Retro Gaming News
Gaming communities once lived in arcades, spaces filled with the steady hum of CRT monitors and the familiar clink of quarters. Players formed rivalries around high score leaderboards and built friendships in the warm glow of cabinet screens. While those neon-lit halls are less common today, the drive to connect has never disappeared. It has…
A $300 million black hole in handheld form. As much as I love modern-day gaming hardware, it’s all a little too safe for my liking. Platform holders like Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft have a stranglehold on the industry now, and, outside of the likes of Valve, AYANEO and ROG – all of whom are producing…
Talk to robots or conduct cruel experiments with electricity. The Japanese developer 72Studio and its publisher Room6 have announced that it will be releasing a new retro-inspired visual novel called BatteryNote on Steam next month on October 10th (thanks Famitsu!). The short sci-fi themed adventure game sees players step into the role of a mechanic…
New York, NY (September 20, 2022) – Atari® — one of the world’s most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers — will open minting for a new NFT collaboration with the Brazilian pop culture artist Butcher Billy. The collection of 2,600 unique NFTs, based on 15 original artworks, celebrates Atari’s 50th Anniversary. Each fine…
“We looked at it and said, ‘We don’t get it. We don’t know what this is.’”. Now we are a couple decades or so removed from the original launch of Pokémon in the West, it’s hard to imagine there ever being a point where people were unsure about the possibility of it taking off outside…
“They had an early draft of a Resident Evil movie from Romero, but it was not good”. Over the years, the Resident Evil series has inspired a large number of films, and even a Netflix TV show, with the latest news being that the series is set for another adaptation from Zach Cregger (the director…
“Every game doesn’t need a remake”. Yesterday, it was confirmed that Forever Entertainment’s long-delayed Panzer Dragoon II Zwei remake will be playable at this year’s TGS. Originally announced all the way back in 2018, the game soon vanished from release schedules – so much so that we even asked what had happened to it back…
Video Hustler arrives tomorrow! Konami’s early arcade billiards game Video Hustler (known as Lil’ Hustler in the West) is coming to Nintendo Switch, PS4, Switch 2, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S tomorrow (September 11th) as part of Arcade Archives. Released in arcades back in 1981, the game is sometimes described as “a simplified version of…
“The first fully open-source FPGA retro-emulation handheld”. Eli Lipsitz‘s FPGA-based Game Boy clone, Game Bub, has hit crowdfunding and is already well on its way to achieving its target. Powered by the Artix XC7A100T FPGA, the Game Bub runs physical Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance cartridges, and supports original accessories, like…
Rolling start! Shinobi: Art of Vengeance recently hit modern-day systems and is an excellent update of Sega’s legendary ninja-based action series. Developed by Sega and French studio Lizardcube, the game is a 2D action platformer which places franchise protagonist Joe Musashi very much in the spotlight – although he remains relatively mute throughout the adventure,…