Retro Gaming News
“This collaboration marks a significant milestone”. Yesterday, Blaze announced it was refreshing its line of hardware with the Evercade VS-R and EXP-R, both of which will be launched in July alongside a brand-new cartridge which uses “Giga Cart” tech for expanding storage capacity. Blaze has now confirmed that this cart will be Tomb Raider Collection…
Final Doom has been backported, too. The PS1 version of Doom wasn’t the first port of the PC original – it had already been on the Jaguar and 3DO and even SNES by the time it made its way to Sony’s 32-bit console – but it’s one of the most popular, mainly because the PlayStation…
“I’ve waited long enough”. Infidelity, the talented porter who was previously behind the fanmade SNES conversions of Mega Man, Mega Man II, and Mega Man IV, has revealed that he is finally going to give the same treatment to the third entry in the classic series: Mega Man 3. In a recent Twitter post, the…
Here we are with another special announcement, as if any of you remember the 2005 mobile phone game of ‘Doom RPG’; a game developed by Fountainhead Entertainment combining the Doom first-person shooter franchise with role-playing video game elements. Then at some point in the near future, you could be playing Szilárd Biró/BSzili’s port of Doom…
Love Letters was made using the Pulp editor. A particularly creative developer has just proposed to his girlfriend in the most adorable way — by developing a custom game for Panic’s pocket-sized handheld, the Playdate (thanks @Eurogamer for the spot!). Aaron Nielsen, the developer in question, is a former Sea of Thieves game designer, who…
Has been “out of service for several years”. Someone is selling the PlayStation Experience trailer used by Sony back in 2006 to promote its PSP handheld and PS2 home console (thanks, IGN). The trailer was spotted on Facebook Marketplace by Reddit user ArguingMaster, and is festooned with related branding, including posters for ATV Offroad Fury…
Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness was released for the N64 in 1999. Fans have just discovered a new use for the Konami code in Castlevania Legacy of Darkness, almost 25 years after its original release. The Konami code probably needs no introduction, but, we’ll give you a brief recap anyway (just in case). Originally created by…
Amazon leak reveals the new pack. Thanks to an Amazon leak we now know that the first three Tomb Raider games are coming to the Evercade family of systems. The pack will include Tomb Raider, Tomb Raider II and Tomb Raider III. It goes without saying that this collection is sure to be one of…
“After 10 years, it’s finally coming!”. The video game researcher and author Florent Gorges recently revealed that the final two volumes of his “History of Nintendo” series are finally being translated into English. The History of Nintendo — just in case you’ve never heard of it — is a collection of four well-researched books that…
The hack has been dubbed “F-Zero: Vintage Velocity”. Back in November of last year, we told you about a new ROM hack that introduced almost all of the stages from the GBA game F-Zero Maximum Velocity into the SNES original. Well, now it appears that a new group has also done the exact opposite, implementing…