Retro Gaming News
Gaming communities are known for embracing quick and clever ways to connect. From event check-ins to exclusive content drops, QRcode technology has quietly become a common thread. With different types of QR codes, developers can link digital content to physical spaces or special campaigns, turning a simple scan into part of the gameplay. Linking Real-World…
Even when arcade cabinets started showing up in malls, pizza shops, and corner stores, they didn’t just offer entertainment. They created little hubs of competition and excitement where people gathered with pockets full of change and the hope of making it further than the last time. You’d see strangers leaning in to watch someone tackle…
Featuring ActRaiser, Eye of the Beholder, Breath of Fire, & Chrono Trigger. Over the last decade or so, Bitmap Books has established itself as one of the leading publishers of video game books. In the past, the UK-based publisher has released books on a range of retro topics, covering everything from Japanese role-playing games to…
I’ve just found out by looking through the itch io website, that OzzyOuzo is currently working on a new remake of Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja (a.k.a. Dragonninja) by Data East for the NEO GEO. In fact they have stated that this isn’t just a remake, but a tribute to a cult classic, that would take…
Junior, Senior. What was the first video game you ever played? This might be an easier question for some of you to answer than others, especially if you’re under the age of 30; chances are, there was a console of some description in your house during your formative years, owned by an older sibling or…
Rayman Lum’o’grams has a demo out now! With the Rayman series officially hitting 30 years of age, Ubisoft has been marking the occasion with concept art, in-game events, updates about the future of the series, and rereleases of older titles. However, it isn’t the only one celebrating, with the fan-hosted Rayman Alive 2025 event also…
“We’ve got to put ourselves out there”. According to a report by Women in Games, around 22% of the games industry workforce is female, and the higher up the chain to executive level, that percentage drops to 16% within the business’s top 15 game companies. This is something that Maya Rogers, president and CEO of…
Complete with a new soundtrack. It’s amazing to think that Ubisoft’s Rayman series is now 30 years old – it feels like only yesterday that we were gazing at screenshots of the Jaguar version in video game magazines – but time stops for nobody, not even limbless cartoon heroes. To celebrate the occasion, Ubisoft has…
“We’ve seen that this work can go better than ours”. Back in 2022, we reported on the fact that a homebrew coder by the name of Retro Encoder was porting Data East’s legendary 1988 RoboCop arcade game to the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive. The project went somewhat quiet until very recently, when Retro Encoder…
‘Dacholer’ & ‘Kick Boy’ arrive tomorrow. Following last week’s release of the early Taito game Steel Worker, Hamster seems to be sticking with the theme of the early 80s, revealing that it will be reissuing Nichibutsu’s football-inspired action games Dacholer and Kick Boy later this week. Both games were originally released in arcades back in…