Retro Gaming News
DUVALL, Washington – Oct. 29, 2025 – Get ready to type your way to victory! After eight years of tweaking and fine- tuning, one-man studio Elecornreleases Keys of Fury, the high-octane retro-style beat ’em up typing game, on PC via Steam Monday, Nov. 24! Take on the role of Tai Ping, a skilled key-fu master,…
“Even if that doesn’t happen, you have $50 million worth of assets”. Earlier this year, the DOOM and Quake co-creator John Romero, along with his studio Romero Games, made the shocking announcement online that its publisher (heavily implied to be Microsoft) had pulled the funding for its next project — a new first-person shooter from…
Valve finally pulled the plug. The Dota Pro Circuit — that flawed, bureaucratic, occasionally beautiful mess — is gone. In its place? A wild west of third-party tournaments, inconsistent formats, and a promise that “freedom” will spark creativity. Sounds nice on paper. But anyone paying attention knows what’s really happening: we’ve traded structure for chaos….
“Pure, unadulterated love for the NES, packaged in an unofficial history book”. Ninty Media, the publisher behind GameBook, GameBook Color and GameBook Advance, is preparing to release a new tome which celebrates Nintendo’s first true home console, the NES. “We’ve been making books for more than 5 years now, with Paul Murphy (Ninty Media’s owner)…
Once upon a time in Portugal… Loading Studios, not happy to secure a spot in their country’s video gaming history by producing the first Portuguese physical Game Boy release Alentejo: Tinto’s Law earlier this year, is now returning to the 8-bit fray with a bigger sequel. Alentejo: The Tinto and the Ugly once again casts…
Announcing the release date of “Arcade Archives SCION” “Arcade Archives 2 SCION” HAMSTER Corporation (Head Office: Tokyo-to, Setagaya-ku; CEO: Satoshi HAMADA; referred to below as “HAMSTER”) is happy to announce that “SCION” will be released for Nintendo Switch™, PlayStation®4, Nintendo Switch™ 2, PlayStation®5 and Xbox Series X|S. The game will be available digitally on October…
The company is now gathering feedback online. Barely two days have passed since Retroid revealed the Retroid Pocket 6 in a YouTube announcement, and it already looks like the company is set to make some changes to the device’s design following some negative feedback from commenters online. The landing page for pre-orders went live earlier…
“Enjoy this KOF board game with lots of references to the series”. A translation patch has been released for the 2000 Neo Geo Pocket Color title King of Fighters: Battle de Paradise. Based on the world of King of Fighters and other SNK properties, this digital board game showcases four new characters – Yu G,…
The 1984 shoot ’em up ‘Scion’ arrives this week. This week’s Arcade Archives release has been revealed to be a 1984 shoot ’em up from Seibu Denshi, the company that would later change its name to Seibu Kaihatsu and become famous for games like the Cabal-esque shooter Dynamite Duke (1989) and the vertical scroller Raiden…
“I actually did not expect to meet that goal”. If you were around in the late ’90s and you owned a PC then chances are you encountered ZSNES, one of the first retro emulators to really break into the mainstream. Coded by zsKnight, the emulator was astounding for 1997 – not only did it offer…