Retro News

More carts are set to enter “legacy” status soon. Blaze Entertainment, the company behind the Evercade series of consoles, has announced that three more Evercade carts are set to be retired next year, due to their licenses expiring. These carts include: Intellivision Collection 1, Intellivision Collection 2, and IREM Arcade 1 Read the full article…

The announcement was made earlier today. The developer and publisher 3Goo announced earlier today that they are planning to release a Nintendo Switch 2 edition of The Rumble Fish 2, Dimps’ cult classic fighting game that first hit the arcades back in 2005 (h/t: Gosokkyu). This version appears to be exclusive to Japan (unlike the…

Courtesy of ININ Games. After a minor tease yesterday, ININ Games has officially revealed that it is working on a new version of the SNES shoot-em-up R-Type III: The Third Lightning, called R-Type Dimensions III, which is set to be developed in close cooperation with Tozai Games and Irem. The game is slated to release…

“What if Symphony of the Night took place in Mexico?”. Earlier today, a brand new trailer was released as part of the 2025 Latin American Games Showcase for Mariachi Legends, an upcoming action platformer that’s being described as “What if Symphony of the Night took place in Mexico?” The game is the latest Metroidvania from…

‘Karous’ launched on the console in 2007. Milestone Inc.’s Sega Naomi-powered vertical shoot ’em up, Karous, is getting a rerelease on Steam next year, courtesy of the developer and publisher RS34. It will be released on January 22nd, 2026, and will reportedly include a full English localization. Karous was originally released for arcades back in…

File this under “oddly satisfying”. At last night’s Wholesome Snack: The Game Awards Edition 2025 showcase, the publisher TinyBuild and developer Mandragora announced a new narrative-based simulation game, called ReStory, that will let players run their very own electronics repair shop in Japan to dismantle, clean, and fix a bunch of nostalgic devices. This includes…

We’ll take them all, thanks! Sega and the keyboard and accessory manufacturer Higround announced plans earlier this week for a new range of keyboards for your PC, inspired by Sonic the Hedgehog & the Sega Dreamcast (Thanks Sonic City). The two companies have previously collaborated before, joining forces back in 2022, to release a range…

Konami’s ‘Roc ‘N Rope’ is coming to consoles this week. This week’s Arcade Archives release is Konami’s “wire-action” title Roc ‘N Rope, an early arcade game from the creator of the Ghosts ‘n Goblins series and Bionic Commando and the co-creator of Resident Evil, Tokuro Fujiwara. Released in 1983, Roc ‘N Rope was one of…

To be announced this Winter. It looks like there may be some exciting news around the corner for fans of Japanese feature phone games. That’s because G-Mode Co. Ltd (the publisher behind the G-Mode Archives+ series of retro reissues of old Japanese mobile games) is currently teasing a couple of big announcements over the next…