All Things Retro
A demo has just been released for Steam. A Steam demo was released yesterday for the next PC game from the developers Melos Han-Tani and Marina Kittaka — the creators of Anodyne, Anodyne 2, Even the Ocean, and Sephonie. Angeline Era is a 3D homage to classic action role-playing games like Ys & Hydlide and…
“Is this a wind-up?”. Earlier today, UK outlet The Guardian published its ranked list of the best UK video game magazines, an event which has caused a fair amount of activity online as disgruntled 40-somethings seek to furiously complain that their favourite childhood mag didn’t get a higher placing. However, one reaction to the list…
Orchestrated OST! Remixed monsters! New items! New dungeons! Enix’s Dragon Quest is one of the most important JRPGs ever made and can be credited (alongside Final Fantasy) with turning the genre into the huge commercial proposition it is in Japan today. However, given that the game’s Western release – under the title Dragon Warrior –…
Coming Spring 2025 to PS4, PS5, and Switch. Earlier today, the retailer/video game distributor Beep announced on social media that it will be making a follow-up to 2021’s Cotton Reboot! called Cotton Reboot! High Tension! According to the game’s website, it will be a side-scrolling shooter similar to its predecessor and is planned to be…
“After 30 Years…”. Sales figures, as we all know, are often used as the ultimate metric for judging the success or failure of a particular piece of gaming hardware, and no console sums this up better than the Sega Saturn. Released in 1994 after Sega had successfully challenged the seemingly unstoppable Nintendo with its Mega…
“Here are, arguably, the 15 (ish) best”. UK media outlet The Guardian has ranked the 15 best UK video game magazines of all time, and Future’s long-running EDGE has come out on top. Penned by acclaimed journalist and author Keith Stuart – who has actually written for several of the publications in the list –…
Coming to PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and PC. If you’re a fan of old-school beat ’em ups like Streets of Rage, Final Fight, and Alien vs. Predator, you’ll likely be just as excited as us to hear about Fallen City Brawl — a new hard-hitting beat ’em up that is…
Video Games — Auction Preview by Heritage Editorial VALARIE’S PICKS Valarie Spiegel Managing Director, Video Games ValarieS@HA.com Heritage Auctions 2801 W. Airport Freeway Dallas, Texas 75261 1-800-872-6467 Ext. 1994 1. Super Mario Bros. – VGA 90+ NM+/MT Unopened [Barcode, FF Logo, Later Production], Famicom Nintendo 1985 JPN My appreciation for the Famicom Super Mario…
BS Detective Club was originally distributed for the Nintendo Satellaview in 1997. When Nintendo announced back in 2019 that it was releasing a pair of remakes of the Famicom Detective Club games The Missing Heir and The Girl Who Stands Behind — and better yet that they were being published internationally — it initially came…
The release will mark 10 years of the series. Update : Hamster has revealed that the next Namco game coming to Arcade Archives will be the vertical shoot-em-up F/A (otherwise known as Fighter & Attacker). The announcement was made during today’s livestream on Hamster’s YouTube channel (1:41:36), with the game being planned to start distribution…