Retro News

“Hard to believe”. Japanese publication denfaminicogamer.jp recently interviewed the heads of two of France’s leading game development studios, and one surprising element ties them together – they didn’t play Nintendo growing up. Guillaume Broch (CEO and creative director of Sandfall Interactive, the developer of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33) and Ben Fiquet (CEO and art/creative director…

Including Maximum Surge, Prize Fighter, and Slam City With Scottie Pippin. Limited Run Games’ CEO Josh Fairhurst has personally obtained the rights to several old FMV games, originally created by the Night Trap developer Digital Pictures. The news was shared on September 5th, with William Mesa, the founder of Flash Film Works (the Visual Effects…

The Dream Color Plus will be shown off this month. It’s a pretty exciting time to be a Dreamcast fan. The console is getting some serious attention when it comes to accessories, such as the Octopus Fight Stick, D6 controller and not one but two new ‘next gen’ VMUs. It yurns out we might also…

Penned by GamesIndustry.biz veteran James Batchelor. Author and former GamesIndustry.biz scribe James Batchelor has just announced that he’s written an unofficial history of the Pokémon video game franchise, and it’s coming out early next year. Published by White Owl Books, The History of the Pokémon Games will profile over 150 different games and will feature…

“It’s bizarre that Musk would not recognise where he sits in the Deus Ex universe”. The co-writer of the original Deus Ex has indulged in a pretty sizeable rant about the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, and pointed out his discomfort at the fact that Musk considers the game to be one of his favourites….

“The simulator had to be realistic but also drivable”. In the games industry, there are names which have been around for so long they feel like part of the furniture: Shigeru Miyamoto, Peter Molyneux, Sid Meier, Warren Spector – these are individuals who have remained part of the gaming conversation for decades and continue to…

Gotta answer ’em all! It’s that time of year again folks. We would love to ask you some questions and would greatly appreciate it if you could take the time to respond to our anonymous survey. Why is this important to us? Our websites survive mainly due to those who choose to advertise their games…

“I really wanted to lean into the pinball thing”. A small group of developers are currently hard at work on a promising new pinball-inspired platformer that will “soon” be receiving a demo for your Game Boy Color. Buzz Bumper originally came to our attention over this past weekend after one of its developers, the programmer…

“I hope they have an option to switch back to the original sprites”. A few weeks ago, Nightdive Studios and Atari revealed during the Opening Night Live showcase for Gamescom that it was working on a remaster of LucasArts’ 1997 first-person shooter Outlaws, as well as its expansion Handful of Missions. Featuring a Wild West…