Retro Gaming News
As a “Rocktober” treat. Double Fine has released a previously unseen pitch video of its heavy metal-inspired action-adventure, real-time strategy game Brütal Legend, to celebrate “Rocktober” — the time of the year when Tim Schafer gets together with fans to matchmake against one another in multiplayer to mark the game getting one year older. The…
“It feels like the right time to start giving the SuperGrafx some love”. Back when arcade games were the cutting edge of gaming technology, the quality of subsequent home ports could make or break a console in the eyes of hardcore gamers. During the NES era, conversions of coin-ops were almost always compromised visually and…
Launches next month! A new indie game inspired by the Mega Man Battle Network series is set to launch next month on Steam. BerserkBoy Games’ Berserk B.I.T.S is being described as an “an idle-rpg, auto-battler, chip-collecting game” and is a spin-off to the 2024 title Berserk Boy. Read the full article on timeextension.com Launches next…
Former Sony staffer reflects on 30 years of PlayStation. Sony’s PS1 turned 30 at the end of last year, and this year marks the 30th anniversary of the console’s launch in the West. Former President of SIE Worldwide Studios for Sony Interactive Entertainment, Shuhei Yoshida, has been speaking to GamesIndustry.biz about the arrival of Sony’s…
I realized a long time ago that video games were great for releasing a lot of pent-up emotions which prevented me from ending up in jail, or worse… Malicious ramblings from the man who’s played it all you plaster some pedestrians to the pavement, you’re brain dead! No, what they’ve done is to give you…
“Way better than the AI slop people were trying to push before”. Remember the craze for AI-generated pixel-based RPG scenes not so long ago? AI Bros gleefully circulated these short clips online whilst trying to maintain that they’d “created a new genre” in gaming – clearly they weren’t around in the ’90s, when most first-person…
You can play Wasp Rider: Royal Delivery’s 1/2 demo right now! A new demo has just been released for the upcoming Game Boy Color platformer Wasp Rider: Royal Delivery — a promising title that puts players in control of a grumpy, chain-smoking ant who enjoys swinging his pickaxe and beating up pesky mushrooms. Developed by…
Delisoba Deluxe was never sold in retail stores back in the day. The Saturn is no stranger to expensive games; many of the console’s best titles were only distributed in Japan, and those that did get a Western release were often subject to tiny print runs, which has driven up their value in recent years….
We recently dug up some new artwork from the unrealized project. Earlier this year, Ziggurat Interactive rereleased the 2003 mech-based shooter Battle Engine Aquila across PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. Originally developed by Lost Toys, a studio created by a group of former Bullfrog developers, the game was only one of two titles the company…
“We will only issue this warning once”. PS2 emulation on Android is in a pretty good place these days, with NetherSX2 providing great performance on phones, handhelds and tablets. However, given the popularity of Sony’s console, there’s always interest in new emulators, and it seems that a rather shady individual is taking advantage of this…