotted by Gematsu), with the first couple of reissues that were revealed being based on games created by Doshin the Giant creator Kazutoshi…
A first for Nintendo and Sony platforms. Following last week’s foray into the ’90s with the release of Namco’s 1996 title Tokyo Wars, Hamster Corp, the company behind Arcade Archives, has decided to return to the ’80s this week, announcing the upcoming release of Konami’s mech-based fighting game Galactic Warriors. Released in arcades in 1985,…
Space Invaders! Bubble Bobble! Rastan! Evercade maker Blaze has expanded its cartridge-based ecosystem in some interesting ways over the past few years, but the one that has hooked me the most personally is the ‘Alpha’ line of bartop arcades. We’ve already had Mega Man and Street Fighter-themed units, and now it’s the turn of Taito…
The news was revealed on his sister’s Instagram page. Kazuki Motoyama, the Japanese artist and writer behind Kodansha’s Super Mario manga, has passed away aged 69, as recently confirmed by his sister on Instagram. If you happen to be an avid fan of Nintendo’s world-famous mustachioed plumber, beyond just his appearance in the video games,…
Update: Zelda’s Adventure DX is now available. While the Philips CD-i titles Zelda: Faces of Evil and Zelda: Wand of Gamelon are relatively well-known, the third outing on the system – 1996’s Zelda’s Adventure – is less famous, and some would argue that’s for a good reason – it’s pretty terrible. However, that hasn’t stopped…
Stern Pinball and AMC Networks Invite Pinball Players to Survive The Walking Dead Remastered, Available Now CHICAGO, IL – November 4, 2025 – Today, Stern Pinball, Inc., the largest designer and manufacturer of pinball games in the world, in partnership with AMC Networks revealed and released The Walking Dead Remastered – a technologically advanced version of…
“All of the IP just scattered in the wind”. Acclaim, the publisher behind some of the biggest commercial hits of the 1990s, was recently resurrected – but, as many people were at pains to point out when the announcement was made a while back, the name is the only thing that’s back, as Acclaim’s IP…