Retro Gaming News
“Coming soon” to Steam. Earlier this week, the UK indie developer Sinclair Strange and the video game music label/game publisher Scarlet Moon announced that they are collaborating on a new game that pays tribute to the Sega Master System and “the glorious 8-Bit days”. Sir Noggin is a colourful new platformer that is “coming soon”…
The game company, that is – not the singer or the famous wrestler. The Japanese game developer and publisher Sting is bringing out a new collection for the Nintendo Switch later this year, featuring four titles from the company’s post-apocalyptic series, Baroque (thanks Gematsu!). The collection, which is called Baroque-Ya, will release on December 18th…
Explore Castle Lexington to discover your true power. While Castlevania: Symphony of the Night has inspired countless Metroidvanias over the years, few have come as close to capturing the same look and feel as Konami’s 1997 classic as Eternal Soul (also known as The Story of Magnadyne: Eternal Soul), an indie title currently in development…
“True greatness doesn’t need to be big. It just needs to be bold”. Commodore has been in the news quite a bit lately, thanks to the purchase of the brand and many of its related intellectual properties by YouTuber Christian Simpson. However, Commodore’s most powerful home computer line, the Amiga, is not part of that…
The future of iGaming growth lies in multilingual markets. From Brazil’s booming regulated sector to Japan’s unique digital landscape and the high-growth economies of MENA, operators cannot rely on a one-size-fits-all approach. Regional differences in culture, regulation, and player behaviour demand precise, localised strategies. That is why global operators turn to Absolute Digital Media, a…
“SEGA’s position amounts to accusing a charity of theft”. We recently reported that Sega used the British Police to recover a selection of dev kits and consoles it had “negligently disposed of” from a business owner who resells items from office clearances. The person in question purchased the items, along with a selection of undumped…
“I felt such a strong respect for the original”. Video games have a long history of being adapted into musicals in Japan, and one of the most recent examples is “Castlevania” ~Awakening under the Moon~ by Takarazuka Revue. The musical based on Konami’s famous vampire-hunting series has been running for a little while now and…
“I heard Nakatsuji-san mutter, ‘So that’s Gunpei Yokoi…’”. Nintendo has not been accustomed to failure over the past few decades, so it was a surprise to many to learn that the Kyoto-based giant is embracing one of its most costly failures: the Virtual Boy. Reading the recent news story on the value of Athena’s Virtual…
Includes ‘El Viento’, ‘Earnest Evans’, and ‘Anett Futatabi’. Edia has revealed that it will be launching the Telenet Revive project, the Earnest Evans Collection, this December in Japan, across Nintendo Switch, PS5, and PS4 (thanks Gematsu!). This collection will bring together the three titles that make up Wolf Team’s “Anett and Earnest” trilogy, including the…
ModRetro wants it to be the “cheapest generalized device” for open source retro gaming. After years of emulation woes, the Nintendo 64 has found a new lease of life in the world of FPGA retro gaming, and has not one but two hardware clones on the horizon: the Analogue 3D and ModRetro M64. According to…