Retro Gaming News
Christmas is a magical time for gamers, and for retro fans it always brings back memories of large boxes under the Christmas tree, gaming treats ready to be unwrapped on a chilly December morning. We’ve all got special Christmas gaming memories – to celebrate this year, we at Antstream Arcade are again sharing our nostalgic…
There’s something magical about firing up an old NES cartridge. That familiar beep, the pixelated graphics that somehow look better than you remember – it’s pure nostalgia fuel. Old School Gamer Magazine gets this completely, and they’ve been documenting why retro gaming isn’t just a fad that’ll fade away. I’ve been reading their work for…
Coming 2026. New Blood Interactive’s Dungeons of Dusk wasn’t only the promising game announcement to come out of last night’s PC Gaming Show, with Freshly Baked Games and Future Friends Games also revealing an exciting new retro-inspired action-RPG, which is set to come to Steam next year. Queen’s Domain, as you might have guessed from…
‘Dungeons of Dusk’ is coming next year. At last night’s PC Gaming Show, New Blood Interactive announced that its modern FPS classic Dusk will be getting an RPG spin-off next year, in 2026. Dungeons of Dusk is described as a “classic turn-based dungeon crawling RPG that takes place canonically between the episodes of the cult…
Are you a bad enough dude to bring it to Sega? Look, Data East’s Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja isn’t a great game – we all know it. However, it seems to have had a disproportionate impact on the world of video games thanks to its cool premise, amusing dialogue with “President Ronnie”, and the…
‘Michigan: Report from Hell’ first released in Japan back in 2004. Speaking to VGC recently, for a yet-to-be-published interview, the Japanese video game creator Goichi Suda (aka: Suda51) shared that he was interested in revisiting Michigan: Report from Hell, a little-known PS2 title from Grasshopper’s early days. Originally launched back in 2004 in Japan, the…
The MSX shooter is about to gets its console debut. If you are interested at all in the history of MSX shoot ’em ups, next week’s EGGCONSOLE title for the Nintendo Switch, Super Laydock Mission Striker, might be of some interest to you. Released in 1987, the vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up from the Hydlide developer…
Camels most certainly included. Jeff Minter is a genuinely remarkable developer. Famous for his twitch gameplay and love of camels, Minter has somehow managed to carve out a niche in what has become an increasingly volatile and unpredictable industry, working with the likes of Atari and Xbox along the way but never losing sight of…
He was 75 years old. The actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, best known for his role as Shang Tsung in the Mortal Kombat franchise, has passed away aged 75 due to complications from a stroke (as confirmed yesterday by the Hollywood Reporter). Originally born in Tokyo, Tagawa would live in various places across the US during his…
“A rare opportunity to secure a historically important piece of Sega’s arcade lineage”. A super-rare version of the SegaSonic the Hedgehog arcade machine is going under the hammer at UK auction house Ewbank’s, and it could fetch as much as £40,000 / $53,000. The SegaSonic the Hedgehog Multi Cabinet Swing was originally housed in Sega…