Retro Gaming News
The artist is officially unretired & available to work on new projects. Miki Higashino is rightly regarded as a legend in the video game music space, having been deeply involved in the creation of plenty of unforgettable soundtracks over the years. At Konami, for instance, she was responsible for providing music for a number of…
‘Don’t worry, we have all regions covered’. RetroRemake, the developer behind the popular SuperStation line, are teasing what appears to be a new product: an FPGA Super Nintendo/SNES console, currently codenamed “SSNT/SuperFPGA” This morning, RetroRemake (R2) co-founder Taki Udon posted a less-than-cryptic image of the ungainly NTSC SNES’ Reset button, along with the simple sentence…
Don’t Panic. Manufacturer Panic has urged all Playdate owners to ensure that the firmware on their hand-cranked handheld is updated ahead of October 15. On that day, the Secure Certificate for older versions will expire, rendering them unable to connect to the Playdate servers. Read the full article on timeextension.com Don’t Panic. Manufacturer Panic has…
“Any ethical hacker would recognise, ‘Oh, this is some guy’s project’”. One of the most exciting developments in the retro gaming scene over the last few years is the rise of recompilation projects, offering players a new way to experience some of their favourite games on modern PC platforms. However, as the number of AI…
Design Room presents an oral history on a true uniquity. The team behind the curious, ethereal, and one-of-a-kind PlayStation release Vib-Ribbon have spoken of the story behind the game’s creation; the uphill battle to get such an abstract project greenlit, produced, and released; and the enduring legacy of not only the game itself, but the…
“I said, ‘Hey, bro, you know, it’s all fun and games!”. One of my favourite anecdotes about the Game Boy (and one I sincerely hope is actually true) is that when a senior Sony executive spotted it, they berated their engineers and claimed it should have been a Sony product, given the company’s success with…
Taking The Initiative. Gameplay footage from the cancelled reboot of Rare’s N64 icon Perfect Dark has surfaced online, offering the world a teasing glimpse at the further adventures of the Carrington Institute and its finest agent, Joanna Dark. Perfect Dark was in development at Xbox subsidiary studio The Initiative, a “super studio” of sorts that…
The clock’s tickin’, dude. Indie outfit Atomic Windmill is pushing toward the completion of a brand new ZX Spectrum game that takes the hazardous and hyper-punctual world of food delivery and transposes it to the outer regions of the galaxy. Space Pizza puts players in the unenviable role of “the galaxy’s fastest, possibly only, interstellar…
Well, the arcade version, at least! It’s time to grab your clubs (the virtual kind anyway), as SNK’s Fighting Golf has just been announced for Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S, as part of Arcade Archives 1 & 2. Known as Lee Trevino’s Fighting Golf outside of Japan, Fighting Golf hit arcades back…
‘When these are gone, they are gone’. RetroRemake has opened pre-orders on a limited range of transparent SuperStation One units. The frosted FPGA consoles are already selling fast, with RetroRemake noting that once all pre-orders are filled, no more of these variant shells will be made available. Currently, the Smoke (black) and Watermelon (pink) editions…